Amateurs play under the same rules as professionals, they can earn prize money and places on the World Snooker Tour based on results.“Many elite amateur players like Si Jiahui train and compete full-time in the hope of earning a guaranteed tour place, therefore they are competing under significant pressure with no guarantees. “While he may have amateur status, he deserves his place in our events, based on his results. World Snooker Tour responded in a statement: “Si Jiahui earns a place in ranking tournaments this season as one of the leading players on the 2021 Q School rankings. Si had earlier missed a golden chance himself to wrap up what would have been a comfortable 6-1 win after clawing back three snookers required only to then miss the blue with victory seemingly in sight. Since turning professional at 15, I have earned the right to call myself a professional snooker player. Amateurs should not be allowed in professional tournaments, the end. “I am not picking on him as a young man, he deserved his victory. He played like a man who does not have a care in the world, because he does not have a care in the world.
It is wrong, in my opinion, to walk into somebody who is not playing with the same pressures and concerns I am. “The other 127 runners and riders in the tournament, it is their livelihood, too. We are self-employed individuals and not contracted sportsmen. I don’t know why we as a sport allow amateurs to compete in professional tournaments. He continued: “I feel extremely hard done by that I have lost to someone who shouldn’t even be in the building. “I am going to sound like a grumpy old man but that young man shouldn’t be in the tournament,” Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live following his early exit at the hands of the Chinese teenager.
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