During a career that has spanned 19 years, Scottish professional snooker player John Higgins has won 19 titles in both first ligue and cup of champions. He has also earned a substantial fortune from his career.
Higgins started his professional snooker career as an amateur player. He was an amateur snooker player who had won several tournaments before becoming a professional. Higgins started winning ranking tournaments after becoming a professional. Higgins was also the first player to win three ranking tournaments within a single season.
Higgins' success continued in the 1994/95 season. He won two ranking tournaments more and a final. He was then crowned World number 1. 1998 marked his first major title. Ronnie O'Sullivan beat him to the World Championship Finale in 2001. He was also in the Grand Prix final. He finished the season as World number one for the first time.
During the 2006 season, Higgins batted Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final of The Masters. He also won the Welsh Open and Scottish Masters. His fourth British Open title came in 2004. He reached the final of European Championship 2005. He was also a finalist for the Championship du monde. In 2011, he won his second World Championship. He was also a finalist of the Shanghai Masters Open. In 2009, he reached both the final of the International Open or the World Championship. He was also the winner of the Ruhr Champion. In 2009, he was World number 1.
Higgins has also been a finalist in a number of non-ranking tournaments. He has also reached the final of a number of pro-am tournaments and variant finals. He was the only player to win all three opening tournaments in a season. He also became first player to earn a world ranking title and reach quarter-finals of a British Open event.
John Higgins is a professional who has reached the final of eight World Championship tournaments. He has also reached the finals of two Masters tournaments, a UK Championship, a Welsh Open and a Grand Prix tournament. He has been a runner up 18 times.
Higgins' career was not without controversy. News of the World conducted an undercover operation in May 2010. It claimed that John Higgins, his manager, had organized matches in a tournament. David Douglas, former Metropolitan Police detective chief supervisor, was the head of the disciplinary committee that investigated these allegations. Investigation revealed that Higgins had not been involved in the scandal. Nonetheless, Higgins was suspended from professional competition for six months. He was also fined PS75,000.
Higgins returned to work in November 2010 after being suspended. He reached the finals at the Shanghai Masters and Ruhr Championship. He also reached finals at two other events in the 2005/06 seasons. He finished the season as the fifth-ranked man in the world. The World number one was replaced by Mark Williams, a Welshman. In 2013, he was ranked fifth worldwide, but he fell to 12th the following year.