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A Tough Break for HendryThe cue that Stephen Hendry has used for 20 years was smashed as he returned from Thailand, and the Scot now faces an anxious wait to see if it can be saved. The seven-times world champion was heading back to the UK from Bangkok after playing in the Euro-Asia Challenge. Since the September 11 attacks, snooker players have had to store their cues in the hold of aeroplanes rather than carry them as hand luggage. “As soon as we touched down in London they contacted me and said my cue had been damaged,” said 34-year-old Hendry. “They don’t do that when it’s just a scratch – so right away I feared the worst. “When I eventually got my cue in Glasgow, the case was held together with tape – and the cue looked like a shepherds crook! The butt-end is broken in two. I just don’t know if it can be repaired but it’s in the right hands now.” He has given it to ‘cue doctor’ Lawrie Annandale who has known Hendry since his junior days and is now trying to repair the damage. “I’ve had the cue since I was 14,” added the world No 2. “It cost forty quid then, but I couldn’t put a price on it now. My good friend Mark Williams had his cue bent flying to Ireland earlier this year – and went on and won the world title.” World Snooker - 4/9/2003 |
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