The players listed above have multiple world championship wins and numerous other titles between them. We will now take a closer look at the top 10 snooker players of all time, including their greatest career achievements:
Joe Davis, born in 1901, was a 15x Snooker World Champion. The Englishman remains the only player to be undefeated at the World Snooker Championship, while he also recorded the first ever century break at the tournament in 1930.
Davis was also a world Billiards champion, before becoming the first player to achieve a maximum break in 1955. Davis would likely have won more Snooker World Championships, if he had not chosen to focus on other tournaments from 1946.
Davis was awarded an OBE in 1963, with the legendary figure having paved the way for how Snooker is played today. Davis passed away in 1978 at the age of 77.
Stephen Hendry won a total of 36 tournaments during his professional snooker career, including seven successes at the Crucible. The Scot has over 700 century breaks and 11 maximums, earning him nicknames including The Golden Boy and The Ice Man.
Hendry’s first became world champion in 1990, when he overcame Jimmy White in the final. He won the title five years in a row from 1992-1999. Hendry delighted many fans when he returned to the professional scene in August 2020.
While it has not been the fairytale return that he will have hoped for yet, Hendry has stated that he still hopes to compete at the Crucible once again. Hendry was awarded an MBE in 1993, while he is a 6x WPBSA Player of the Year.
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