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I won 7 snooker World Championships but this is the one part of the sport that I've always hated
@Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
Snooker great Stephen Hendry says he couldn't stand doing post-match interviews because he's such a bad loser. The seven-time world champion was known in his career for his spiky post-match comments, and says his still regrets a barbed comment at fellow Scot Marcus Campbell after finding himself on the end of a 9-0 whitewash against the Dumbarton Destroyer. Since retiring Hendry has worked for a pundit for the BBC and ITV, and admits he doesn't find things any easier on the other side of the mic, after an embarrassing moment at the Masters . Hendry told the Snooker Club podcast: "I was asked to do two loser interviews at the Masters which I’ve never done before. It was horrific. I didn’t know what to say or what to ask. "I’ve never been in that mentality, I know how I’ve felt having lost a match and I kept wondering what to say. "The first one I did was Chris Wakelin lost. I’ve got a microphone and I forgot to put the microphone to him when he was speaking, so I had to start again. "I remember thinking oh my God he must think who is this guy? If I was Chris Wakelin I’d have thought ‘sod this, I’m off, you don’t even know how to interview someone’. "I found that really weird doing a loser interview. Hopefully I did it badly enough they won’t ask me to do it again." Asked about his own playing career, Hendry continued: "If you lose a match then you’re basically straight into a press room and you don’t get a chance to sort of cool down or calm down. "I’ve done two or three interviews after I’ve lost where I’ve basically just answered every question in one word. Yes or no. "Looking back it’s bad for me to do it the journalists who are only doing their job asking you questions. But to catch you just after you’ve lost a match, I just hated that. "I was such a bad loser. Going back to my 9-0 hammering from Marcus Campbell (at the 1998 UK Championship) I did a press conference after it. "They asked about my opponent and if he was good. I said I was terrible, he was alright but he’s not going to win the tournament. "I was very disparaging about him and I went to apologise to him at the next tournament because I was out of order."
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