This is my hero.Geet Sethi.
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India's ultimate world champ!!!
Geet Sethi
Bleary-eyed Geet Sethi came like a breath of fresh air to billiards and snooker. The tall, wiry young man took the sport from saloons to five-star halls and good many people flocked to the venues to watch him perform. Billiards is one sport which demands lounge suit and bow while playing and the debonair Sethi is a photographer's delight as he lunges to position the cue. Surely, Sethi has something to do with a lot of Indians taking to billiards and snooker. His charming personality coupled with his impeccable manners at the table make him out a man to watch. Sport needs more Sethis' to liven it up and provide models.
Geet Sethi has won the Billiards World Championship an amazing 7 times! In a career spanning 16 years and counting, Geet has won every honour possible in the game and seems in no mood to quit. On September 23rd, 2001, in Christchurch, he won the World Championships for the 7th time and scored 59 century breaks in the tournament. This includes a break of 836 in the finals.
Career Highlights
World Amateur Billiards Champion: 1985 and 1987
World Professional Billiards Champion: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2001
Asian Billiards Champion: 1987
Gold Medallist at the 13th Asian Games, Bangkok 1998
National Billiards Champion: 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1997, and 1998
National Snooker Champion: 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988
Records:
Featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first amateur in the world, to compile the maximum 147 break in Competition.
Constructed a break of 1276 in the 1992 World Professional Billiards Championship, which is the World Record under the three pot rule and was the highest break made in the last five decades.
Awards:
Padma Shri in 1986
Arjuna Award in 1986
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1992-93
KK Birla Award in 1993
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Stephen Hendry; A Snooker great!
A seven time World Snooker Champion, Stephen Hendry is one of his kind. This Scot has achieved a lot.
.Born January 13, 1969
Lives Auchterarder, Tayside, Scotland
Nickname "The Golden Boy", "The Great One", "The Maestro"
Turned pro 1985
Match stats 1998/99 ranking events; 1999/2000 ranking events
Highest pro break 147 (seven times: 1992 Matchroom League, 1995 Embassy World Championship, 1995 Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship, 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge, 1998 Dr Martens Premier League, 1999 British Open (autumn) and 1999 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship)
Highest ranked 1 (1990-97)
Current ranking 3
World Championship best Winner seven times (1990, 1992-94, 1995, 1996, 1999)
Best ranking event performance Winner of 32 tournaments: Grand Prix 1987, 1990, 1991, 1995; British Open 1988, 1991, 1999 (autumn); Asian Open 1989, 1990; Dubai Duty Free Classic 1989, 1990, 1993; Embassy World Championship 1990, 1992-94, 1995, 1996, 1999; UK Championship 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996; Regal Welsh 1992, 1997; Scottish Open 1993 (International), 1997 (International), 1999; European Open 1993 (Dec), 1994; Thailand Masters 1998
Major invitation tournament victories: Benson & Hedges Masters 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996; Benson & Hedges Irish Masters 1992, 1997, 1999; Regal Scottish Masters 1995; Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge 1995, 1997; Liverpool Victoria Champions Cup 1999
Career centuries 422 (end of 1997/98 season)
Career earnings £5,794,862 (through the 1999 Welsh Open)
1997/98 earnings £272,270
Speciality Break-building, centre pocket pots
Achievements Stephen has won 32 ranking (record) and 73 titles in all (from 98 finals). He has won a record seven World championships, six Masters and five UK championships. After surpassing Steve Davis in 1990 he was the No. 1 player in the rankings until 1998.
He became the youngest World Professional Champion, at 21 yr 106 days on 29 Apr 1990.
Hendry became the first player to make more than two tournament 147s. His first was made in the 1992 Matchroom League and his second in the 1995 World Championship. The record-breaking third maximum came on 25 Nov 1995 in the UK Championship. Not content with this he made his fourth maximum on 5 Jan 1997 in the 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge, his fifth on 23 May 1998 in the 1998 Dr Martens Premier League, his sixth on 19 Sep 1999 in the final of the British Open (the first maximum in a ranking final) and his seventh on (21-23) November in 1999 in the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship!
Stephen made seven centuries in the final of the 1994 UK Championship, which is a record in a professional match. He also became the first player ever to make five centuries in seven frames.
From 17 Mar 1990 to his defeat by Jimmy White on 13 Jan 1991, the Scot won five sucessive titles and 36 consecutive matches in ranking tournaments. That's the longest unbeaten run ever.
Hendry is one of only four players to win both the World Championship and the UK Championship in the same year. Steve Davis, John Parrott and John Higgins are the others.
Together with Steve Davis and John Higgins he is also the only one to hold the World, UK and Masters titles at the same time.
He was voted WPBSA Young Player of the Year in 1988 and Player of the Year in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1996.
He was a member of the Scottish team that won the 1996 Castrol-Honda World Cup
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Geet in action.
With impeccable play, Geet Sethi has set the world of Billiards ablaze. The champion, the world's best. |
