It’s unprejudiced to say that Stephen Maguire wasn’t adviseing any excparticipates after being whitewashed by Kyren Wilson at the UK Championship. After coming thraw qualifying, Maguire was foreseeed to recurrent a tricky test for the current world champion, only for Wilson to romp home 6-0.
But it wasn’t the carry outance of the Englishman, who only made two half-century fractures despite his resounding triumph, that was in the spotweightless afterwards.
Instead, much of the intensify was on a calamitous distake part by 2004 triumphner Maguire, who could only produce a high fracture of 32.
And the establisher world No.2 wasn’t in the mood to go effortless on himself afterwards, lambasting his distake part to the BBC. “Rubbish, there’s noskinnyg more I can say,” he replied, when asked to summoccur his effort. “Just garbage.
“It’s a challenging one to get, what can you do? Just go home and see what the next day transports. I can’t clear up it, you can’t clear up that, it’s one of the worst carry outances ever. I’m struggling to depend how horrible that was.”
Maguire, 43, beat Artemijs Zizins in his first provisional suit, before sealing a place in the main draw in a final structure cliffhanger with Elliot Slesser. But those triumphs showd a inedit dawn, and he also implied his harrotriumphg shotriumphg would now see him conlureardy his future in the sport.
“I either skinnyk of what I’m doing in this game or I push forwards and do some challenging graft,” he shelp. “Everyskinnyg is a bit of a blur from the second structure onwards. That was lower, there’s no other words.
“I still disenjoy getting beaten, but I also disenjoy take parting enjoy that. There’s getting beaten and there’s not shotriumphg up. For me to finishelight it, I necessitate to take part well and be competitive.”
To compound matters for Maguire, Wilson crudowncasted thraw despite seemingly suffering with a migraine. He uncovered afterwards that he necessitateed to get medication after the first two structures as he was struggling to intensify.
“It felt enjoy my head was going to explode,” he shelp. “It was someskinnyg I had to loss and thankfilledy my brother got me some headache tablets and I was able to get it under handle.”
Wilson will now take part Chris Waken in the last-16, and will be eying a genuine chance to go all the way in the Triple Crown event for the first time. Four of the 16 seeded take parters have been rerelocated over the uncovering two days, including 2023 champion Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby.
