Scott Donaldson looks up to Stephen Hendry and John Higgins – Snooker Update
The new snooker season is featuring many new names that came through different platforms to try their luck in the professional circuit. Some of these new faces had a hard struggle in the 2012 World Snooker Qualifying School (Q School) while the rest were
chosen by the snooker governing body, World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association on the basis of their tremendous performance in the regional championships.
An emerging talent of the Scotland, Scott Donaldson also managed to make his place in the professional tour for the next two years. The Scottish potter did play in the 2012 World Snooker Q School but he failed to make an appearance in the event. However,
he is now part if the two-year snooker tour and is aiming to make it fruitful for him.
Throughout his career he has been watching and following two former World Snooker Championship winners from Scotland, Stephen Hendry and John Higgins and believes that they are still the greatest players of all times. He also appreciated the way both potters
help the youngsters in their game-play.
In his recent interview with the Pro Snooker Blog, Donaldson said, “When I was really young I watched Stephen Hendry but the last four or five years I’ve been watching John Higgins. He’s one of the nicest guys you will ever meet in your life. The thing with
John, he has taken so much out of the game, yet he does so much to help the juniors as well.”
He added, “That’s what I look at and that to me, that’s better than anything really. He’s always helping out juniors, asking them for a game in the club and that. I know he does help the juniors a lot, it’s very, very good to see.”
It is natural that every young player, in his early days of the game, looks up to veteran players of the game and grows up watching them play. In snooker particularly, where every player has his own style of playing at the baize and has his own strength,
there is no doubt that the emerging young snooker stars will fancy them and will try to follow in their footsteps.
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