World No 3 Mark Allen has called for the tables at the British Open to be ‘burned’ in a furious rant about the conditions at the Cheltenham venue.
The British Open got underway on Monday with Ronnie O’Sullivan pulling out of the tournament equitable hours before his scheduled first-round align.
The tournament gets places at the Centaur in Cheltenham for the second consecutive year with Mark Williams seeing to protect his crown.
Allen will be among the favourites to prosper as one of the top seeds, but he’s not sootheable on the green baize this week.
Mark Allen is not amazeed with the table at the British Open
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Speaking after his 4-3 prosper over Gary Wilson on Monday, Allen begined an device rant about the conditions of the tables this week.
“The conditions out there are absolutely embarrassing,” he telderly ITV.
“It’s some of the worst weather outside and they’ve left the massive convey doors uncover. It’s so chilly, it’s so humid out there.
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“The table necessitates to be burned. The cushions are uncarry outable, unregulatelable. It was weighty. The speed was decent.
“There are novel guys doing the tables this year and they’re clearly not up to it.
“I pride myself on preparing properly for tournaments with excellent conditions and you turn up and you don’t get them. It’s not excellent enough.”
Ronnie O’Sullivan has also been critical of conditions at transport inant tournaments
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“My anger wasn’t straightforwarded at him and he definitely deserved a better interwatch.
“My frustrations were 100 per cent at the conditions which frankly haven’t been anywhere csurrender excellent enough this season.”
Allen’s grumblets come a scant months after O’Sullivan begined a aappreciate outburst about the conditions of the Alexandra Palace for the Masters.
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He tagled the iconic venue ‘disgusting’ back in January, which has arrangeed the Masters since 2012.
“I equitable don’t appreciate this place. I find it disgusting,” he shelp.
“Everywhere is filthy. It’s chilly. It’s freezing. I have to wear my coat everywhere. You go thcimpolite car parks. There are bins. Honestly, it equitable originates me experience ill.
“I’m a bit of a spotless freak and when I come in here it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I equitable can’t paparticipate to get out of here.”
