• Stephen Hendry won the world title for a seventh time, a record in the modern era, beating Ray Reardon and Steve Davis' six titles. Hendry won all his titles in the 1990s while Davis won his six in the 1980s and Reardon won his in the 1970s.^[2]
• During his first round match, Steve James compiled the 500th century break at the Crucible in frame seven.^[3]
• Ronnie O'Sullivan came close to a maximum break in his semi-final match with Hendry. He missed the last pink to the middle pocket and his break ended at 134.^[4]
• O'Sullivan and Hendry made the most century breaks in a single match at the World Championship with eight.^[5] The two players also made 4 centuries in 4 frames, with two tons each, the first time this has happened in any ranking event.
• Dominic Dale scored 167 points in one frame in his match against Nigel Bond. He earned 44 penalty points and then made a century break, setting a record for the highest number of points scored in one frame during professional competition. Dale's record stood for over 22 years until Jimmy Robertson scored 178 points in a single frame at the 2021 Scottish Open.^[6][7]

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[8][9][10]

Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).^{[8][9][11][12]}

There were 53 century breaks in the championship.^[14] The highest break was 142 made by John Higgins and 143 made by both Stephen Maguire and Barry Pinches at the televised and the qualifying stages respectively.^[8]

The qualifying matches were held between 3 January and 20 March 1999 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales.

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Overseas edit

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Round 2–3 edit

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