NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Mark Williams says he has not stepped foot in a players’ lounge since the Masters in January and will not be doing again after the way his wife was treated at Alexandra Palace.
The three-time world champion heads to the Barbican in York next week, where he will take on Jamie Clarke in the last 32 of the UK Championship, however, the incident in north London remains on his mind.
Understandably so as wife Joanne was not only inconvenienced by staff at the Masters, but then left outside in the cold in sub-zero temperatures as Mark finished off his media obligations.
Speaking ahead of his trip to the UK Championship, Williams told Metro.co.uk: ‘The only bad thing about it is, I’m going to the second biggest tournament in the world, I always love going to play there and it’s a bit of a downer because I won’t be setting foot in the player’s lounge.