Stephen Hendry
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| birthday | 13th January 1969 (age 51) |
| place of birth | South Queensferry |
| nationality |
 Scotland
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| Nickname (s) | The Golden Boy |
| professional | 1985-2012 |
| Prize money | £ 8,750,581 |
| Highest break | 147 (11 ×) |
| Century Breaks | 775 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | 7th |
| Ranking tournament victories | 36 |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
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| Highest WRL place | 1 ( 90/91 - 97/98 , 06/07 ) |
Stephen Gordon Hendry MBE (born January 13, 1969 in South Queensferry ) is a retired Scottish snooker player . Measured by the number of wins in ranked tournaments, he is one of the most successful players in snooker history. Hendry has set numerous records in his career, some of which have now been set or exceeded. Hendry played most of the Centuries, won most of the tournaments and most of the world titles in Sheffield . In addition, at the age of 21, he was the youngest player to win a world title.
Life
Hendry was born in South Queensferry in what is now the Council Area City of Edinburgh and grew up in neighboring Dalgety Bay , Fife . He began his professional career in 1985 at the age of 16. As early as 1987, he won his first such title at the Grand Prix as the youngest ranking tournament winner to date, which was later undercut by Ronnie O'Sullivan . Hendry led the snooker world rankings without interruption from 1990 to 1997 and dominated the snooker sport during this time. He is the record winner at the World Championships in Sheffield , which he won seven times (1990, 1992-1996, 1999), four times alone with a final victory over Jimmy White . With his first success in 1990 , Hendry was the youngest world champion in snooker history at the age of 21. In the 1990/91 season he set another record with five tournament wins within one season, but he was unable to defend the world title that year. He also won the Masters six times and the UK Championship five times . With 18 tournament victories in Triple Crown events , he is in second place behind O'Sullivan with 20 titles.
With the advent of younger players like Mark Williams , John Higgins or Ronnie O'Sullivan, Hendry's successes became rarer in the late 1990s. After his last World Cup win in 1999 , he only won four ranking tournaments, most recently the Malta Cup in 2005 . The highlights of his later career were reaching the World Cup final in 2002 , in which he was defeated by Peter Ebdon 17:18, as well as regaining the world rankings in 2006.
The 2007/08 season was mixed for Hendry. His best results were semi-finals at the Welsh Open and the World Championships , where he was clearly defeated by Ronnie O'Sullivan 6:17. Nevertheless, he moved up to position 6 in the world rankings.
Hendry, one of the most successful snooker players ever, won a total of 36 ranked tournaments (see: overall statistics of ranked tournaments ), one less than Ronnie O'Sullivan. He played 775 official Century Breaks and is thus in third place behind Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins (see: List of players with at least 100 Century Breaks ). He played seven Centuries in one match in the 1994 UK Championship final against Ken Doherty and 16 Centuries in one tournament during the 2002 World Cup , both of which are records. At the maximum breaks he is also in second place behind O'Sullivan with a total of 11. Hendry played his last maximum break on April 21, 2012 in his first round match at the World Cup against Stuart Bingham to the score of 6: 1. He has also won more than a thousand frames at world championships.
At the table, Hendry was mostly calm, but still played relatively risky. His successes in the 1990s meant that parts of his style of play in snooker became standard. This includes both the long red ball as an entry ball, which was previously considered too risky, and the aggressive split of the group of red balls over the blue ball. Hendry has been a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) since 1994 . He has been voted Scotland's Sportsman of the Year twice (1989 and 1996).
By the start of the 2009-10 season , Hendry had won £ 8.6 million in prize money. He is also a good golfer and poker player. He has been married to Mandy since 1995 and has two sons, Blaine (* 1996) and Carter (* 2004). In 2014, the couple's separation was announced.
In 2011 he was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame .
On May 1, 2012 Stephen Hendry announced his retirement from professional sport immediately after his 2:13 defeat by Stephen Maguire in the quarterfinals of the World Snooker Championship . He is said to have made his decision three months in advance.
From the end of May 2017, Hendry was the advertising medium for the online poker platform PokerStars for around two years .
Others
In an interview, John Higgins made the fact that Hendry's decline in the world rankings and his lack of success was the fact that he no longer trained at the club, but only at home in the late stages of his career. Since only six or seven ranked tournaments were being played at the time, he was lacking competitive practice.
successes
During his career, Hendry reached 124 finals or alternatively second places, where he was able to win the tournament in 77 cases. While a listing of all Hendry finals is on this page , the table below lists all of the finals in tournaments of the Triple Crown .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Hendry's profile on CueTracker (as of December 2, 2018)
- ↑ Century Breaks (as of May 8, 2012)
- ↑ Where I grew up: Stephen Hendry , The Independent , February 9, 1997, accessed February 6, 2014
- ↑ data sheet at Yahoo! Sport ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Snooker World Championship - Hendry resigns after World Cup debacle , Eurosport.yahoo.com , accessed May 1, 2012
- ↑ "You have to be mentally strong" - Snooker legend Stephen Hendry new to PokerStars on pokerolymp.com on May 27, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2017.
- ↑ John Higgins: The Last Act. In: Socrates Magazin. January 17, 2018, accessed August 10, 2020.
literature
- Stephen Hendry: Me and the table: my autobiography. John Blake Publishing, London 2018. ISBN 978-1-78606-904-7 .
Web links
- Player profile on World Snooker (English)
- Player profile at www.snooker.org
- Stephen Hendry in snooker Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Hendry, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hendry, Stephen Gordon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Queensferry |