Euan Henderson

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Euan Henderson

Nationality	Scotland
Professional	1991-2003
Highest break	145

Euan Henderson is a retired Scottish professional snooker player. In his twelve year professional career he reached only one ranking final, in the 1996 Grand Prix albeit without beating any of the game's established leading players, although his 6-3 semi-final win over Welsh veteran Mark Bennett (who had knocked out several of the game's big names - including Chris Small, Peter Ebdon, Steve Davis and Tony Drago en route to the semi-final stage) did see him take out that tournament's in-form player; however, Mark J. Williams proved too strong for the Scot in the final, and Henderson - who took the opening frame and also led 3-2 at one point - succumbed 9-5 to the Welshman. This tournament, besides featuring two surprise semi-finalists in Henderson and Bennett, made headlines because many of the pre-tournament favourites (including reigning six-times world champion and world No.1 Stephen Hendry, and also Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Peter Ebdon and Nigel Bond) were all knocked out in the first round.

Following this promising result, Henderson's career quickly fell into decline. He only qualified for the World Championship once, also in 1996, losing 10-9 to Jimmy White - he scored more points than White, making him the first player to have scored more points than he conceded without winning a match [1], a record later equalled by Anthony Hamilton in 1999.

After retiring from the game in 2003 Henderson became a police officer. He was best man at fellow former player Chris Small's wedding.