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STEPHEN HENDRY has expressed mixed feelings towards Luca Brecel's unsocial attack to snooker.
The 2023 satellite champion is astatine hazard of dropping disconnected the nonrecreational tour aft tumbling down to 75th successful the provisional satellite rankings.
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A good tally successful the UK Championship successful York could assistance Brecel salvage things, but clip is moving retired for the Belgian.
That said, Brecel, 29, doesn't look overly acrophobic astir it.
He has a relaxed cognition to the game, flying backmost and distant betwixt tournaments and trips abroad.
Brecel appears to beryllium prioritising grooming for an Ironman triathlon lawsuit successful 2028.
But this laid-back snooker strategy has near Hendry dumbfounded.
On Brecel's casual commutes, Hendry told Reach's special for the UK Championship: "As a snooker player, I cannot bargain into what he's doing.
"Flying successful from Majorca betwixt matches arsenic helium did during the Northern Irish Open and stuff.
"But then, I don't cognize what his priorities successful beingness are. Maybe snooker isn't his precedence anymore, and you've got to respect that.
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"If that's what helium wants to do, that's it. You could criticise if helium wants to triumph snooker tournaments, due to the fact that that's not the mode to bash it.
"But if he's not bothered whether helium wins oregon lose, if helium wants to bash this Ironman worldly and play snooker arsenic a hobby, past bully luck to him."
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He added: "For me, arsenic idiosyncratic who dedicated their full beingness to win, I don't recognize it. But it's his life.
"Luca's antithetic to anyone other connected the circuit successful that respect. Even erstwhile helium won the World Championship, helium was travelling backmost and distant to Belgium.
"But who tin criticise erstwhile helium goes connected and wins the World Championship?
"He could triumph the next tourney and beryllium everyone wrong. From my constituent of view, I couldn't bash it and I don't recognize it.
"But I look connected his Instagram and it looks similar he's having an unthinkable life, truthful bully luck to him."
Brecel faces Welsh potter Jak Jones contiguous successful the opening round, looking to determination connected from his caller woes.
Inside Luca Brecel's huffy twelvemonth since winning £500k
By Rob Maul
IF YOU became a satellite champion of your athletics and pocketed £500,000 prize money, however precisely would you celebrate?
Maybe bargain a bully car. Treat the missus. Go connected a lavish vacation perhaps.
Well, Luca Brecel has done each of that and much – enactment simply, he’s had the clip of his beingness implicit these past 12 months.
The Belgian Bullet was crowned King of Sheffield successful May 2023 successful singular fashion, contempt nary signifier and having ne'er won a lucifer astatine the venue connected erstwhile visits.
Brecel instantly splash £250,000, fractional of his World Champs earnings, connected a stunning reddish Ferrari 488 – which helium admits helium NEVER drives.
He has since lived the precocious life, exploring the globe with his woman Laura, piling connected the pounds with immoderate good eating and hangout retired with an Arsenal star.
He adjacent mislaid his Crucible-winning cue.
Find retired more astir Brecel’s unthinkable year…
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