Stephen Hendry opens up on the secret condition that destroyed his game
Stephen Hendry is the most successful snooker player of our generation.
The seven-time world champion is ahead of the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Alex Higgins and Steve Davis in the green baize pantheon.
But his career has not always been plain sailing, as he reveals as he tells his amazing life story in a new autobiography Me and the Table, serialised exclusively in the Mirror.
The book tells of all his winning highs, as well as the lows when life snookered him.
In this extract, Hendry opens up on the condition that destroyed his game – and how it means he will not be able to return to the table now….
“I can’t overstate the part the yips played in bringing my career to a close. I think the word yips trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
“It affects golfers, causing them to struggle with what should be simple putts. In my case, the inability to cue ‘through’ the ball results in weak shots.
“There is a debate about whether the yips is a physical or psychological condition, or a mixture of both.
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