Wilson said his cue and the table were “awful” in the defeat by Slessor.<\/p>\n
The cue Wilson used to win the world title was damaged while being refurbished at the start of this season.<\/p>\n
“I want to smash the place up. I am so angry at what has happened,” he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a freak accident that was totally out of my control that has ruined the cue that I felt like I was conquering the world with.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know where to look next.<\/p>\n
“I have had different cue makers. I was at a cue manufacturer last night trying to sort something out.<\/p>\n
“I was changing ferrules, changing tips. I must have picked up six yesterday. How can you go and win a match like that?”<\/p>\n
Discussing the table, he said: “It was just guesswork.<\/p>\n
“When you don’t know where the balls are going to go, especially on tight pockets and unplayable conditions, it’s just a recipe for disaster.”<\/p>\n
Slessor, who will play 2024 runner-up and fellow Englishman Barry Hawkins in the last 16, said: “I found it tight and thought the cloth had minimal grip, but it’s had a lot of games on it.”<\/p>\n
Six-time world champion Steve Davis said it was a “bad day in the office” for Wilson.<\/p>\n
“The sheen goes off the cloth and it can be a difficult session to play,” he said. “It can sometimes drag the level down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson said his cue and the table were “awful” in the defeat by Slessor. The cue Wilson used…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-172982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}