Hello, dear friends!!!!
What can I say else... I don't know... Only this: Snooker - is the best game I've ever watched on tv!!!!! :-)
John HIGGINS
Born May 18, 1975 Lives Wishaw, Lanakshire, Scotland Nickname "The Kid", "The Wizard of Wishaw" Turned pro 1992 Match stats 1998/99 ranking events; 1999/2000 ranking events Highest pro break 147 (twice: 2000 Nations Cup, 2000 Benson & Hedges Irish Masters) Highest ranked 1 (1998-1999) Current ranking 4 World Championship best Winner (1998) Best ranking event performance Winner of 15 tournaments: Grand Prix 1994, 1999; International Open 1995, 1996; British Open 1995, 1998, 2001; German Open 1995, 1997; European Open 1997; Embassy World Championship 1998; UK Championship 1998, 2000; China International 1999 (March); Regal Welsh 2000 Major invitation tournament victories: Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge 1998, 1999; Benson & Hedges Masters 1999; Irish Masters 2000, 2002; Champions Cup 2001; Regal Masters 2001 Career centuries 112 (end of 1997/98 season) Career earnings £2,529,342 (through the 2001 Thailand Masters) 2000/2001 earnings £175,150 (through the Thailand Masters) Speciality Break-building, "Formidable Technique" Achievements John Higgins burst onto the snooker scene in the 1994/95 season, becoming the first teenager to win three ranking events in one season. For this he earned an amazing £283,970. 12 times more than he earned the previous season.
In the 1997/98 season he won the 1998 Embassy World Championship. At the end of the season he received WPBSA's Player of the Year award.
The following season he captured the 1998 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship, the 1999 Benson & Hedges Masters, 1999 Charity Challenge, 1999 China International and the 1999 Premier Snooker League.
John's career record is 24 wins in 41 finals.
He reached the top of the rankings after winning the 1998 Embassy World Championship.
In the same tournament he also became the first to make three consecutive century breaks in a World Championship match, and the first to make 14 centuries in a professional tournament.
Higgins is one of only five players to win both the World Championship and the UK Championship in the same year. Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Parrott and Ronnie O'Sullivan are the others.
Together with Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry he is also the only one to hold the World, UK and Masters titles at the same time.
He was a member of Scottish teams that won the 1996 Castrol-Honda World Cup and the 2001 Coalite Nations Cup.
Miscellaneous John had never made a 147 until he finally got one while practicing for the 1998 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship!
