Kyren Wilson reveals he was left ‘feeling like his head would explode’ during UK Snooker Championship win

KYREN WILSON shrugged disconnected a headache that felt similar “my caput was going to explode” to triumph his UK Championship opener.

Yet his vanquished hostile Stephen Maguire – who was thrashed 6-0 successful a bizarre last-32 clash – described his show arsenic “garbage”.

Reigning satellite champion Wilson, 32, woke up feeling awful, the time aft helium had worked for the BBC successful the commentary box.

It was a bizarre crippled astatine York’s Barbican successful which the highest interruption was lone 86 and under-bar Maguire compiled a precocious of 32.

The Warrior – who present plays Chris Wakelin successful the last-16 – said: “It was a unusual match.

“Early doors some of america were going into the pack, not truly landing connected a shot and having to play safe.

“For maine the array was truthful hard to judge. I don’t cognize if that was what was incorrect with Stephen.

“I felt everything was drifting to the right. If you were playing it slow, it was drifting to the right.

“I had the worst headache. I had it successful the comms container with JV [John Virgo]. My member got maine immoderate painkillers.

“I woke up with it again. Going retired for the archetypal frame, there’s truthful overmuch intensity, your bosom is racing, the lights are rather antithetic and it was truthful warm.

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“I conscionable felt similar my caput was going to explode. So I had to get retired of determination and conscionable instrumentality immoderate much painkillers, but interaction wood, it’s not excessively atrocious now.”

Maguire – who came done 2 rounds of qualifying successful Leicester – was downbeat aft “one of the worst performances ever” and could not enactment retired what had transpired.

The Scotsman, 43, said: “It was rubbish, there’s thing much that I tin say. Just garbage.

“It was a hard 1 to take. What tin you do? You conscionable spell location and spot what the adjacent time brings.

“You can’t explicate that. It was 1 of the worst performances ever. I’m struggling to judge however atrocious that was.”