York Barbican Centre ready to host UK Championship until 2013 – Snooker Update
After five years of dormancy, the UK Championship returned to the York Barbican Centre arena in York where it received a lot of support and appreciation from the people.
The people from York were waiting for this moment and a record sale of arena tickets was observed as the snooker lovers were crazy to watch their favourite potters in action during the 2011 UK Championship.
Many big guns of the game were quite happy to be in York as they missed it in the last five years. The participants of the 2011 UK Championship produced some great fireworks at the arena on the table. The environment at the arena was magical where the leading
names were putting up an excellent snooker show.
The return of the UK Championship to York really excites the current UK Champion, Judd Trump and he is all set to defend his title this year. On the other hand, World Snooker Chairman, Barry Hearn, who was in the fore front of the decision to take the event
back to York, is also quite excited about the reception the tournament got in the city.
While speaking to the local media, Trump said, “I’m really pleased that the UK Championship is going back to York. I thought the atmosphere there last year was amazing and it helped inspire me to win the title. There are a lot of snooker fans in and around
York and I’m sure they’ll be back this year to support the best players.”
World Snooker Chairman Barry Hearn added, “Our decision to take the UK Championship back to York last season was inspired.”
With some tremendous display of impressive snooker skills, the former World Snooker Championship runner up from England, Judd Trump and the 2012 Haikou World Open winner, Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen was able to make their way into the final encounter of
the event. The Englishman dominated the match and claimed the title by the score line of 10-8.
It will be exciting for the snooker fans in York now that the UK Championships has returned to the city. All the top players also enjoy York Barbican Centre and usually put up a brilliant display of snooker in the arena.
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