Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson ( born December 13, 1977 in Cheshire ) is an English snooker player. He currently lives in Widnes.
His professional debut was already Higginson in 1995. Great success on the snooker main tour but remained in first. After he did not have his place in the world rankings can hold, he went without direct World Ranking in the season 2006/07.
In early 2007 he made the first time a sensation when he played himself in the Malta Cup qualifier as far as the round of 16, while defeating, among others, Steve Davis.
The Welsh Open 2007 Higginson played in the quarterfinals against Allister Carter his first official 147er -break. He reached the final after beating Marco Fu ( 5:2 ), John Higgins ( 5:3 ), Michael Judge ( 5:1), Allister Carter (5:1) and Stephen Maguire ( 6-3 ). In the final against Neil Robertson was able to win six frames in a row to him by a 2:6 residue in the evening session. After the 8:8 balance of Robertson Higginson was at the crucial 17th frame as far back in the points that he gave up the frame. To indicate this, he threw curiously his towel on the table.
After the season he was thanks to the success clearly qualified as 44th in the world rankings for another year on the tour and in the following two years he was able to hold in this area. Greatest successes in this period were his World Cup debut in 2009 and reaching the fourth round at the Masters in 2008. During the UK Championship in 2008 and again at the Welsh Open in the same year he reached each the round of 32, but otherwise he failed mostly in the final qualifying round.
In 2010, he then succeeded in increasing the breakthrough, five times he stood in the main tournament and four times he stood still the first round. Thus he stood at the end of the 2009/10 season for the first time among the top 32 in the world which he only needed one round of qualifying for the main tournament, and a year later on 25th Place
Two Erstrundenniederlagen in the first two ranking tournaments of the 2011/12 season Higginson missed once the provisional among the top 16 With a minor ranking tournament, the fifth event of the Players Tour Championship in Sheffield, he not only reached in September 2011 for the second time in his career the finals of a Main Tour tournament, but won in the end with a 4-1 over John Higgins his first title. In the PTC - Grand Finals in March he beat John Higgins -slayer Jamie Jones 4-3 and could also bowl the Chinese winner of the match Xiao Guodong / Judd Trump 4-1 in the tournament. However, the resurgent Stephen Lee left him in the semi-finals ( 2:4 ) no chance of a new title.