Snooker: Higgins sunk by `Swampy'
Wednesday 04 February 1998
It is the third year in a row that the world No 2 has failed to win a match at the sport's most lucrative invitation event.
The improving Hamilton was hardly the ideal opponent if he was to end that run. Hamilton, known as "Swampy", ran out a 6-3 winner after compiling breaks of 46, 48, and 82 to lead 3-2 and a 133 clearance in the sixth frame.
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