Ricky Walden, born 11 November 1982 in Chester, is a British snooker professional, currently ranked 8th in the world.
He has won two ranking event titles, the 2008 Shanghai Masters and the 2012 Wuxi Classic. He has spent four seasons in the top 32 of the rankings, and has reached the televised stages of the World Snooker Championship on three occasions. He lost in the first round in 2009 and 2011. In the 2013 World Snooker Championship, he defeated Michael Holt, Robert Milkins, and Michael White to reach the semi-finals, where he lost to Barry Hawkins.
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“A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.”
—George Walden (b. 1939)