Graeme Dott was born on 12 May 1977 and is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall.
25 Facts About Graeme Dott
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Graeme Dott turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001.
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Graeme Dott has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship and the 2007 China Open, and was runner-up in the World Championships of 2004 and 2010.
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Graeme Dott then recovered his form, regained his top-16 ranking, and reached a third World Championship final.
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Graeme Dott slowly climbed the rankings, reaching the top sixteen in 2001, where he remained until 2009.
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Graeme Dott was a runner-up in the 1999 Scottish Open, the 2001 British Open, the 2004 World Championship and the 2005 Malta Cup.
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Graeme Dott scored his first competitive 147 break in the 1999 British Open.
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The loss against McCulloch maintained the "Crucible curse", as Graeme Dott became the seventeenth consecutive first-time champion to lose his title the very next year.
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Graeme Dott announced that he might miss the 2008 World Championship due to personal reasons, and his manager said he had been suffering from depression.
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Graeme Dott won the Berlin leg of the World Series of Snooker, but withdrew from the Moscow event two days before it began, as his wife was preparing to give birth.
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At the 2010 World Championship, Graeme Dott produced an unlikely run to his third World final in six years.
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Graeme Dott returned a year later with a strong campaign at the World Championship, beating Mark King and Ali Carter before losing to in-form Judd Trump in the quarter-finals.
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Graeme Dott was knocked out in the first round in the Shanghai Masters and Welsh Open and didn't get past the last 16 of the 2011 UK Championship, German Masters or the China Open.
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Graeme Dott reached three semi-finals after playing in 11 of the 12 events throughout the season.
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Graeme Dott lost in the final of the Snooker Shoot-Out to Barry Hawkins, in a tournament where the winner of each round is decided by a 10-minute frame.
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Graeme Dott stated after the match that it was the worst he had played as a professional.
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Graeme Dott became the only Scottish player to reach the second round, after John Higgins, Stephen Maguire, Marcus Campbell, and Alan McManus all suffered first-round defeats.
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Graeme Dott's defeat meant that, for the first time since 1988, no Scottish player competed in the World Championship quarter-finals.
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Graeme Dott ended the season outside the top 16 for the first time in six years, as world number 17.
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In July 2014, Graeme Dott started coaching snooker professionally to help encourage and influence the rising number of younger players within his native Scotland.
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Graeme Dott said that he had reverted to the way he played in 2010, with a more carefree approach to the game which he felt had helped his good form in the tournament.
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Graeme Dott has described Lambie as a "second father" to him.
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In 1997, Graeme Dott began a relationship with Lambie's 16-year-old daughter Elaine.
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Graeme Dott lost 15 professional matches in a row and slid down the rankings, dropping out of the top 16.
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Graeme Dott and his wife had a second child, a daughter Lucy, born in November 2008.