In the early morning of December 16, in the quarterfinals of the 2023** Scottish Open, John Higgins played Tom Forde, Higgins started 3-0, Forde chased 3-3, Higgins won two games in a row to win 5-3 and advance to the semifinals. 2023** Scottish Open
Higgins started the game with a single stroke of 132 points, scored 61 points in a single stroke in the second game and won 108-0, and scored 64 points in a single stroke in the third game and won 72-9, leading 3-0.
Forde scored 58 points in a single stroke to recover a game with 102-25, scored 56 points in a single stroke and won the fifth game with 82-0, and won the sixth game with a single stroke of 99 points, chasing 3-3.
In the seventh game, the match point battle, both of them had a bad hand and played sparsely, and finally Higgins won 66-25. In the eighth game, Higgins scored 71 points in a single stroke and won 85-0.
Higgins advanced to the semi-finals 5-3, and the semi-final opponents will be between Sancam and Lin Binfeng.
For Higgins, his last ranking title was at The Players Championship in February 2021Since then, he has won four consecutive ranking tournament finals, all of which have been runners-up, three of which have been defeats in the tiebreaker, and his last ranking final was a Tour Championship in early April 2022, and he has not reached a ranking final for more than a season.