We take a look at the youngest-ever winner of the World Snooker Championship.
Youngest World Snooker Championship Winners
- 1990 - Stephen Hendry (21 years, 106 days)
- 2005 - Shaun Murphy (22 years, 265 days)
- 1998 - John Higgins (22 years, 349 days)
When the great Stephen Hendry secured the first of his seven World Snooker Championship crowns in 1990 he became the youngest ever player player to have cemented himself as the sport's top dog.
The Glaswegian's first taste of Crucible glory came at the tender age of just 21 years and 106 days, when he beat Jimmy White 18-12 in a relatively one-sided tournament decider.
Hendry was seeded number three in Sheffield, and had to overcome Canada's Alain Robidoux, Tony Meo, Darren Morgan and John Parrott to seal a spot in his first world final against White, who was hoping to secure the winner's prize at the second time of asking.
However, despite many feeling the final would be a tightly-contested affair, Hendry took full control of the match after leading 9-7 at the halfway point, moving 14-10 ahead at the end of the third session before sealing an 18-12 victory by notching four of the final six frames.
For the Whirlwind, it proved to be yet more Crucible anguish, having previously lost in the 1984 final, whilst subsequently going on to be defeated in the Sheffield showpiece in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994 - a remarkable run of five successive finals, each of which ended in defeat.
Sadly for the likable Londoner, he never went on to break his World Snooker Championship duck, retiring from the sport as undoubtedly the greatest ever payer never to have landed the biggest title of them all.
