John Higgins

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John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire. He has won 33 ranking titles, placing him third on the all-time list. He has won four World Championships, three UK Championships, and two Masters for a total of nine Triple Crown titles. He has been ranked world number one on four occasions. Higgins turned professional in the 1992–93 season, as did Ronnie O'Sullivan and Mark Williams; the three players are known collectively as the "Class of '92". During the 1994–95 season, he became the first teenager to win three ranking events in one season. He won his first world title in 1998, defeating Ken Doherty in the final, and won further world titles in 2007 and 2009, defeating Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy in the respective finals. In 2010, a tabloid newspaper carried out a sting operation in Ukraine that it claimed showed Higgins and his then-manager arranging to lose frames in future matches for money. An investigation cleared Higgins...

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