UK Snooker Championship: Who are the favourites?

The competition gets underway on Tuesday

The world’s best snooker players will go head-to-head this week as the UK Snooker Championship heads to Milton Keynes for the first time.

Ding Junhui won the competition for the third time last year, beating Stephen Maguire in the final to claim his first Championship since 2009.

But the 33-year-old is not favoured to claim a fourth title, with our traders pricing him at 18/1 to go all the way.

Elsewhere, Mark Selby is also looking to win the competition for a third time. Having last won in 2016, when he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final, he can be backed at 15/2.

Ahead of the action getting underway tomorrow, we’ve taken a look at some of the favourites to be crowned champion at this year’s UK Snooker Championship.

Judd Trump

The world number one goes into the competition as the slight favourite, priced at 3/1 to lift the trophy in Milton Keynes.

Trump has been drawn in the same quarter as Kyren Wilson and he’ll be looking to avenge his quarter-final defeat from the World Championship earlier this year.

Wilson, who is going at 12/1 to win in Milton Keynes, also beat Trump in the Championship League final last month to take the pair’s head-to-head record to 10-9 in Trump’s favour.

Trump has won the UK Championship just once before, beating Mark Allen in 2011.

But the 31-year-old can hold his nerve when it matters and the 2019 world champion will be determined to add to his 19 ranking titles.