Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott ( born May 12, 1977 in Larkhall, Scotland ) is a Scottish snooker player, who won the World Snooker Championship in 2006.
Career
Dott 1994 pro. In 1999 he achieved his most single maximum break of 147 points at the British Open.
In the 2001 /02 season, he reached the Top 16 of the snooker world rankings for the first time. After he was defeated initially four times in the final of a world ranking tournament - at the Scottish Open 1999, British Open 2001, World Cup 2004 and the Malta Cup 2005 - won Graeme Dott his first title at the World Snooker Championship in 2006, defeated in a tight final. Peter Ebdon he can come near to 18:14 frames after he had his opponent after a 15:8 guide still up to 15:13 and 16:14.
The following year he won the China Open. In the final, he beat Jamie Cope in Beijing with 9:5. At the World Cup finals 2007, he suffered the "Curse of Sheffield ": In modern snooker, there is still no player managed to defend his first world title. Dott lost in the first round with Ian McCulloch to 7:10 frames.
Graeme Dott has been married to Elaine since 2003 and has a son with her, Lewis. Elaine is the daughter of his manager Alex Lambie, who died after a long battle with kidney cancer on 16 December 2006. Alex managed Dott since the age of 12. Weeks later his wife suffered a miscarriage. Dott had been suffering from these two events from depression. Such was his participation in the World Snooker Championship 2008 for a long time in question. Only short notice but Dott decided to participate, but lost in the first round against Joe Perry with 7:10. This was his sixteenth lost match in a row. In the world rankings, he fell from the second back to the thirteenth rank.
In 2008, he was then heard from him. On 13 July 2008, he won the Main Tour for not belonging tournament of the World Series of Snooker in Berlin confidently with 6:1 against Shaun Murphy. However, he suffered a further setback when he located in the run up to the Shanghai Masters 2008 broke his arm and thus could not participate in the tournament and then following the Grand Prix. The Curse of the Erstrundenniederlagen in tournaments Main Tour he could escape at the UK Championship in December 2008. Here he won his first game in a Main Tour tournament since August 2007.
A renewed success celebrated the combative Scot at the World Championships 2010 in Sheffield, in which he made it to the finals; But there by 18:13 was defeated by the new world champion Neil Robertson. On his way to the final he defeated in a re- edition of the World Cup final of 2006 Peter Ebdon and then Stephen Maguire, Mark Allen and Mark Selby, who had previously defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan. With his performance as vice - world champion Dott climbed back from 28th place to 13th in the snooker rankings.
At the World Cup 2011 Graeme Dott came with his victories over Mark King ( 10:7 ) and Allister Carter ( 13:11) to the quarterfinals, where he lost but with 5:13 to eventual runner-up world champion Judd Trump. He also came in September 2011 with victories over Mark Davis, Igor Figueiredo and Peter Ebdon in the final of the Brazil Masters, which he won with 0:5 against Shaun Murphy.