John Higgins leaves snooker area mid-match – due to subject with TV studio
John Higgins stormed out of the sector mid-match on the UK Snooker Championship after being distracted by studio lights.
Higgins’ hopes of establishing one other showdown with previous rival Ronnie O’Sullivan had been dashed as he fell 6-3 to Zhou Yuelong. The Scot was erratic all through the competition and even left the desk at one stage.
Higgins was perturbed by studio lights which had been left on and, after talking to referee Tatiana Woollaston, he put his cue down and marched backstage earlier than returning a couple of minutes later. The Eurosport commentators confirmed it wasn’t their lights that had distracted Higgins. The BBC can also be protecting the match.
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Commentator Dave Hendon stated on Eurosport: “Well, John Higgins has just had a word with Tatiana Woollaston because he is saying about the light in the TV studio, the host broadcasters, that it is putting him off.
“I suppose it is a crucial second for him as he’s 5-3 down. Well, Higgins is leaving really. He is leaving the sector. The studio lights have been approaching and off all afternoon, and from the place we’re, I do not assume the wall really obscures them.
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“Anyway, Higgins made his views known there, he’s just walked out. So obviously we won’t be continuing until he returns. Play has been held up.”
After Higgins returned to his seat, Hendon added: “He is returning, however I feel he’s going to have a sit down because the lights are nonetheless on. At the desk, nobody is house.”
The match eventually resumed with Zhou clinching the frame and the match to advance to the last eight for just the second time in his career. It wasn’t the first interruption during the tournament at York’s Barbican Centre after a small fire saw the building evacuated earlier within the week.