Stephen Hendry fires back immediately after being asked about snooker comeback
Stephen Hendry has candidly admitted that he has no intention of making another snooker comeback, following a question posed by Neil Robertson.
The 56-year-old Scotsman was joined by the Australian star on his YouTube channel 'Stephen Hendry's Cue Tips' earlier this week.
Hendry first retired from the sport in 2012 after an impressive 27-year professional career that included 18 Triple Crown tournament victories.
He also won a then-unmatched record of seven World Snooker Championship titles, a feat since equalled by Ronnie O'Sullivan. The snooker icon participated in 57 ranking finals as well, triumphing in an incredible 36 of them.
However, eight years later, he made an unexpected return when he accepted a two-year invitational tour card for the main World Snooker Tour, citing improved form and confidence.
Despite only winning three out of 20 matches during his four-year stint on the tour, Hendry announced his second retirement from snooker last year, even though he had been offered the chance to continue on the main tour with a two-year invitational card.
Since then, he has concentrated on his punditry work, his YouTube channel, which is close to reaching 400,000 subscribers, and co-hosting the Snooker Club podcast with Mark Watson.
On the popular channel, during a lighthearted game with Robertson, Hendry sunk the black ball, prompting the 2010 world champion to jest: "You going to make a second comeback with the way you're playing?" To which Hendry responded with a smile: "No," reports the Express.
Despite being hailed as one of snooker's all-time greats, Hendry humbly omitted himself from his own version of the sport's Mount Rushmore when tasked with selecting five legends for the Hall of Fame on the Snooker Club.
"It's very close between Mark Williams and John Higgins, I'd prefer to have them joint-second," he admitted. "I'll go with Mark just because of his recent record against John at the Crucible.
"He is a freak of nature, he has the best temperament of any sportsman I have seen. He maybe hasn't got the cue power of others, but he has great touch, and he is just a brilliant potter."
Mark Selby, the four-time world champion, was placed fourth by Hendry, who then faced a tough choice between current world No. 1 Judd Trump and six-time world champion Steve Davis for the final spot.
"In fifth could be Judd Trump because of what he has won and his centuries, but he only has one world title," he reasoned. "So I'm going for Steve Davis based on his utter domination of the 1980s."
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