{"id":479,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/jimmy-white\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:04:14","slug":"jimmy-white","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/jimmy-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>James Warren White<\/strong>,&nbsp;MBE&nbsp;is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who has won three seniors World titles.&nbsp;Nicknamed&nbsp;&#8220;The Whirlwind&#8221; because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the&nbsp;1980 World Amateur Champion,&nbsp;2009 Six-red World champion, 3 time&nbsp;World Seniors Champion&nbsp;(2010,&nbsp;2019,&nbsp;2020),&nbsp;2019 Seniors 6-Red World Champion&nbsp;and&nbsp;1984 World Doubles champion&nbsp;with&nbsp;Alex Higgins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White has won two of snooker&#8217;s&nbsp;three majors: the&nbsp;UK Championship&nbsp;(in 1992) and the&nbsp;Masters&nbsp;(in 1984) and a total of ten ranking events. He is currently&nbsp;tenth on the all-time list of ranking event winners. He reached six&nbsp;World Championship&nbsp;finals but never won the event; the closest he came was in&nbsp;1994&nbsp;when he lost in a final frame decider against&nbsp;Stephen Hendry. He spent 21 seasons ranked in snooker&#8217;s elite top 16. In team events, he won the&nbsp;Nations Cup&nbsp;and the&nbsp;World Cup&nbsp;with England. He is one of a select number of players to have made&nbsp;over 300 century breaks in professional competition. White was also the first left-handed player, and the second player overall, to record a&nbsp;maximum break&nbsp;at the World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":505,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-479","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/legend"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}