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Tuesday, December 22, 1998 Published at 15:51 GMT
Sport
Higgins heads rankings
Higgins - won the game's top two titles in a a triumphant year
John Higgins will go into 1999 with an emphatic lead at the top of snooker's world rankings.
The Scot, who won the World and UK titles this year, is on 35,720 points - 11,980 clear of second-placed Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Mark Williams has moved up to seventh after lifting the Irish Open last weekend, while six-times world champion Steve Davis - a first-round loser last week - slips down to 18th.
Latest world rankings following Irish Open:
(1997-8 position in brackets)
- John Higgins (1)
- Ronnie O'Sullivan (3)
- Stephen Hendry (2)
- John Parrott (6)
- Stephen Lee (9)
- Ken Doherty (4)
- Mark Williams (5)
- Alan McManus (8)
- Matthew Stevens (26)
- Paul Hunter (24)
- Dave Harold (19)
- Jimmy White (18)
- Anthony Hamilton (11)
- Peter Ebdon (7)
- Mark King (16)
- Dominic Dale (23)
- Fergal O'Brien (20)
- Steve Davis (14)
- Tony Drago (10)
- Chris Small (25)
- Quinten Hann (45)
- Nigel Bond (13)
- Gary Wilkinson (17)
- Andy Hicks (21)
- James Wattana (16)
- Darren Morgan (22)
- Terry Murphy (29)
- Jamie Burnett (31)
- Graeme Dott (30)
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