Doherty knocks out Carter

KEN DOHERTY knocked out Essex player Ali Carter 5-3 in the Daily Record Players Championship in Glasgow yesterday.

The former world champion and 2003 runner-up is one of the players running into form before the world championship starts in Sheffield on April 17.

“I think all the top players are feeling the adrenaline pumping with the championship just 12 days away,” he said following a 5-3 victory.

“The world championship is special but you still want to do well in this tournament. If you win here you will feel the best of all the players going to the Crucible.”

Doherty has not been in a final this season but a run to the last four of the Irish Masters last month suggests he is on the right track.

“This was a game I could easily have lost a couple of months ago. But the matches I won in Dublin gave me a bit of confidence I have been lacking,” he added.

Jimmy White beat Shaun Murphy 5-3 and now plays another of snooker's golden oldies - 39-year-old John Parrott.