About Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current commentator and pundit. He turned professional in 1985, aged 16, and won the 1990 World Snooker Championship 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 he held outright until Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled it in 2022. The only player to have won the World Championship five consecutive times in the modern era, he holds the record for the most consecutive victories at the Crucible, with 29 between 1992 and 1997. Hendry also won the Masters six times and the UK Championship five times for a career total of 18 Triple Crown titles, a total exceeded only by O'Sullivan's 23. He is one of three players to have won all three Triple Crown events in a single season and the only player to have achieved the feat twice. His 36 ranking titles are second only to O'Sullivan's 41, and his nine seasons as world number one are the most by any player under the annual ranking system used until 2010. He made 11 maximum breaks in professional competition, putting him in third place behind O'Sullivan (17) and John Higgins (13). Awarded an MBE in 1993, Hendry was twice named the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year, in 1987 and 1996. Hendry's career declined in the 2000s, his play increasingly affected by the condition called the yips.
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