Snooker star delivers 'garbage' performance at UK Championships - 'Never seen that before'

Stephen Maguire, the victor of this lawsuit successful 2004, could lone maestro a highest interruption of 32 and a cookware occurrence complaint of 57 per cent arsenic helium delivered a show that helium couldn't bring himself to defend

Stephen Maguire delivered 1 of the worst performances ever seen astatine the UK Championships arsenic helium was thrashed 6-0 by Kyren Wilson.

The Scot, the victor of this lawsuit successful 2004, could lone maestro a highest interruption of 32 and a cookware occurrence complaint of 57 per cent arsenic helium delivered a show that helium couldn't bring himself to defend.

"Rubbish, there’s thing much I tin say. Just garbage," helium told BBC Sport aft the loss. It’s a hard 1 to take, what tin you do? Just spell location and spot what the adjacent time brings.

"I can’t explicate it, you can’t explicate that, it’s 1 of the worst performances ever. I’m struggling to judge however atrocious that was."

In a seprate interrogation with Eurosport, Maguire added: "I’ve nary words for that. Well I person got a word, but I won’t accidental it.

"Listen, it’s thing to bash with the tally of the ball, I was garbage. One happening to beryllium blessed about, astatine slightest it wasn’t a champion of 19 due to the fact that that would person been 10-0. At slightest I tin spell location tonight. I person to support trying. Obviously that lucifer there, I haven’t got a connection for it, but hopefully it’s a one-off."

BBC commentator Shaun Murphy said: "The 57 per cent cookware occurrence of Stephen Maguire, I’ve ne'er seen that before. Who knows wherefore he’s had specified a atrocious day. We’ve each had them, I consciousness for him, but helium volition beryllium back.

Wilson was besides near astatine somewhat of a nonaccomplishment to picture was efficaciously amounted to a walkover.

"It was a unusual match,’ helium said. ‘Early doors some of america were going into the battalion and not truly landing connected a shot and having to play safe.

"For me, the array was truthful hard to judge, I don’t cognize if that was what was incorrect with Stephen today, evidently helium didn’t allude to that. But I felt similar everything was drifting to the close if you were playing it slow.

"When you person to commencement hitting the shot harder connected these tables the pockets are truthful unforgiving it makes the crippled harder and harder. I conscionable had to effort and enactment composed."