Mark Williams Cue!

[Watford]

Has Mark Williams got a new cue?
I thought he had a machine spliced cue but the one he's got now looks hand spliced!

[mattyshinobi22]

it was mentioned on there a bit ago

its a parris, trev offered to make him one but think trev forgot bout it so he went to parris
or something along those lines

[LWB]

You'd think he'd have a Welsh made cue, strange one.

Anyway I heard steve davis say that he's had that cue for a year and he's just getting to grips with it now because it's quite thick!

Surely this can't be right, if he was not 100% happy with a cue then surely he could have swapped it no problem for anything else on the planet!

Does anyone know more about this?

[trevs1]

Mark did get in touch with me some time back and I was supposed to get back to him but forgot to do so.

He uses a Parris cue now, and yeh, it is a thick monster cue, which is very different to what he used before. As to the point of why he didn't get it altered, or adjusted, well, Mark isn't really the type of guy to get too into this or that with cues.

So, my guess would be that he got the new cue and used it, struggled at first, but persevered and eventually got more into it. From what I am reliably told, he's playing VERY well, but in a match situation, and, against arguably the greatest natural talent the game of snooker has ever witnessed, it doesn't come so easy.

Still, it is good to see Mark where he probably belongs.....in at the business end of major tournaments, competing against the best.

I hope next year brings more of it for him.

[LWB]

Thanks for the information Trevor, very interesting. I don't like thick cues either, it's like trying to do surgery with a machete! lol. Williams to me seems like the most down to earth player out there, I doubt there's anyone that doesn't wish him good luck, hopefully he'll be back up there in the top few players in the world again soon.

[Watford]

Yeah great to see him playing well shame he came up against Ronnie so early.
Would of been nice to see him play Hendry!