The 2002 UK Championship (officially the 2002 PowerHouse UK Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at the Barbican Centre in York, England. The event started on 1 December 2002 and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 7 and 15 December 2002. The sponsor for this year's event was Powerhouse.
Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals to Drew Henry.
Mark Williams won his second UK title in a classic 10âÂÂ9 victory against Ken Doherty, who had reached his second UK final in a row. The highest break of the tournament was 142 made by Ronnie O'Sullivan.
2001 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was the number 1 seed with World Champion Peter Ebdon seeded 2. The remaining places were allocated to players based on the world rankings.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: ã100,000<br/> Runner-up: ã54,000<br/> Semi-final: ã27,250<br/> Quarter-final: ã14,500<br/> Last 16: ã11,500<br/> Last 32: ã9,200<br/> Last 48: ã5,200<br/> Last 64: ã4,175
Last 80: ã2,950<br/> Last 96: ã2,000
Stage one highest break: ã2,000<br/> Stage two highest break: ã10,000
Stage one maximum break: ã5,000<br/> Stage two maximum break: ã25,000
Total: ã746,900