Ken Doherty

That's another guy that could've won more, Maguire of course.

And then you've got Ken Doherty, Stuart Bingham, and Zhao Xintong on six.

So that says a lot, doesn't it? I mean, f- Ken World Champion, Stuart World Champion, but you know, Ali's above the ...

You know, they wouldn't have swapped that for more ranking titles.

and he was stripped of the title.

Oddly, it was then awarded to the person he beat, who was Ken Doherty.

Now, Ken being Irish, I don't know whether that had anything to do with it.

I don't think Ken regards that as a title victory, though.

I can't accept table tennis.

Ken Doherty.

Sluke.

Right.

I think about Belgium football ranked number one, never won a Euros, never won a World Cup.

I think if we look at the snooker players who have never been world number one, Shaun Murphy comes to mind, Ken Doherty comes to mind.

Kyren Wilson has never been number one despite being world champion, but would he trade his world championship for a num- a number one ranking? I don't think he would, but at the same time, there is some kudos with that.

There is the, the bragging rights are attached to this position, and I think they all want it.

After the session, we were in awe of how well Zingtong played, but apparently didn't know the half of it.

When we got in the lift back at the hotel, Ken Doherty and Dennis Taylor jumped in with us.

They were gushing over how he'd picked the plant out that started Zingtong's century break at the end of the match.

We didn't even notice that from our seats, but we had...