Hendon: All White on the night

Eurosport - Tue, 20 Oct 10:13:00 2009

Eurosport commentator David Hendon takes a look at the career of Jimmy White in light of his World Snooker Series victory in Prague last week.

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Jimmy White has had an incident-packed career, indeed an incident-packed life, but he has never lost his love for snooker and snooker has never lost its love for him.

His victory in the World Series event in Prague was therefore a very popular one.

OK, so he only won three matches but one of those was against reigning world champion John Higgins,and another was against the 2006 Crucible winner Graeme Dott.

White's form comes and goes these days but, at times, he still looks impressive.

The problem is that he is mired at the qualifiers in Prestatyn where reputations count for nothing.

At 47, a full-scale resurgence is very unlikely but I still believe Jimmy is better than his world ranking of 56th and it would be nice to think he could push on from his Prague victory and start to climb a few places.

He still has the charm and he still has the support. What he needs now are the results.

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  1. Good man Jimmy well done...keep at it and you'll do­ well.

    From john, on Tue 20 Oct 2:53PM
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