{"id":2925,"date":"2025-04-07T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:21:27","slug":"john-higgins-beats-mark-selby-in-tour-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/john-higgins-beats-mark-selby-in-tour-championship-final\/","title":{"rendered":"John Higgins beats Mark Selby in Tour Championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;Vintage Higgins beats Selby in Tour Championship final&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBC REPORT: &#8216;An emotional John Higgins produced a vintage display to defeat fellow four-time world champion Mark Selby 10-8 in a compelling Tour Championship final in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot dominated the early stages on Sunday to lead 5-1 but appeared on the ropes when Selby reeled off seven consecutive frames to hold an 8-5 advantage in a high-quality encounter.<\/p>\n<p>However, from there, Higgins who turns 50 next month, exhibited his fighting qualities, crafting breaks of 110, 67 and 84 as he edged back in front at 9-8.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Victory was sealed with a sublime 132 clearance as Higgins collected the top prize of \u00a3150,000 and his second ranking title in as many months after a four-year drought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are playing a monster of a player,&#8221; said Higgins. &#8220;To be 5-1 up and to be frozen out to be 8-5 behind, you don&#8217;t come back and win five in a row against Mark Selby normally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I managed to do it, so it was incredible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC REPORT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cp8jkr20re8o\">www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cp8jkr20re8o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqKX2c5OwNU?si=z1lm02SGuBwljLUu\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWorldSnookerTour%2Fvideos%2F2977726445738273%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>USEFUL LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Snooker on You Tube: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@worldsnookertour\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@worldsnookertour<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Snooker Tv: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wst.tv\/\">www.wst.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Snooker Facebook: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldSnookerTour\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldSnookerTour\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nScottish Snooker is The National Governing Body for Snooker &#038; Billiards in Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/scottishsnooker.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scottishsnooker.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Facebook:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SnookerScotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/SnookerScotland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Vintage Higgins beats Selby in Tour Championship final&#8217; BBC REPORT: &#8216;An emotional John Higgins produced a vintage display to defeat fellow four-time world champion Mark Selby 10-8 in a compelling Tour Championship final in Manchester. The Scot dominated the early stages on Sunday to lead 5-1 but appeared on the ropes when Selby reeled off seven consecutive frames to hold an 8-5 advantage in a high-quality encounter. However, from there, Higgins who turns 50 next month, exhibited his fighting qualities, crafting breaks of 110, 67 and 84 as he edged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}