Scott Donaldson was forced to withdraw from his World Championship qualification match with Ryan Day on Wednesday, suffering from a tremor which ended his hopes of competing.
Day was 4-0 ahead at the first interval, making a superb 146 break in the opening frame, but that is where the match ended as Donaldson conceded.
However, it has returned, with shakes in his leg proving unbearable to play through.
After the unusual method of victory, Day explained: ‘Scott pulled me to one side after the fourth frame as we walked backstage. I feel really sorry for what’s happened.
‘I think he’s mentioned a tremor in his leg that’s coincided with the vaccine.
‘I started really well, made a 146, the third frame I noticed Scott get back up off the shot a couple of times. I thought he may have had an injury to his knee or ankle, but he explained it as this tremor that had disappeared for five months, but the pressure of the last match on Monday brought it back on and today it was there pretty much the entirety of the time we were playing.
‘It’s super unfortunate he’s had to withdraw.’
Donaldson came through qualifying last year and spoke out about the tremor he had been dealing with but appeared to have gone for good at that stage.
‘I developed a tremor after my first Covid vaccine and that knocked me out for a long, long time,’ Donaldson said 12 months ago.
‘I was worried if I was ever going to get back to full health again. To be even out there playing, feeling strong, able to get down on my shots properly, it gives you a great perspective when you don’t have your health.
‘I’m basically down on shots, I’m shaking and I can’t control the shakes. I don’t know what it was but it’s over now and I feel good again.
‘I went to see a private neurologist and he confirmed to me that it was the Covid vaccine that gave me an essential tremor that I was diagnosed with, that I’ve never had in my life. I’m not anti-vaxx or anything, I’ll take a vaccine for anything, it was just unfortunate I think.’
‘At the UK Championship in November [2021] there was no shaking, I went to see the neurologist and he confirmed that it had gone away.’
It is terrible luck for Donaldson, with Day booking a place in the draw for the last 32 on Thursday morning.
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