Doug Mountjoy 16, Mountjoy was diagnosed with lung cancer after being a smoker for many years. That year, in his final World Championship finals appearance, at the age of 50, he beat Alain Robidoux 10-6 in the first round only weeks before an operation to remove his left lung. For fifteen years he was the last player aged over 50 to appear in the final stages. He survived the cancer and continued to play snooker until 1997. After 1997 he concentrated on snooker coaching but did compete in the World Championship again in 2000 and 2002. Doug Mountjoy Doug Mountjoy (born 8
Muhammad Yousaf (snooker player) Muhammad Yousaf (snooker player) Muhammad Yousaf (, born 1952), also spelled as Mohammed Yousuf, is a Pakistani snooker player. He is the winner of the 1994 IBSF World Snooker Championship, 2006 IBSF World Masters Championship, and 1998 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship. Yousaf was born in Mumbai, India and later migrated to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Currently, he is resident in Pindi Bhattian and coaches young snooker players in one of the largest snooker clubs of Pakistan, "Dolphin Snooker Club", situated in Chandni Chowk, Lahore. In 1994, at the IBSF World Snooker Championship at Johannesburg, he defeated Iceland’s Johannes R. Johannesson 11–9