Scotland’s Stephen Hendry aims to improve his performance in next snooker season – Snooker News
Former seven-time World Snooker Champion from Scotland, Stephen Hendry slipped out of World’s Top 16 last season after he crashed out of the 2011 World Snooker Championship. The veteran was disappointed on his poor form in the World Championship and decided
to play only in major ranking events.
Even participating in the major events did not work for him because he was not able to perform up to the mark and lost his place in the Top 16 potters. However, the former champ is aiming to get back into the Top 16 improving his performance in the upcoming
snooker season. The Golden Boy failed to win any major snooker event in the 2011-12 Snooker Season and dropped down to World Number 23.
The only best display he showed in the current season was in the 2011 Brazil Masters snooker tournament where he reached the semi-final stage of the event but lost against the former World Snooker Champion Shaun Murphy by the score line of 1-5. He made his
way into the second round of the 2012 China Open against the 2010 World Snooker Champion Australia’s Neil Robertson but lost to him by the score of 5-3.
Speaking to the media about his aims in the upcoming snooker season, Hendry said, “That (playing in World Championship Qualifiers) would be great, so I can take the qualifiers out of it. It obviously eats into your schedule as well, having to play qualifying
matches all the time.”
The Ice Man added, “My best result is probably beating Neil Robertson 4-1 in the Welsh Open, but you have to say it’s kind of depressing when you have to look at single matches as your best performance. I have had a fantastic career and have nothing to prove,
but I am in sport to win and to count a performance as just winning first-round matches is not what I am about.”
He will be facing China’s Yu Delu in the qualifying session of the 2012 World Snooker Championship. The Scotsman is hoping for a better result this year so that he can make his way back into the Top 16 at the end of this season.
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