{"id":195117,"date":"2025-12-21T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:07:09","slug":"snooker-star-won-scottish-open-while-hungover-and-admitted-disrespecting-tournament-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195117\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker star won Scottish Open while hungover and admitted ‘disrespecting’ tournament | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snooker star Mark Allen<\/a> will be eyeing the title at the Scottish Open after excelling at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank Sports Centre this week. And the 39-year-old has prepared for matches very differently this year compared to his routine before encounters in 2018.<\/p>\n

Allen clinched the Scottish Open title in 2018<\/a> after overcoming Shaun Murphy<\/a> 9-7 in the final. That tournament came straight after the star had lost to Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan<\/a> in the final of the UK Championship<\/a> in York. And throughout the Scottish Open, Allen decided to let his hair down as it coincided with a planned \u2018drinking holiday\u2019 he was enjoying with Stephen Maguire.<\/p>\n

Despite consuming alcohol during the tournament, Allen produced a series of fine displays at the baize as he overcame Liang Wenbo, Chen Feilong, Yuan Sijun and Graeme Dott on his way to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Allen then thrashed Alfie Burden 5-0 in his last-eight encounter before narrowly overcoming Daniel Wells 6-5 in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

And following his last-four win, the Northern Irishman told TNT Sports: \u201cI don\u2019t deserve to be in the final, the way I\u2019ve treated the tournament this week. It makes no difference now, I have felt terrible all week. So I might as well keep going.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could stay in tonight, go to bed early and feel horrendous tomorrow. And I would deserve to feel that way for the disrespect I have shown the tournament all week. I may as well go out and have a good time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a couple last night and that is the worst I have felt. I only had four or five drinks and felt horrendous when I woke up – maybe I didn\u2019t have enough. Other nights, I have had more than my fair share and felt okay the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve managed to scrape through a few matches. I was all over the place. I’m embarrassed to say I was hungover and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen has overcome Ishpreet Chadha, Wang Yuchen, Anda Zhang and Joe O’Connor at the Scottish Open this time around.<\/p>\n

And following his victory over O’Connor, the talented star admitted he isn\u2019t happy with his cue as he explained: \u201cPut it this way, I\u2019m getting rid of it as soon as I finish this tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I can get a bit more power with the other one. I\u2019m definitely not guessing as much as I am with that. Anything over distance is a bit of a guess and so far I\u2019m guessing right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snooker star Mark Allen will be eyeing the title at the Scottish Open after excelling at Edinburgh’s Meadowbank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[120903,111,139,69,120904,120902,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-195117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-mark-allen","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-scottish-open","13":"tag-snooker","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}