Regent Snooker Lounge

Jimmy White,Alex Higgins,John Parrott,Cliff Thorburn are the snooker legends. They play for their conutry and got good achivements in the tournment. They are the real Soonker legends having all the ailities to win their matches.James Warren White, MBE (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player, best known as Jimmy White. Nicknamed the “Whirlwind”, White is a multiple World Championship finalist, appearing in six World Championship finals without ever winning the title – although he won the 1980 amateur World Championship, prior to turning professional later that year.With a host of major titles and achievements, including ten ranking tournaments, White’s overall record ranks him well up the list of snooker’s most successful players.Nonetheless, his consistency waned in the 2000s and a first-round defeat in the 2006 World Championship saw White drop out of the world’s top 32 player rankings. White’s continued slide down the rankings saw him drop to 65th but he recovered slightly to move up to no. 56 for the 2009-10 professional tour.Alex Higgins started playing snooker at the age of 11 year often in the Jampot club in his native Sandy Row area of south Belfast and later in the YMCA in the nearby city centre. At 14 and only seven and a half stones, he left for England and a career as a jockey. However he put on a lot of weight and was released without ever having ridden in public. He returned to Belfast and by 1965, age 16 he had compiled his first maximum.In 1968 he won the All-Ireland and Northern Ireland amateur snooker championships.Higgins continues to play fairly regularly, enjoys “hustling” for small-time stakes in clubs in Northern Ireland and beyond against allcomers; and in May 2009 he entered the N. Ireland amateur championship, “to give it a crack”,[14] but failed to appear for his match.John Parrott won the World Snooker Championship in 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final.He repeated his win over White to add the UK Championship title later that year, one of only 3 players to achieve this.He spent 3 successive seasons at in the World Rankings. Parrott has compiled 217 competitive centuries during his career, 8th on the all time list.

Cliff Charles Devlin Thorburn,born January 16, 1948 in Victoria, British Columbia is a retired professional Canadian snooker player.Thorburn first went to England to play snooker professionally in the early 70s. He had met John Spencer in Canada, who had advised him to go to the UK to improve his game.He was runner up in the world championship in 1977, and was soon considered a contender for tournaments. Thorburn’s finest moment came in the 1980 World Championship.

Snooker Legends are up coming sport event to the UK next. Fans will be able to access the events in May 28,2010.