Peter Ebdon showed up at Alexandra Palace as a cornerman for Ali Carter alongside manager Steve Daintry for both of The Captain’s matches at the Masters this year, a role he has performed before at the Crucible and elsewhere.
Ebdon remains based in Budapest for most of the time when he is not travelling on the tour, but used his former UK home of Northamptonshire as a base while trekking down to north London to support Carter.
The former world champion knows he has his work cut out to make it back into the top 16 and avoid having to play three qualifying matches for the World Championship this year, especially with points to come off after a decent campaign in 2012-13.
However he did hint that there is a strong possibility of a first European Tour event taking place in Hungary in the near future – possibly next year.