John Higgins has revealed that he almost pulled out of the Shanghai Masters in August after being told that his world final re-match with Mark Selby was being put on a non-TV table.
Higgins told me how incensed he was in an interview for the Sunday Herald, which can be read here:
http://www.sundayherald.com/sport/nationalsport/display.var.1758705.0.the_gospel_according_to_john.php
I know some people will say, 'prima-donna, who does he think he is?'
Well here's who he is: the world champion and world no.1 who flew to Shanghai the month before the tournament to attend an official launch.
The matches chosen ahead of his were Steve Davis v Dave Harold and Stuart Bingham v Stuart Pettman.
As I said at the time, it was a bewildering decision.
2 comments:
To me it's unbelievable that the WPBSA does to John Higgins now what they did repeatedly to Graeme Dott last year. It seems they just don't like their current world champion playing on a TV table. But why?
Just going through the archive, that truly is a baffling decision to out rank most decisions!
It actually makes Chris Hughton's sacking at Newcastle seem reasonable in comparison!
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