Allen adds voice to PTC events criticism

NORTHERN Ireland’s Mark Allen added his voice to the growing number of frustrated players in snooker echoing Ronnie O’Sullivan’s sentiments last week that most of the PTC events are “pointless” at the moment.

The 2004 World Amateur Champion lost out in the semi-final of the Alex Higgins Invitational tournament to eventual winner Neal Robertson, who beat Judd Trump in the final 4-1, but claimed the Killarney event was little more than a practice.

“They are good match practice which is probably the best that you could say about them [the PTCs] but a lot of the lower ranked players are playing these events at a loss andpersonally for me I don’t think you should be a professional snooker player and be losing money.”