Ken Doherty looking to spark into form after slow start to new season

16.10.2022 - 19:57 rte.ie

Ken Doherty says he can still compete at the top level of the World Snooker Tour, but the former world champion admits he must find some form this season.He lost his qualifier for the Northern Ireland Open 4-0 to Kyren Wilson in a scrappy match at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast this morning as he failed to take early chances to get a foothold in the match.It means just one victory in five events so far this season, as the Dubliner continues to struggle to put some results together.We need your consent to load this comcast-player contentWe use comcast-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.

Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage PreferencesHe missed a glorious opportunity in the opening frame today, and he was punished by the world number 6, who finished the match with a maximum."I lost the first frame on the black and had a couple of chances to put it away," he told RTÉ Sport."It might have made a bit of a difference."Winning that first frame made Kyren very strong.

He's one of the top players in the world and he finished off the match in style."I was disappointed with my positional play.

I know I lost 4-0, and it looks one-sided, but I should have been 2-1 up at one stage, but that's just the way the game goes."I was more pleased with how I felt.

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There are several timeless yarns about Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins and his endless confrontations with officialdom from the sporting vaults which, like his old mucker Jimmy White potting balls for fun on the snooker table, tend to get better with age. One, in particular, remains pure genius amid the hell-raising Hurricane's legendary Guinness guzzling of yesteryear. Ad Ireland's evergreen 1997 world champion Ken Doherty faced Higgins in what turned out to be the Hurricane's final match at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1994, the scene of his totemic second world triumph in 1982 and that swashbuckling do-or-die run of 69 against White in an epic 16-15 semi-final win.