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Career Overview Higgins is considered to be the best competitive player.

Higgins' outstanding and extraordinary skills have enabled him to win 20 ranking event titles, a number second only to Hendry, Davis and O'Sullivan.

His career began in 1992 and he reached the peak of his career when he was only 23 years old.

He defeated defending champion Ken Doherty in the final of the World Championships with a score of 18-12 to win the World Championships.

The victory also elevated him to No. 1 in the world rankings, where he remained for two years.

In 2001, he reached the final of the World Championships for the second time, but lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan with a score of 14-18.

In 2007, he reached the final of the World Championship for the third time. This time his opponent was the young rookie Selby. Although there was no pressure, Selby chased the score to 10-12, which put huge pressure on Higgins.

, but he withstood the pressure and defeated his opponent 18-13 in one go, lifting the World Championship trophy for the second time.

In the 2009 World Championship, Higgins reached the final for the fourth time and defeated the 2005 World Championship champion Sean Murphy with an absolute advantage of 18-9, lifting the World Championship title at the Crucible for the third time.

trophy, becoming the fourth player to win the Crucible three times.

So far, Higgins has scored 147 points five times in a row, including two consecutive events, one was the LG Cup final in 2003, and the other was the first round of the British Open.

The "Scottish Wizard" went silent for three years from 2001 to 2004. He did not win a championship, and he began to doubt whether his career would slip to the end.

In the 05-06 season, John Higgins performed a wonderful scene in the Greenwich Grand Prix final at the GUILD Hall in Preston.

In the final against O'Sullivan, Higgins scored 4 consecutive hundred-shot scores, scoring an incredible score of 494 in total, and a new record was born.

"Standing there, I just knew I wasn't going to drop the ball," Higgins said.

"It's really unimaginable, I've never seen this happen," said a still bewildered O'Sullivan after the game.

Higgins and O'Sullivan met again in the final of the SAGA Masters.

The two men were equally capable and this wonderful match will be remembered for a long time.

In the 18th game, they went tit for tat and once reached a 9-9 tie.

In the deciding game, O'Sullivan started and scored 60 points in one stroke, but Higgins still scored 64 points to clear the table in the face of a very difficult situation.

"This victory will stay in my memory for a long time," he said. "Beating Ronnie in the final and finishing with a clear finish in the last frame, I can't think of anything better than that."

Higgins also entered the finals of some important competitions, but only missed the championship by a small margin.

In the 2006 Malta Open, Higgins was leading 5-2 and was chased 8-5 by Doherty. He only lost an important red ball in the last game, resulting in a 9-8 defeat.

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In the final of the China Open of the same year, Higgins had been leading, but in the most tense deciding game, he unfortunately lost to Mark Williams.

Higgins ended the 2005-06 season with an unsatisfactory World Championship result.

In the first round of the World Championships, he was defeated by rookie Selby 10-4.

However, his ranking is still among the top 4 in the world. In the 2006-07 season, when Higgins was upset 5-3 by Andrew Higginson in the first round of the Welsh Open before the end of the season, he felt that his entire 06-

The 2007 season, and even his career, was deteriorating.

"I'm obviously not in form right now," he said. "Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan are not going to let the win slip away when they're 3-0 up. Maybe that's a great player versus a good player.

The difference between them. I have encountered a technical bottleneck now, and I don’t know if I can find the problem and solve it. I think the only happy aspect for me now is that I played very well last season, but I was in trouble.

Field capsized, so maybe it could be the other way around this time.” Then it became reality.

Higgins had only reached the semi-finals of the UK Championship before, and although he staged a high-level duel with Peter Ebdon, he lost 7-9 in the end.

But the Crucible will bring out the best in those competitive players.

He started with easy wins over Michael Holt and Fergie O'Brien before proving he was close to his prime with a victory over O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals.

In the semi-finals, his training partner Stephen Maguire led 14-10, but then Higgins produced perhaps the greatest comeback of his career to win 17-15.

In the final stage of the game, he also scored the 1,000th single-stroke century in Crucible history.

On the first day of the final, Higgins leisurely led the dark horse Mark Selby 12-4.

The fearless Selby tied the score to 10-12 on the second day, only two games behind Higgins.

This puts Higgins under tremendous pressure.

But the "Scottish Wizard" finally showed his championship temperament and won four consecutive games at 14-13.