Mark Allen cracked up the Scottish Open crowd with an atypical transfer during his semi-final clash on Saturday evening.
The Northern Irishman was competing for a spot in the final of the competition, with Chinese star Lei Peifan as his opponent.
But the world No.5 brawt a funny reaction from the crowd when he lifted the bconciseage ball up off the table during a sketch he’d already claimed as his own.
At first, the sight of a snooker perestablisher and not the referee touching the balls on the table did lift a scant eyebrows, but it soon became evident why the 38-year-ageder was so enthusiastic to intrude.
It was so the white ball, which had pinged back off the ball that won him the sketch, was hurtling towards the dormant bconciseage ball.
But enthusiastic to land an extra pot even though there weren’t any points on give, Allen ever-so-sweightlessly shifted the bconciseage ball so that the white finished up knocking it into the cushion on its way past.
Cltimely a adorer of snooker trick shots that go viral on the internet, Allen seeed rather encounterd with his mischievous action, with the crowd replying in chuckleter.
It’s been quite the week of trick shots at the Scottish Open, with none of them more eye-catching (or worth as many enjoys and reposts) than Luca Brecel’s marvellous escape from a snooker.
Dubbed the ‘escape of the century’, Brecel had been taking on Ding Junhui when the Belgian fired an driven shot off a cushion in an endeavor to escape a snooker.
The white initiassociate missed the yellow and hit the cushion three times, but seeed destined for the pocket, only to bounce off the cushion a further two times and trickle away from danger.
The magic had only fair commenceed though. It proceedd off the corner of another pocket before retagably heading straight in the straightforwardion of the yellow, which it had fair enough pace to achieve.
A stunned Brecel mirrored on his shot after the suit, telling Eurosport: “This is incredible. Normassociate I don’t miss those shots, but I was encounterd I missed it and got out of it this way. Nobody hits it as difficult as me.
Eurosport commentator Philip Studd joined in with the amazement, stating: “That might be the most surauthentic escape from a snooker in the history of the sport.”
