James Warren White MBE (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won four seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, swift and attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 Six-red World champion, a record four-time World Seniors Champion (2010, 2019, 2020, 2023), 2019 Seniors 6-Red World Champion and 1984 World Doubles champion with Alex Higgins. More about Jimmy White
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White has won two of snooker's three majors: the UK Championship (in 1992) and the Masters (in 1984) and a total of ten ranking events. He is currently eleventh on the all-time list of ranking event winners. He reached six World Championship finals but never won the event; the closest he came was in 1994 when he lost in a final-frame decider against Stephen Hendry. He spent 21 seasons ranked in snooker's elite top 16. In team events, he won the Nations Cup and the World Cup with England. He is one of a select number of players to have made over 300 century breaks in professional competition. White was also the first left-handed player, and the second player overall, to record a maximum break at the World Championship.In total, we tracked 427 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Jimmy White (Jimmy White Signed Snooker Cue - Professionally Framed With Snooker Balls Set) was sold in July 2022 for £280.00 while the cheapest item (1998 Autographed Embassy Snooker Classic Ticket - Steve Davis v Jimmy White) found a new owner for £0.50 in October 2019. The month with the most items sold (17) was April 2020 with an average selling price of £14.99 for an autographed item of Jimmy White. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2017 with £144.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was April 2016. In average, an autographed item from Jimmy White is worth £12.50.
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Top 16 set for Chinese influx, says Jimmy White (02/10/15): World number three Ding Junhui is the sole Chinese player in the top 16 at the moment but Xiao Guodang (19) and Liang Wenbo (20) are knocking on the door. The drop-off to the next Chinese player is vast, with Yu Delu checking in at number 50, but White sees that all changing.
AUDIO: Jimmy White with Sean O'Rourke (12/10/14): Jimmy White talks to Sean O'Rourke about his eventful snooker career.
Jimmy White on a life fuelled by drugs, lunch with Ronnie Kray and talking snook (11/27/14): It is 9am and Jimmy White walks into a bog-standard central London hotel with a cue box. ‘Look, I wouldn’t have had this with me in the old days,’ he says.
Jimmy White overcomes Dave Harold to book second round clash with Ding Junhu at (11/26/14): Six-time World Championship finalist Jimmy White will face Ding Junhui in the second round of the UK Championship after victory over fellow veteran Dave Harold in York.
Must listen radio! Jimmy White on drugs, bribes and his snooker career (11/14/14): Legendary snooker player Jimmy White joined the Sports Bar to discuss his colourful career in the game. Among other topics, the 52-year-old spoke about his drug addictions, being offered bribes and promoted his new book, 'Second Wind'.
Jimmy White: If I didnt think I could still win the world title, Id stop playing (11/2014): The Whirlwind was the biggest snooker talent of his generation and an equally prodigious party animal. Now he admits he got addicted to crack. So why did he press the self-destruct button? If Id read Jimmy Whites new autobiography before setting off to Leicester to meet him, I would have known to pa
The Bristol Post published Reader's letter: Judd Trump could be labelled as new (05/2014): AFTER his latest exit at the Sheffield World Championship is Bristol snooker star Judd Trump about to be labelled as being the modern day version of that nearly man of the baize Jimmy White?White, the likeable "people's champion" of the eighties and ni
Stuart Bingham beats Jimmy White despite wife's car-crash distraction (04/2014): • World No10 struggled for focus at UK Championship • 'Everything's all right but I was a bit worried about that' Stuart Bingham revealed after a scrappy UK Championship win over Jimmy White that he was distracted by a car accident on Saturday involving his wife, Michelle. The world No10 assured rep
Bedworth snooker player racks up league's highest-ever break - then beats legend (03/2014): One-frame encounter comes during personal appearance by six times world finalist at the Atack Snooker Club in Nuneaton
Jimmy White on Ronnie O’Sullivan, his snooker future and visit to Norwich (02/2014): Jimmy White on action a the UK Championships in December - and he will be in Norwich later this month. Britain’s youngest might need reminding who Jimmy White is – but the exercise will always be worthwhile because the numbers stack up.
Life of Eric Bristow... why I carried a claw hammer, I was never a 'choker' like (12/2013): Eric 'The Crafty Cockney' Bristow, who helped make darts popular with his larger than life personality, has spoken about his career in a revealing new television interview.
Snooker legend Jimmy White takes on his fans in Bournemouth pool bar (11/2013): SNOOKER legend Jimmy ‘The Whirlwind’ White played pool with 30 fans in Bournemouth.
Jimmy White: World Snooker Championship will move to China (10/2013): Jimmy White believes it is 'inevitable' that the snooker World Championship will be moved to China in the future.