Hurricane Higgins is
the nickname of the snooker legend Alexander Gordon Higgins. He earned the
nickname The Hurricane because of his speed of play. Higgins is from Ireland
and he was born in 1949. Alex is credited to have brought the game of snooker
to a wider audience and contributing to its peak in popularity in the eighties.
He totally won 24 titles, two of them as the world champion, another two are
runner-up, and one from UK Championship. In 1978, Higgins beat Cliff Thorburn
to win the Masters. Higgins was also a former World Doubles champion with Jimmy
White and he won the World Cup three times with the All Ireland team. Clive
Everton made a TV documentary about snooker “The Story of Snooker (2002)”, and
they described Alex as ‘’one true genius that snooker has produced’’. He died in
July 2010 when he was 61 years old.
