John Higgins (snooker player) title, which prompted Steve Davis to comment "I think John Higgins is the best snooker player I've ever seen in my life". Despite the victory, Higgins lost the world number one ranking to Mark Williams. Higgins had a poor 2011/2012 season, reaching only two quarter finals of major ranking events. His season-best performance was reaching the semi-finals of the Masters, where he lost 4–6 to Shaun Murphy. Before the start of his World Championship title defence, he admitted that his performance levels had not been good enough and that he had not been trying hard enough, managing just one or
2019 World Snooker Championship 2019 World Snooker Championship The 2019 World Snooker Championship is a future professional snooker tournament, taking place from 20 April to 6 May 2019 at in Sheffield, England. It will be the 20th and final ranking event of the 2018/2019 season. The tournament will be broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport. Mark Williams is the defending champion, having beaten John Higgins 18–16 in the 2018 final. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Main Stage maximum break: £ <br>Maximum break in Qualifying: £ Seedings shown in brackets following the 16 seeded players. 128 players