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
2015 International Championship (snooker) 2015 International Championship (snooker) The 2015 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 October and 1 November 2015 at the Baihu Media Broadcasting Centre in Daqing, China. It was the third ranking event of the 2015/2016 season. Ricky Walden was the defending champion, but he lost 4–6 against Tian Pengfei in the qualifying round. John Higgins won his 28th ranking title, defeating Dave Gilbert 10–5 in the final. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: These matches were played on 25 October 2015. These matches took place between 30 September