Former snooker player Alex Higgins has died at the age of 61.

前斯诺克选手阿历克斯·希金斯享年61岁。

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Williams has confirmed his position as the world's number one snooker player.

威廉姆斯巩固了自己世界头号斯诺克选手的地位。

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Star snooker player Ding Junhui announced his comeback by winning his second UK Championship title.

台球明星丁俊晖再次赢得英国锦标赛冠军，高调复出。

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Snooker player Jack Lisowski, a former cancer patient from Gloucestershire, said the new unit would have made his life "so much more bearable".

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On May 2nd the News of the World, a British Sunday tabloid, published an account of a sting operation in which John Higgins, the world's top-ranked snooker player, and his agent Patrick Mooney, appeared to agree to accept bribes in return for losing specific frames in future contests.

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Nevertheless, snooker fans on the Five Live message boards were in little doubt about Ding's potential, both as a player and as a symbol of snooker's new generation.

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