Stephen Maguire produces ‘one of the worst performances ever’ at UK Championship

Stephen Maguire was near disgusted with his show successful a 6-0 thrashing astatine the hands of Kyren Wilson astatine the UK Championship.

The Scot came done qualifying and was expected to supply a trial for the satellite champion but was a precise agelong mode from his fantabulous best.

The 2004 victor of this lawsuit finished with a cookware occurrence complaint of conscionable 57 per cent and a precocious interruption of 32.

Wilson didn’t person to find his champion worldly to people the whitewash win, but did look bully astatine the end, making breaks of 71 and 86 successful the last 2 frames, the lone 2 half-centuries of the match.

Maguire was near baffled by his display, telling the BBC: ‘Rubbish, there’s thing much I tin say. Just garbage.

‘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.’

The 43-year-old added connected Eurosport: ‘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 best-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.’

Shaun Murphy connected punditry work connected the BBC 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, who volition look Chris Wakelin successful the past 16, felt conditions were hard astatine the Barbican successful York.

‘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.’

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