World champion ready for nervous start at the Crucible
John Higgins will be sick with nerves before he walks out at the Crucible to defend his World Snooker Championship title, but insisted there was nowhere that could match the Sheffield stage.
Higgins has won three of the last five world titles and is again amongst the big favourites to lift the trophy when the Betfred.com World Championship gets underway on April 21. The Wizard of Wishaw will bring the curtain up on this year's tournament as he plays a qualifier on the opening morning of the event, and he admits he will be full of nerves.
"The nerves are really there just before you walk out at the Crucible, you'll probably feel physically sick, but once the match gets underway there's no better place to be than playing in the World Championship," Higgins said. "I'm just concentrating on winning that first match, once that's out the way you feel like you're in the tournament and you can see where you go from there."
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