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Ronnie O'Sullivan    Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan,  (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, having won five World Championships, seven Masters titles, and seven UK Championships; setting a record of 19 Triple Crown titles. His career total of 34 ranking titles is second only to Stephen Hendry's 36, while his career earnings of over £10 million puts him in first place on snooker's all-time prize-money list. He holds the records for the most competitive century breaks, the most official maximum breaks in professional competition (15), and the fastest competitive maximum break, compiled in 5 minutes and 20 seconds at the 1997 World Championship.He has also played pool, including competing in early editions of the Mosconi Cup.
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Mark Selby Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. He is a three-time World Snooker Champion and is the current world number one.Selby joined the main professional snooker tour in 1999 at the age of 16, having played on the UK Challenge Tour in 1998. In 2007, he was runner-up to John Higgins at the World Snooker Championship. After winning three Masters titles in 2008, 2010, and 2013, two UK Championships in 2012 and 2016, and three World Championships in 2014, 2016 and 2017, he became the sixth player to win all of snooker's Triple Crown events at least twice. His other ranking titles include the Welsh Open in 2008, the Shanghai Masters in 2011, the German Masters in 2015, the China Open in 2015, 2017 and 2018 and the International Championship in 2016 and 2017.
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Neil Robertson Neil Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player. He made his first breakthrough into the top professional ranks in the 2006/2007 season. He won the 2010 World Championship and was the world number one later in the same year, a ranking that he attained again in 2013 and also in 2014.Robertson is the only Australian to have won a ranking event, and was undefeated in his first six televised finals. Robertson is also one of twelve players to win both the world and UK titles, and one of ten to win the Triple Crown of World Championship, UK Championship and Masters. As a prolific break-builder, Robertson has compiled more than 550 century breaks in professional competition. During the 2013/2014 season he became the first player to make 100 centuries in a single season.
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Mark Williams   Mark James Williams,  (born 21 March 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winning in 2000, 2003, and 2018. As the current World Champion, he is due to defend his title at the 2019 World Snooker Championship in April/May 2019. Aged 43 when he triumphed in May 2018, he became the second oldest winner of the World Championship at the Crucible (Ray Reardon was the oldest winner in 1978, aged 45). Often noted for his single-ball long potting ability, Williams has earned the nickname "The Welsh Potting Machine".
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John Higgins  John Higgins,  (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 30 ranking titles, including four World Championships and three UK Championships, as well as two Masters titles, making him one of the most successful players in the modern history of the sport.In terms of world titles in the modern era, Higgins is fifth behind Stephen Hendry (7), Steve Davis (6), Ray Reardon (6) and Ronnie O'Sullivan (5). His 30 career ranking titles puts him in third place behind Hendry (36) and O'Sullivan (33). Known as a prolific break-builder, he has compiled more than 700 century breaks in professional tournament play, placing him third behind O'Sullivan and Hendry.
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Ding Junhui   Ding Junhui (born 1 April 1987 is a Chinese professional snooker player and has been considered the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. He began playing snooker at age 9, and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championship, the Asian Championship, and becoming the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship at age 15.Ding turned professional in 2003, at the age of 16. He achieved his first major professional successes in 2005 when he won the China Open and subsequently the UK Championship, becoming the first player from outside the British Isles to take the title. After his win at the 2006 Northern Ireland Trophy, Ding became the second player after John Higgins to win three ranking titles before their 20th birthday. Ding is the 2016 Six-red World Champion, and has won a total of 12 major ranking titles, the most recent being the 2017 World Open
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Barry Hawkins Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton in Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004/2005 snooker season, when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2004 British Open, and the semi-finals of the 2005 Welsh Open. He has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32. He reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.