John Parrott ponders retirement
Thursday, 4 March 2010 09:31John Parrott has admitted he could quit snooker after failing to qualify for the Betfred.com World Championship.
The 1991 world champion has steadily fallen down the rankings and is now certain to slip out of the top 64 for next season.
He lost 10-6 to Chinese teenager Anda Zhang at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport yesterday and would face a future away from the main tour if he opts to continue.
Parrott, 45, said in the Daily Mail: 'If I'm off the tour, it's fairly certain that I'll retire. I certainly won't be playing any lower down.
'If I lose my card, that's me gone. I still have the utmost respect for the game. I've just lost in the World Championship and I'm not going to spit the dummy out. But I don't enjoy the hours of practice any more.'
Qualifying for the Sheffield highlight continues today with Ken Doherty up against Jimmy White for a place in the two-week event which gets underway on 17 April.
