Stuart Bingham

The amazing sportsman Stuart “Ball Run” Bingham is a professional snooker player, who is a former World Champion, and Masters winner. He won the 1996 World Amateur Championship, and took his first ranking title at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open.

Born and raised in Essex, Bingham started playing amateur snooker in 1990 and quickly made his mark by winning the IBSF World Snooker Championship in New Zealand in 1996. He played professionally for the first time at the 1999 World Snooker Tour, and steadily progressed eventually breaking into the Top 32 in 2006, and into the Top 16 by 2011 following his first ranking title win at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open. He continued to impress, claiming the Shanghai Masters in 2014, and then the following year claimed the World Championship title. He took his fourth ranking title at the 2017 Welsh Open, and in 2015 he became one of 18 players to have won five or more ranking events when he took the English Open title. His sixth ranking title event came with victory at the 2019 Gibraltar Open, and then he secured his second Triple Crown with victory at the 2020 Masters.

Bingham regularly connects with his legions of followers and fans through Instagram, and Twitter, posting pictures and comments about his life both on and off the baize. He also has an official website, stuartbingham.com.