Suspension: John Hinkins has been suspended from the UK Snooker Championship match after making frightening remarks……
It is not often that a professional snooker player finds something so distracting that it causes them to walk away from the table mid-match with an encounter having to be delayed, but that is exactly what unfolded as John Higgins took exception to some lights in a TV studio during his defeat to Zhou Yuelong at the UK Championship on Thursday afternoon. The Scot eventually returned to the table.
John Higgins left Eurosport’s commentators very surprised as he suddenly walked off mid-match against Zhou Yuelong at the UK Championship due to some lights.
It was a pretty dismal day for the Scot as he lost 6-3 to exit the tournament at the Barbican Centre in York in hugely disappointing fashion, but the drama came in the ninth frame as he became distracted by some lights in a TV studio.
Foulds also attempted to fathom what was unfolding: “Yes, some lights… I don’t know if it has been made worse by the fact that they have put up the divide [between the tables] now, which means you can see the other side of the arena and perhaps what is happening in the studio there – which is not our Eurosport studio, I might add.
“Anyway, John is not hanging around! He needs to find some inspiration from somewhere, even if it is getting annoyed at something. He has not played well today; he has struggled for the most part.
“It is a difficult one. It is a television event, and sometimes you just have to play through things. I don’t know how hard it is for John, in fairness, but it is not as though this is the first time all week. For some reason, John is not happy about things.”
