Hendry here to face Rachapol again

By The Nation

 

 

Seven-time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry has arrived Thailand for a showdown with Thai legend Rachapol Phu-ob-orn. They’ll meet in the World 6 Red Snooker Championships on September 7 at Central Lat Phrao’s Centara Grand Hyatt in Bangkok.

 

The Scotsman has been retired from the professional circuit for seven years but is still considered the most successful snooker player of all time.

 

Rachapol, better known as Tong Sid Choi, is a national hero, achieving global fame when he turned pro in the ’80s and rising to World No 3 in the 1994-95 season. 

 

He never won a world title but reached the semi-finals in 1993 and 1997 and became the first Asian to score three 147 maximum breaks in competition.

Hendry and Rachapol have played each other 22 times, with Hendry winning 17.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/sport/30375684

 

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The battle of the red balls. Can't wait.

And if you don't know him as Tong Sid Choi, everyone else called him James Wattana.