British snooker player Matthew Selt exited the lucrative Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters on Tuesday, after rage-quitting during his fourth-round match against China's Pang Junxu.<br /><br />Selt - who is ranked 33rd in the world and had beaten Allan Taylor in the previous round - was down 4-3 against Pang in their best-of-nine contest.<br /><br />Pang was up 10 points to one in the eighth frame but Selt was at the table and had just potted an opening red.<br /><br />That pot left Selt a shot on the black but he was hampered slightly as the cue ball had landed close to a cluster of reds.<br /><br />The 39-year-old was still expected to sink the black though, but it stayed in the jaws of the pocket before he reacted furiously by slapping a loose red across the table.<br /><br />This act meant that Selt had to forfeit the frame and therefore the match.<br /><br />Selt was well aware of this as he immediately turned to his opponent and offered him a handshake.<br /><br />By quitting against Pang, Selt forfeited his shot at the tournament's £500,000 top prize. The overall prize pot at this year's Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters is just over £2.3million.<br /><br />Selt's bizarre defeat by Pang came just two days after the Essex-born player had revealed that his cue had been damaged while traveling to Riyadh.<br /><br />'It snapped in two,' Selt explained on the eve of the tournament. 'I had some cues sent from back home and one from Thailand but I found a local carpenter here who has filed some of the wood away and used some extremely strong adhesive to put it back together, so I'm going to use it.<br /><br />Matt Selt's problems with a broken cue throw him off balance...<br /><br />With the score 4-3 (1-10) in his opponent's favor, he declares defeat and leaves the arena !<br /><br /><br />'I played with it for a few hours earlier. It looks terrible, but the balls are going in the direction they were going in before it broke.<br /><br />'Hopefully, that will keep happening and it won't break during the game. He's done a very good job in terms of keeping me going until I can get it to Thailand after here and get it completely rebuilt.'<br /><br />Pang will now face former world champion Luca Brecel in the round of 32.
