Posts tagged John Higgins
Defending champion Shaun Murphy makes winning start in Premier League snooker
Sep 3rd
Shaun Murphy began the defence of his PartyCasino.com Premier League title with a 5-1 over Ding Junhui last night.
Murphy beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in last year’s final, and on his return as reigning champion proved too much for Ding.
Ding was on course to take the opening frame with a break of 51, but Murphy was able [...]
Premier League snooker returns
Sep 1st
Tomorrow night sees the return of the PartyCasino.com Premier League snooker, with reigning champion Shaun Murphy and six-time winner Ronnie O’Sullivan both in action.
Now in its 25th year, the Premier League has been won by snooker’s greats, Stephen Hendry (six), O’Sullivan, (six), Steve Davis (four), Jimmy White (one) and John Higgins (one).
This year’s field is [...]
Newspaper hands over tapes in John Higgins scandal
Aug 4th
The Sunday newspaper the News of the World has handed over all of the video recordings used during the sting operation of snooker player John Higgins and his manager Pat Mooney.
On May 2nd, the scandal was revealed on the day of the world championship final at the Crucible. The footage shows Higgins and his manager [...]
Mr. Consistent lifts the Welsh Open trophy
Feb 1st
With Stephen Maguire, reigning champion Ali Carter and the world’s best player Ronnie O’Sullivan all in the semi-finals of the 2010 Welsh Open – John Higgins didn’t particularly stand out as the favourite to win the Welsh Open despite being snooker’s ‘Mr. Consistent’.
The Scot’s convincing 5-2 win against Mark Selby should have been a clear [...]
Below-par Higgins crashes out of Masters
Jan 14th
Along with the likes of Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Williams, world champion John Higgins was among the favourites to win the 2010 Masters. However, last night he became the first big-name casualty of this year’s tournament after losing to Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen 6-3.
The three-time world champion was sloppy throughout, while his opponent [...]
Championship League delight for Higgins
Jan 8th
John Higgins produced a brilliant display in last night’s Championship League Group Two playoff final to seal his place in March’s winners’ group.
The 34-year-old Scot secured his passage through to the playoffs with four wins out of six in the initial group stages, including a 3-0 hammering over Championship League debutant Ronnie O’Sullivan.
The Rocket rarely [...]
Purple Ronnie makes Championship League debut
Jan 7th
Ronnie O’Sullivan, who hit the headlines earlier in the week after it was revealed he will defend his Masters crown with a bizarrely purple-coloured cue, endured a disappointing end to his Championship League debut – after suffering defeat in his final two matches of the evening.
The outspoken snooker idol was defeated 3-1 by Ali Carter [...]
Hendry white hot at 6 Red World Championship
Dec 17th
The 6 Red World Championship continues as we’re approaching the final on Friday. One of the more successful players has to be Stephen Hendry who so far has beaten Itaro Santos, Shea Brereton and Lucky Vatnani. He also beat Irishman Patrick Lally 4-0 and made it to the next round.
Just as John Higgins was beginning [...]
Sixes and Evans
Dec 16th
This Sunday, Ding Junhui beat reigning world champion John Higgins in the UK Championship final and the snooker world was slightly shocked.
Last night, Higgins faced defeat once again, this time to a less obvious player. Reanne Evans, one of the world’s finest female snooker players came out victorious in this year’s battle of the sexes, [...]
