The Antrim young gun has won a two-year professional tour card after a string of starring performances last season
Rising star Robbie McGuigan is hungry to follow in his mentor Mark Allen ’s footsteps and prove his worth in his first season on the professional tour.
Allen was McGuigan’s stepfather until 2020, but the pair have remained close despite the new world No 1 having split with his mother Kyla, with whom he has a daughter. "But then I had a few bad results and I realised I need to learn from people like Mark - and I need to learn more because I don't know everything."The main aspects of learning for me is how I conduct myself, having a good temperament, how to prepare myself properly and to then give everything in my matches.
"I've been lucky enough to watch Mark in a lot of his big finals - and it made me want to be out there doing it,” added McGuigan, a former Northern Ireland amateur champion. “It inspired me a lot."It's something I've believed I was going to do for the last couple of years.
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