Ka taƙaita labarin:  Tsohon zakaran duniya Ken Doherty yana gab da ficewa daga gasar Betfred World Snooker Championships a zagayen karshe na neman shiga gasar. Doherty, wanda ya dauke taken a shekarar 1997, ya bi Mark Davis 8-1 bayan zaman farko na zagaye na uku da suka cancanta a Ponds Forge a Sheffield. Dan wasan mai shekaru 45 yana fuskantar gwagwarmaya don kauce wa zama na uku wanda ya lashe gasar Crucible ya fadi a wannan makon, tare da Peter Ebdon da Steve Davis sun rasa a zagaye na biyu. Ken Doherty yana da ra'ayoyi biyu kawai daga fita daga gasar zakarun duniya a Sheffield. Doherty yana jin dadin gilashin Guinness bayan ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya a 1997. Graeme Dott, wani tsohon zakara, dole ne ya zo daga baya a ranar Laraba don ya yi ajiyar wurinsa a cikin babban zane yayin da yake bin lambar duniya 52 Yu Delu 5-4. A wani wuri kuma, tsohon zakaran gasar zakarun duniya Matthew Stevens ya jagoranci Joe Swail 5-4 yayin da yake neman fitowar farko a Crucible tun 2013. Graeme Dott tsohon zakaran duniya ne, wanda ya lashe gasar baje kolin a Crucible a 2006.
Ken Doherty na fama da rashin nasara a wasan karshe na neman shiga gasar cin kofin duniya. Gwarzon dan wasan duniya na shekarar 1997 ya bi Mark Davis 8-1 bayan zaman farko. Graeme Dott kuma dole ne ya sake dawowa a 5-4 zuwa Yu Delu.