Result: John Higgins won 4–1. The Form Rating favoured John Higgins, so the prediction was right.
John Higgins is the Form Rating favourite at 61%, against 39% for Liam Highfield. They have met once since June 2025, and John Higgins leads 1–0. John Higgins won the last meeting 5–3 in the last 128 of the 2026 World Open. John Higgins is 6–4 this season with 4 centuries.
The percentages come from the Century Radar Form Rating, a margin-of-victory Elo over the last 12 months. We back-tested it on 408 matches of best-of-7 or longer played between 30 May 2026 and 4 October 2026, using only the ratings each player had before the match. The favourite won 60.8% of them, and 71.1% of the 90 where we held both players' full records. Best-of-7 matches are short, so upsets are common.