Snooker· United Kingdom· 1980s
Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current commentator and pundit.
- Overall rating
- 1662
- ±569
- Overall rank
- —
- provisional
- Snooker rating
- 1500
- 0 same-sport
- Record
- 1–0
- 1 matchups
Rating history
The record book
Beaten most
Opponents this athlete has taken the most votes from.
Nemesis
Ranked by how far below expectation the results fell, not by raw losses — losing to a clear favourite says less than losing to someone the ratings said you should beat.
No losses yet.
Signature win
The victory the ratings least expected, scored from the state at the moment of the vote.
No win so far went against the ratings. Every one was at even odds or better, which is a result, not an upset.
The crowd's verdict
How this athlete performs against what the ratings expected, and whether the crowd treats them differently outside their own sport.
- As favourite
- —
- never favoured
- As underdog
- —
- never an underdog
- In sport
- 0–0
- Cross-sport
- 1–0
Achievements
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
- Snooker Hall of Fame
Background
Stephen Gordon Hendry is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current commentator and pundit. One of the most successful players in snooker history, he turned professional in 1985, aged 16, and rose rapidly through the snooker world rankings, reaching number four in the world by the end of his third professional season. He won his first World Snooker Championship in 1990 at the age of 21 years and 106 days, becoming the sport's youngest world champion, a record he still holds. He won seven world titles between 1990 and 1999, setting a new modern-era record that stood outright until Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled it in 2022. He also won the Masters six times and the UK Championship five times for a career total of 18 Triple Crown tournament wins, a total exceeded only by O'Sullivan's 23. His total of 36 ranking titles is second only to O'Sullivan's 41, while his nine seasons as world number one were the most by any player under the annual ranking system used until 2010.
Source: Wikipedia. Quoted, not paraphrased — if a fact is not sourced, it is not here.