The 2022

UK Seniors Championship The UK Seniors Championship is a snooker tournament, part of the World Seniors Tour. History The event was created in 2017, as a part of the World Seniors Tour. The first UK Senior championship took place in October 2017, and was won by Jimmy W ...

was a seniors' snooker tournament that took place from 4 to 7 January 2022 at the

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in Hull, England. It was the first

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event of the

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Michael Judge Michael Judge (born 12 January 1975 in Dublin) is a professional snooker player from the Republic of Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest rank ...

was the defending champion, having defeated

Jimmy White James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won three seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 ...

4–2 in the 2019 edition of the event. However, Judge lost 1–3 to

Peter Lines Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969) is an English professional snooker player. He has reached the semi-finals of one ranking tournament, the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his highest ranking, 42nd in the world, in 1999. He is the father ...

in the first round. Lines went on to win the tournament, beating

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4–1 in the final. The tournament was the final event in which 1980 World Champion and three-time Masters champion

Cliff Thorburn Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Hi ...

competed. He played his final match against

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on 5 January 2022, eleven days before turning 74.

Tournament draw

Below are the results for the main draw. Seedings are shown in the leftmost boxes, and match winners are denoted in bold.

Final

Century breaks

A total of 2

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s were made during the tournament. * 109

* 102 Wayne Cooper

References

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