John Higgins's personal file: Nationality: Scottish Birthday: 1975.05. 18 Project: career change of snooker: 1992, highest ranking of snooker: 1, latest ranking of snooker: 3 Higgins' resume john higgins is expected to become the youngest world champion, but in/kloc. When john higgins first entered Crucible, he was little known, because he was eliminated early in the preliminaries of the qualifiers. In the season of 1994-1995, john higgins won three ranking matches, which was a brilliant record achieved by only Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis OBE in earlier years. Because of its ranking 16, john higgins automatically obtained the admission qualification of crucible 1995. His first opponent, allen mcmanus, is both his friend and his teacher. As a result, allen mcmanus beat him easily with 10: 1. 1996, john higgins successfully defeated Martin Clark in the world professional championship with 10: 5, entered the top 32, and won his first personal victory in Crucible. Then in the second encounter with allen mcmanus, he made a strong counterattack and won with 13: 5.