Ken Doherty

Ken Doherty ( born September 17, 1969 in Ranelagh, Dublin) is an Irish snooker player.

Career

1989 Doherty won the IBSF World Amateur Championship and the IBSF Under-21 World Cup. The following year he became a professional player.

In his career so far Doherty won six world ranking tournaments. In 1997, he was with a playoff victory over Stephen Hendry World Snooker Champion. He stood two more times in the World Cup final: In 1998 he lost to John Higgins, 2003 against Mark Williams.

His most recent victory at a world ranking tournament celebrated Doherty 2006 at the Malta Cup with a final win over John Higgins. He thereby succeeded to catch up after a 5:8 residue before he won the decisive frame to 9:8. In the Benson & Hedges Masters 2000, he was offered in the final against Matthew Stevens the greatest chance of a maximum break. After 15 recessed red balls and each subsequent black ball lacked the final match on the colors only the last ball he missed out of supposedly simple position from the spot.

After his successful 2006 Doherty was made ​​for the 2006/07 season in the Snooker world rankings behind Stephen Hendry on rank 2, the highest position of his career. But on the achievements of 2006, he was not able in subsequent seasons. He fell after a weak season in 2007/ 08 from the top 16, so he had to compete in ranking tournaments in qualifying.

Ken Doherty is the only snooker player who was both amateur and professional world champion. And besides Peter Ebdon he is the only player who could beat Stephen Hendry in a World Cup final.

26 October 2008 Doherty lost the final of the World Series of Snooker in Warsaw with 4:6 against Ding Junhui.

In his first round match at the Paul Hunter Classic 2012 him the first official maximum break of his career succeeded.

Others

  • 2002 Doherty was nearly blinded in an accident in the bathroom
  • His conspicuous scar on his face is from a fall at his seventh birthday when he fell from a roof hall on a metal trash can
  • During Doherty's game in the World Cup finals in 1997 went to the police in Dublin for three hours, not a single one emergency
  • Since December 2001, Ken Doherty with the Australian psychologist Sarah, with whom he has a son who married
  • In the snooker scene he is known also under the name " The Darling of Dublin ", his second nickname " Crafty Ken " is, however, hardly used

Achievements

Ranking Tournaments

Other tournaments

Snooker season 2006/2007 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship John Higgins (snooker player) Mark Williams (snooker player) 2000 Masters (snooker) Snooker season 2007/2008
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