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Alexander "Alex" Gordon Higgins (born 18 March 1949 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish professional snooker player, who was twice World Champion. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ...
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In snooker, a break is the total score achieved by a player in a single visit to the table. ...
The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...
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Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large (12 ft × 6 ft, 3. ...
The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...
Life and career Higgins started playing snooker at a young age, often in the Jampot club in his native Sandy Row area and later in the YMCA in the nearby city centre. In 1968 he won the All-Ireland and Northern Ireland amateur snooker championships. He turned professional at the age of 22, winning the World Professional Snooker Championship at his first attempt in 1972, aged 23. His opponent in that final was John Spencer. Higgins was the youngest winner of the title until Stephen Hendry's 1990 victory at the age of 21. He once again reached the final, in April 1976, only to face one of most successful players of that era, Ray Reardon. Higgins led 11-9 but Reardon made four centuries and seven breaks over 60 to pull away and win the title for the fifth time by 27-16. Higgins was also runner-up to Cliff Thorburn in 1980, when looking strong favourite to win at 9-5 up before losing narrowly 18-16. However, he won his second title in 1982 after beating Reardon 18-15 (with a 135 total clearance in the final frame); it was an emotional as well as professional victory for him. Sandy Row is a Protestant working class community near the centre of Belfast. ...
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John Spencer (18 June 1935 - 11 July 2006) was an English snooker player who dominated the game in the 1970s along with Ray Reardon. ...
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Higgins' quickness around the table and flamboyant style earned him the nickname "Hurricane Higgins", and made him a high-profile player. His highly unusual technique sometimes included a body swerve and movement when cueing, as well as a stance that was higher than for most professionals. While Higgins was arguably a classic example of how not to cue, he nevertheless managed to pot balls at a rapid rate. He also drank and smoked during tournaments, as did many of his contemporaries, helping sponsored tobacco advertising. A volatile personality got him into frequent fights and arguments, both on and off the snooker table. One of the most serious of these clashes was when he head-butted a tournament official at the UK championship in 1986. This led to a year's ban from snooker. Higgins is now semi-retired and battles throat cancer periodically. However, he did make appearances in the 2005 and 2006 Irish Professional Championships; the comebacks ending in a first-round defeat by Garry Hardiman in 2005 and a similar first round defeat to Joe Delaney in 2006. Tobacco advertising is the promotion of tobacco use (typically cigarette smoking) by the tobacco industry through a variety of media. ...
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It is estimated that Higgins earned and mostly spent a £3 million fortune over twenty years.[1] ISO 4217 Code GBP User(s) United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies Inflation 3. ...
His very unorthodox yet effective play is perhaps best encapsulated in his break of 69, made under unusual pressure, against Jimmy White in the penultimate frame of their World Professional Snooker Championship semi-final in 1982. Higgins was 0-59 down in that frame and probably one ball away from going out, but managed to compile an extremely challenging clearance during which he was scarcely in position until the colours. In particular, former world champion Dennis Taylor considers a three-quarter-ball pot on a blue into the green pocket especially memorable, not only for its extreme degree of difficulty but for enabling Higgins to continue the break and keep White off the table and unable to clinch victory at that moment. In potting the blue, Higgins screwed the cue-ball on to the side cushion to bring it back towards the black/pink area with extreme left-hand sidespin, a shot Taylor believes could be played 100 times without coming close to the position Higgins reached with cue-ball (he actually went much too far for ideal position on his next red but the match-saving break was still alive).[citation needed] James Warren Jimmy White MBE (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player. ...
The World Championship is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...
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In his autobiography, Willie Thorne said that Higgins was not a great player.[2] However, his natural aptitude and cueing ability revolutionised the sport and helped elevate the sport on to the world stage in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thorne is famous for being a break-builder, so perhaps it is worth noting that Higgins made one of the first 16-red clearances (in a challenge match in 1976). According to WWW.Snooker, it was a break of 146 (1 brown, 1 green, 5 pinks and 10 blacks).[3] William Joseph Willie Thorne (born 4 March 1954 in Leicester) is a former English professional snooker player and now a commentator. ...
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Alex has been married twice, and has one daughter with his first wife Cara, and a son and a daughter with his ex-wife Lynn.
Higgins has been fictionalized in a novel: He appears at the end of Martha Grimes' mystery Jerusalem Inn, in which snooker plays a major part. He plays and wins three rounds against one of the book's main characters. Martha Grimes is a American author. ...
Tournament wins
Ranking wins The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...
Other wins The World Snooker Championship, currently held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the climax of snookers annual calendar and the most important snooker event of the year in terms of prestige, prize money and world ranking points. ...
The Masters, formerly the Benson & Hedges Masters, is a professional snooker tournament. ...
The Irish Masters is a professional snooker tournament. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
James Warren Jimmy White MBE (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player. ...
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The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool tournament contested between teams representing Europe and the USA since 1994. ...
The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in an event officially called the Ryder Cup Matches by teams from Europe and the United States. ...
Nine ball is a billiards game played with a cue ball and 9 colored object balls, numbered 1 through 9. ...
References - ^ "Cancer-stricken Higgins urged by friends to dodge cameras at funeral", The Examiner International News, 10 October 1999; accessed 20 April 2007
- ^ Double or Quits The Willie Thorne Story (Liverpool, 2004) pp 140-41
- ^ "16 Red Ball Clearances"
- Borrows, B., The Hurricane: The Turbulent Life & Times of Alex Higgins (London, 2002)
- Hennessey, J., Eye of the Hurricane: The Alex Higgins Story (Shropshire, 2001)
- Higgins, A. and Francis, T., Alex Through the Looking Glass (London, 1986)
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