Stephen Hendry is a Scottish former professional snooker player and current commentator for the BBC and ITV.
Stephen Hendry Age
He is 55 years old.
Stephen Hendry Height
He is 1.86m tall.
Stephen Hendry Nationality
scottish
Stephen Hendry Biography
Stephen Hendry is one of the most popular and richest Snooker Player who was born on January 13, 1969, in Queensferry, United Kingdom.
Hendry was born in South Queensferry, West Lothian, brought up in Gorgie, Edinburgh, and then Dalgety Bay, Fife, where he attended Inverkeithing High School.
He later returned to Kirkliston, attending nearby Queensferry High School from the age of fourteen, and lived in a flat in South Queensferry during the early part of his professional career.
Stephen Hendry parents
He was born to Gordon Hendry and Irene Hendry. There isn’t much information about his parents on the internet as he likes to keep it private.
Stephen Hendry Siblings
There is no information about his siblings if he has any.
Stephen Hendry Wife
He met his future wife Mandy Tart at a Pontins holiday camp when he was 16. The couple married in 1995 and settled in Auchterarder.
In 2014, Hendry left his wife after 19 years of marriage and moved to England to pursue a relationship with 26-year-old children’s entertainer and actress Lauren Thundow, whom he had met at a snooker event the previous year.
Stephen Hendry Children
He has two children: Blaine and Carter who were born in 1996 and 2004.
Stephen Hendry Net Worth
As of December 11, 2023, Stephen has a net worth approximately $16.5 Million.
Stephen Hendry Career
Hendry started playing snooker in 1981, aged 12, when his father, Gordon, bought him a child-sized snooker table as a Christmas present. Two years later he won the Scottish U-16 Championship. He also appeared on BBC’s Junior version of Pot Black.
The following year he won the Scottish Amateur Championship and also became the youngest ever entrant in the World Amateur Championship. In 1985, after retaining the Scottish Amateur Championship, he turned professional. At 16 years and three months old he was the youngest ever professional. Hendry was managed by entrepreneur Ian Doyle.
In his first season, he reached the last 32 in the Classic and was the youngest ever Scottish Professional champion, winning the 1986 edition.
He also became the youngest player ever to qualify for the World Championship, a record he held until 2012 when Luca Brecel qualified at the age of 17 years and one month. He lost 8–10 to Willie Thorne who then applauded him out of the arena. In the next season, he retained the Scottish Professional Championship title and reached the quarter-finals of both the Grand Prix and World Championship, losing 12–13 to defending champion Joe Johnson, and the semi-finals of the Classic.
Hendry and Mike Hallett combined to win that year’s World Doubles Championship. In the 1987–88 season, Hendry won his first world ranking titles, the Grand Prix, beating Dennis Taylor 10–7 in the final, and the 1988 British Open.
He also claimed three other tournament victories, retaining both the Scottish Professional Championship and the World Doubles Championship (with Hallett), and the Australian Masters. By the end of that season, he was ranked world no. 4 and was voted the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year.
At age 21 at the time, he became the youngest to be a snooker World Champion.
The 1989–90 season saw the beginning of Hendry’s period of dominance. That season, he won the 1989 UK Championship, Dubai Classic, Asian Open, Scottish Masters, The Masters and his first World Championship, beating Jimmy White 18–12 in the final, elevating him to the summit of the world rankings at the age of 21.
Hendry made a strong start to the 1999–00 season by winning two of the first three tournaments, including the British Open, where he made the fifth 147 break of his career and the first maximum in a ranking final.
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