Andrew Higginson

Andrew Higginson
birthday	13th December 1977 (age 42)
place of birth	Cheshire
nationality	England
professional	since 1995
Prize money	£ 738,907 (as of August 29, 2020)
Highest break	147 ( Welsh Open 2007 )
Century Breaks	135 (as of August 29, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	1
World rankings
Highest WRL place	18 (Oct. – Nov. 2011, May – Jul. 2012)
Current WRL location	59 (as of August 17, 2020)

Andrew Higginson (born December 13, 1977 in Cheshire ) is an English snooker player . He currently lives in Widnes .

Higginson made his professional debut as early as 1995. However, initially there were no great successes on the Snooker Main Tour. After he was unable to maintain his place in the world rankings, he went into the 2006/07 season without a direct world rankings .

In early 2007 he caused a stir for the first time when he played his way to the round of 16 at the Malta Cup as a qualifier, defeating Steve Davis among others .

At the Welsh Open 2007 , Higginson played his first official 147 break in the quarterfinals against Allister Carter . He reached the final after victories over 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 he managed to win six frames in a row after a 2: 6 deficit in the evening session . After Robertson's 8-8 equalization, Higginson was so far behind in the points in the decisive 17th frame that he gave up the frame. Curiously, to indicate this, he threw his towel on the table.

After the season, thanks to his success as 44th in the world rankings, he was clearly qualified for another year on the tour and in the following two years he was able to stay in this area. Greatest successes during this time were his world championship debut in 2009 and reaching the round of 16 at the Masters 2008. At the UK Championship 2008 and again at the Welsh Open in the same year, he reached the round of 32, but otherwise he mostly failed in the last qualifying round .

In 2010 he made his breakthrough more and more, five times he was in the main tournament and four times he survived the first round. As a result, he was among the top 32 in the world for the first time at the end of the 2009/10 season, which meant that he only needed one qualifying round for the main tournament, and a year later he was 25th.

With two first round defeats in the first two ranking tournaments of the 2011/12 season, Higginson first missed the preliminary jump into the top 16. In a minor ranking tournament, the fifth event of the Players Tour Championship in Sheffield, he not only reached in September 2011 the final of a Main Tour tournament for the second time in his career, but won his first title in the end with a 4-1 over John Higgins . At the PTC Grand Finals in March he defeated the John Higgins conqueror Jamie Jones 4: 3 and was also able to knock the Chinese winner of the game Xiao Guodong / Judd Trump 4: 1 out of the tournament. The resurgent Stephen Lee gave him no chance of winning the title again in the semifinals (2: 4).

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1. ↑ Profile of Andrew Higginson at CueTracker (as of August 17, 2018)

Web links

Commons : Andrew Higginson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player profile at Worldsnooker (English)