NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Jordan Brown and Mark Allen have finally been drawn to play each other for the first time on the professional tour and the great friends are meeting in a big one – the UK Championship.
The Antrim pair are good pals and practice partners, spending a huge amount of time together as they prepare for events back in Northern Ireland, and now they will clash on one of the biggest stages in snooker for the first time.
Allen heads straight to the Barbican as one of the world’s top 16, while Brown came through qualifying this week, putting his name in the random draw and saw it placed alongside his mate on Thursday.
It is going to feel different to a normal match when they play at the Barbican on Saturday afternoon, but Brown says it will be ‘war as usual’ in terms of scrapping it out to get the win.