2003 World Snooker Championship - Tournament Summary

Tournament Summary

• In his quarter-final against John Higgins, Doherty won the first ten frames, before Higgins took the next seven. Doherty eventually won the match 13–8.
• In the semi-finals, Ken Doherty trailed Paul Hunter 9–15, Hunter needing only two more frames for victory. Doherty won five in a row to reduce the deficit to one frame, but Hunter then took the 30th, however Doherty won all three remaining frames to win the match 17–16 and reach the final.
• Doherty produced a similar comeback in the final against Mark Williams, where he fell 2–10 behind before taking nine of the next ten frames to level at 11–11. He would also level the match at 12–12, 13–13, 14–14 and 16–16, before eventually losing the next two frames and the match.
• Doherty played a total of 132 frames, a modern day record at the World Championship.
• Mark Williams lost the opening two frames of his second-round match against Quinten Hann before winning 13 in a row – a record for a single match – to triumph 13–2.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan's maximum break against Marco Fu in the first round was the fifth at the Crucible, and made O'Sullivan the first player to score two 147s at the venue.