Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins is set to make a shock comeback to the sport, more than five years since his last tournament appearance. The twice world champion is among nearly 200 players to enter the Benson and Hedges Championship in Mansfield, England later this month.
53-year-old Higgins is scheduled to play local professional Lee Spick on October 23 in the £40,000 event. In order to book a place in the Benson & Hedges Masters at Wembley in February next year the Belfast man would need to win eight matches in total.
Higgins has spent the last few years battling against cancer and he underwent a successful operation to have a cancerous lymph node removed from his neck.
Filed by James Boylan.
