Stuart Bingham

Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player from Basildon, Essex, born in 1976. He won the World Amateur Championship in 1996 but had little sustained success early in his professional career. His form improved in his mid-thirties, and at 35 he won his first ranking title at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open. In 2015, aged 38, he won the World Championship by beating Shaun Murphy 18-15 in the final, becoming the oldest first-time world champion in the sport. He won the Masters in 2020, then the oldest player to do so. A prolific break builder, he has scored more than 600 centuries and nine maximum breaks. He served a six-month ban in 2017 for breaching betting rules.