'Like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal' - Jimmy White compares Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins to legends

Jimmy White has no doubt got both snooker and tennis fans purring by comparing Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins to fellow sporting legends Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. O’Sullivan last met Higgins at the Crucible in 2011, with the latter winning their quarter-final 13-11, with the pair's epic battles often referred to as the 'Clasico' of snooker. Ad/> Both have a genuine chance of winning yet another World Championship title in Sheffield, and age certainly does not appear to be slowing down either at this stage of their careers.

/> World Championship'Two of the greatest ever' — White compares O'Sullivan and Higgins to Federer and NadalAN HOUR AGO White believes that neither player has a weakness and offered up incredibly high praise by comparing the snooker duo to Federer and Nadal for their illustrious careers and undisputed greatness. «It is like Federer and Nadal: two of the greatest ever,» White told Eurosport. «They have played so many matches together.

John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan are, without doubt, two of the best players to have ever played. »It is because they are that good: it is as simple as that. Both of them have not got a weakness.

That is my opinion." Alan McManus, sitting next to White in the Eurosport studio, added: «I think their last 14 matches are seven-a-piece, so that kind of tells it all. »They have mirrored their careers all the way to this point. It is brilliant.

They are a bit like chalk and cheese: different games, different actions, different lives, actually, apart from anything else. «But one thing they share is that they are both as cool as rock 'n' roll, the pair of them, in snooker terms. They are a pair of great guys but in different ways.