{"id":486,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/paul-hunter\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:33:08","slug":"paul-hunter","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/paul-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-a0e5d852-8d51-4ef2-8300-656852ab6369\"><strong><br>Paul Alan Hunter<\/strong>&nbsp;(14 October 1978&nbsp;\u2013 9 October 2006) was an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player. He was a three-time&nbsp;Masters&nbsp;champion, winning the event in 2001, 2002, and 2004, recovering from a deficit in the final to win 10\u20139 on all three occasions. He also won three&nbsp;ranking events: the&nbsp;Welsh Open&nbsp;in 1998 and 2002, and the&nbsp;British Open&nbsp;in 2002. During the&nbsp;2004\u201305 snooker season, he attained a career-high&nbsp;ranking&nbsp;of number four in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-cdbd85f2-9fc1-42fb-8d35-8f3583751597\">In March 2005, Hunter was diagnosed with\u00a0neuroendocrine tumours, but continued to play for several months afterwards. He died shortly before his 28th birthday in October 2006. In his memory, a tournament in\u00a0F\u00fcrth, Germany, was renamed the\u00a0Paul Hunter Classic\u00a0and, in April 2016, the Masters trophy was renamed the Paul Hunter Trophy. A prolific break-builder, he made 114 century breaks, the highest being a 146 in the\u00a02004 Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":516,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-486","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/486","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\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}