{"id":485,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/john-parrott\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:06:23","slug":"john-parrott","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/john-parrott\/","title":{"rendered":"John Parrott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John Stephen Parrott<\/strong>,&nbsp;MBE&nbsp;is an English former professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player and television personality. He was a familiar face on the professional snooker circuit during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, and remained within the top 16 of the&nbsp;world rankings&nbsp;for fourteen consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reached the final of the&nbsp;1989 World Championship, where he lost 3\u201318 to&nbsp;Steve Davis, the heaviest defeat in a world championship final in modern times. He won the title two years later, defeating&nbsp;Jimmy White&nbsp;in the final of the&nbsp;1991 World Championship. He repeated his win against White later the same year, to take the&nbsp;1991 UK Championship&nbsp;title, becoming only the third player to win both championships in the same calendar year (after Steve Davis and&nbsp;Stephen Hendry); he is still one of only six players to have achieved this feat. He spent three seasons at number 2 in the world rankings (1989\u201390,&nbsp;1992\u201393,&nbsp;1993\u201394), and he is one of several players to have achieved more than 200 competitive&nbsp;centuries&nbsp;during his career, with 221.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-485","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/485","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\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}