14.10.07

HIGGINS: 'I NEARLY WALKED OUT OF SHANGHAI'

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:

Anonymous said...

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?

jamie brannon said...

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!