The York Barbican hosts 128 players, competing in one of snooker’s most historic titles over the next 2 weeks . Round one is played on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. Neil Robertson won the 2020 UK Championship, beating Judd Trump 10-9 in one of snooker’s most dramatic finals. In previous years it has also been won by Ding Junhui , Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby. With the title and a winner cheque of £200,000 players will be determined to reach the finals
Here is an overview of day one Matches
| Andrew Higginson | 4 | v | 6 | Mark Joyce |
| Anthony McGill | 6 | v | 0 | Iulian Boiko |
| David Grace | 6 | v | 2 | Peter Devlin |
| Zhou Yuelong | 6 | v | 1 | Chen Zifan |
| Kyren Wilson | 6 | v | 2 | Soheil Vahedi |
| Jak Jones | 6 | v | 4 | Oliver Lines |
| Lu Ning | 3 | v | 6 | Wu Yize |
| Dominic Dale | 6 | v | 4 | Ashley Carty |
| Scott Donaldson | 4 | v | 6 | Farakh Ajaib |
| Mark Davis | 4 | v | 6 | Ashley Hugill |
| Li Hang | 6 | v | 3 | Mitchell Mann |
| Tom Ford | 6 | v | 1 | Andrew Pagett |
| Stephen Maguire | 6 | v | 3 | Sanderson Lam |
| Chris Wakelin | 8 | v | 2 | Jamie Clarke |
| Shaun Murphy | 5 | v | 8 | Si Jiahui |
| John Higgins | 6 | v | 1 | Michael Georgiou |
