A future World Champion (Matthew Stephens)

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Product:	Matthew Stephens
Date:	16/01/01 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent potter with prospect

Disadvantages: Has some other good young rivals

The 1999/2000 season was the most lucrative, by a long way, in the short career of Matthew Stevens.

The Regal Masters became his first major tournament win, while later in the season he claimed the Benson and Hedges Masters. His highlights in ranking events included a second final in the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship and a first appearance in the final of the Embassy World Championship, after which he treated himself to a new Ferrari.

A native of Carmarthen, Stevens is a fluent Welsh speaker and the dragons that adorn his shirt cuffs, mark him out as a proud Welshman.

Stevens climbed to No.6 on the world ranking list without winning a ranking title. He plays his snooker at the Terry Griffiths Matchroom and the 1979 World Champion has monitored his progress carefully since Matthew was a young promising Welsh Junior.

His first professional title was the 1995 Benson and Hedges Championship, which earned him a wild card to the Benson and Hedges Masters in 1996, where he beat his mentor Griffiths, before losing to Alan McManus. Back again by right in 2000, he scythed his way through the quality field, before beating Ken Doherty in a top-class final.

Don't bet against this lad being World Champion one day!

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