{"id":487,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/ken-doherty\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:07:05","slug":"ken-doherty","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/ken-doherty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ken Doherty<\/strong>&nbsp;is an Irish professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player, commentator and radio presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an amateur, Doherty won the&nbsp;Irish Amateur Championship&nbsp;twice, the&nbsp;World Under-21 Amateur Championship&nbsp;and the&nbsp;World Amateur Championship. Since turning professional in 1990, Doherty has won six ranking tournaments, including the&nbsp;1997 World Snooker Championship&nbsp;in which he defeated&nbsp;Stephen Hendry, inflicting Hendry&#8217;s first loss in a world final. This victory made him the first and only player to be world U-21, world amateur and world professional champion. He came very close to breaking the&nbsp;Crucible curse, reaching the&nbsp;1998&nbsp;final where he lost out to&nbsp;John Higgins. He reached a third final in&nbsp;2003, in which he was defeated by&nbsp;Mark Williams. In other&nbsp;triple crown&nbsp;events, he has been runner-up three times in the&nbsp;UK Championship&nbsp;and twice in the&nbsp;Masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An intelligent tactician, Doherty has compiled more than 350&nbsp;century breaks&nbsp;in professional competition. Since 2009, he has combined his playing career with commentating and&nbsp;punditry&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":510,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-487","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/legend"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}