Apology to Cao Yupeng failed as Mark Allen still gets fined by WPBSA – Snooker News
Recently two of the prominent professional potters, the former two-time World Snooker Champion Mark Williams and the 2012 Welsh Open winner China’s Ding Junhui, were fined by the snooker governing body, World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
(WPBSA) for their negative remarks about the World Snooker Championship venue, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
A couple of days back, the 2012 Haikou World Open winner, Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen also joined the club after he was fined by the WPBSA for his offensive comments about his opponent in the 2012 World Snooker Championship.
Allen was up against China’s Cao Yupeng in the opening round of the 2012 World Snooker Championship and lost to him by the score line of 10-6. After his loss, the Northern Irishman was quite disappointed and called his opponent cheat. The WPBSA took notice
of his remarks about the Chinese players and found him guilty of making offensive statements.
Later on, Allen also apologised to the Chinese potter and said, “Having taken some time to reflect on my comments I can appreciate that I overstepped the line at a time when I was heavily influenced by the emotions of a disappointing defeat. I would like
to take this opportunity to apologise to Cao Yupeng if he felt that my comments were insinuating he were a cheat.”
However, his apologising remarks were not good enough and the snooker governing body fined him £10,000. The WPBSA also charged him the cost of hearing along with a three-month suspension from international snooker.
The WPBSA said in its recent statement, “The WPBSA Disciplinary Committee consider that this behaviour is unacceptable and offensive to China and the Chinese players. Such behaviour will not be tolerated by the WPBSA. He was fined £10,000 and ordered to
pay £1,000 towards the cost of the hearing and was suspended from playing for a period of three months.”
Allen blamed Yupeng for cheating during their first round match up as he believed that the Chinese potter deliberately gave a blatant push in the 10th frame when he was building his break. He said that even the referee missed that and let him
continue with his break.
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