Chịkọta isiokwu ahụ:  Onye bụbu onye mmeri ụwa bụ Ken Doherty nọ n'ọnụ ụzọ ịpụ na Betfred World Snooker Championship na agba ikpeazụ nke asọmpi. Doherty, onye buliri aha n'afọ 1997, na-agbaso Mark Davis 8-1 mgbe nnọkọ mbụ nke agba nke atọ ha na Ponds Forge na Sheffield. Nwoke a gbara afọ iri anọ na ise na-eche ọgụ siri ike ihu iji zere ịghọ onye mmeri nke atọ nke Crucible na-ada n'izu a, ebe Peter Ebdon na Steve Davis tụfuru na agba nke abụọ. Ken Doherty nọ naanị okpokoro abụọ site na ịpụ na asọmpi asọmpi ụwa na Sheffield. Doherty na- aṅụ pint nke Guinness mgbe o merisịrị n" asọmpi Iko Mba Ụwa na 1997. Graeme Dott, onye bụbu onye mmeri ọzọ, ga-esite n'azụ na Wednesday iji debe ebe ya na isi ihe osise ka ọ na-esote nọmba ụwa 52 Yu Delu 5-4. N'ebe ndị ọzọ, onye bụbu onye mmeri ụwa nke abụọ bụ Matthew Stevens na-edu Joe Swail 5-4 ka ọ na-achọ ịpụta na Crucible nke mbụ ya kemgbe afọ 2013. Graeme Dott bụ onye bụbu onye mmeri ụwa, onye meriri ihe ngosi ngosi na Crucible na 2006.
Ken Doherty na-agba mgba n'asọmpị ikpeazụ ya n'asọmpị asọmpị ụwa. Onye mmeri ụwa nke afọ 1997 ji 8 - 1 na - edu Mark Davis mgbe ọ gụsịrị nke mbụ ya. Graeme Dott ga-enwetakwa ọkpụkpụ 5-4 na Yu Delu.