‘Some people don’t see it’ – Stephen Hendry opens up on health condition that forced him into snooker retirement

STEPHEN HENDRY has opened up connected the wrist information that caused him to discontinue from snooker.

The Scottish snooker icon, 56, hung up his cue past summertime aft turning down a two-year circuit card.

This was the 2nd clip Hendry had telephone it quits, initially retiring successful 2012 earlier returning successful 2020.

The seven-time satellite champion struggled to execute large results upon his return, calling it a time amid vexation with his performances.

Opening up connected his snooker exit, helium said: "Let's beryllium honest, I wasn't pulling up immoderate trees, was I?

"I was a small spot amazed with however bully the modular was, but I've conscionable got truthful galore different enactment commitments, I won't beryllium capable to dedicate capable clip to practising.

"I cognize the crippled wrong out, I inactive cognize each the shots, but unluckily the assemblage is not performing similar my encephalon wants it to."

Hendry past opened up connected suffering with "the yips".

The yips involves involuntary musculus spasms and tin impact players successful different sports including darts and golf.

Hendry added: "If I didn’t person the yips and I could play, I would inactive play.

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"I can’t spell done the shot decently and I can’t hold astatine the back.

"There are definite shots I cognize I can’t cookware and they tin beryllium the easiest pots successful the satellite oregon casual positional shots. I hatred it.

"I don’t cognize wherever it came from. Some radical don’t spot it but it’s horrible and that’s wherefore I retired."

It was agelong believed that suffering from the yips was ever down to show anxiety.

But further probe has shown that it tin beryllium linked to a neurological information called focal dystonia.

Hendry present works arsenic a commentator and pundit for the BBC.