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Logo of the Snooker Legends tour. The Snooker Legends [1] was created in 2009 by Jason Francis [2] at Premier Stage Productions [3] to stage events for retired and current snooker players to play exhibition matches once again in some of snooker's most iconic venues. In 2017, Snooker Legends promoted and held its first professional event the ...
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. Players currently on the World Snooker Tour are shown in bold text with a following †. A
In 2011 he returned to the Crucible Theatre for the first time since 1988 to play in a "Snooker Legends" exhibition event. [5] On September 23, 2019, Jimmy White published an apology to Stevens on White's official Facebook page stating that in his autobiography Second Wind he misremembered a few stories as occurring with Stevens that in fact ...
He was the surprise winner of the 2018 World Seniors Championship, beating Dennis Taylor along the way.. He beat Patrick Wallace 4–3 in the final. [1] He won £10,000, and competed in the following World Snooker Championship qualifiers, losing 10–1 to Robert Milkins in the first round.
The World Snooker Championship originally was the only event to offer ranking points, until the 1982 International Open. [4] Over the next 22 seasons, five men held the first position; Reardon (1976/77 to 1980/81), Cliff Thorburn , Reardon again for 1982/83 [note 1], Steve Davis (1983/84 to 1989/90) and Stephen Hendry (1990/91 to 1997/98).
The tour was created and run by the company Snooker Legends in 2017, after it first staged the 2017 World Seniors Championship.. The World Seniors Tour began with a series of four non-ranking events in the 2017–18 season: the UK Seniors Championship, the Seniors Irish Masters, the Seniors Masters and the World Seniors Championship.
Higgins was born in Belfast on 18 March 1949. The only son of Alexander and Elizabeth Higgins, he grew up on Abingdon Street with his sisters Isobel, Ann and Jean. [16] [17] The family lived near the Jam Pot, a snooker and billiards hall in the Sandy Row estate, which Higgins frequented from age 10, running bets for his father and doing odd jobs. [8]
The 1977 World Snooker Championship was the first to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Thorburn became the first Canadian world snooker championship finalist. He whitewashed Chris Ross 11–0 in qualifying, then recorded a 13–6 win over Williams. In the quarter-final, he won in the deciding frame, 13–12, against Charlton. [15]