Ken Doherty
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Kenneth Joseph Doherty is an Irish retired professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only world
Doherty in 2012
2011 Paul Hunter Classic
2012 Paul Hunter Classic
Alex Higgins
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Alexander Gordon Higgins was a Northern Irish professional snooker player and a two-time world champion, remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the sport's history. Nicknamed "Hurricane Higgi
Ken Doherty
…interested in snooker when he started to watch the BBC programme Pot Black with his father at eight years old. At the time, Doherty particularly admired Alex Higgins. He received a miniature snooker table as a Christmas present, and soon afterwards began playing on full-sized tables at Jason's Snooker Hall in Ranelagh…
Higgins in 2008
Steve Davis (left) and Alex Higgins in 1988. Higgins wrote in 1987 that, "Playing big match snooker can be as great a turn-on as sex. There's nothing more exhilarating than walking into a room bursting with people to challenge my old enemy, Steve Davis."
At the 1990 World Cup, Higgins threatened his team captain, Dennis Taylor (pictured in 2025 holding the World Championship trophy).