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  Ken Doherty

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  Ken Doherty is a two-time World Seniors Championship runner-up who won the sport’s biggest prize at the Crucible Theatre in 1997.

  Doherty defeated Stephen Hendry 18-12 to win the World Championship and reached the final twice more in 1998 and 2003 during a professional career that has seen him win six ranking event titles to date.

  ‘The Darling of Dublin’ continues to compete on the World Snooker Tour as well as the World Seniors tour, where he is looking to complete a unique ‘grand slam’ by adding the seniors crown to the World Professional, World Amateur and World Under-21 titles he has already won.

  The Irishman came closest in 2020 when he led Jimmy White 4-0 in the best-of-nine frame final at the Crucible Theatre before agonisingly losing out in a deciding frame to ‘The Whirlwind’.

  Four years later, Doherty reached a second World Seniors Championship final but was this time denied by Brazil’s Igor Figueiredo.

  Doherty won the 2018 UK Seniors Championship in Hull and, in 2024, secured an emotional victory in the Mr Vegas World Seniors Snooker 900 event

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  Ken Doherty

  Irish professional snooker player, 1997 world champion

  For the American decathlon champion, see Ken Doherty (track and field).

  Ken Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player from Ranelagh in Dublin. He is the sport's only world champion from the Republic of Ireland, having won the title in 1997, making him one of just four players from outside the United Kingdom—in addition to Cliff Thorburn from Canada, Neil Robertson from Australia, and Luca Brecel from Belgium—to have won the World Snooker Championship in the sport's modern era. He combines his ongoing playing career with regular commentary and punditry work on televised snooker broadcasts.

  After moving from Dublin to London to pursue his snooker career, Doherty won the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur Championship in 1989. He turned professional the following year and reached the first of his 17 ranking finals at the 1992 Grand Prix, losing 9–10 to Jimmy White. He won the first of his six ranking titles several months later at the 1993 Welsh Open, beat