‘I’m back!’ – Luca Brecel ‘feeling really good’ after difficult season as world champion | JCM1Q1F | 2024-02-13 16:08:01
'I'm back!' – Luca Brecel 'feeling really good' after difficult season as world champion | JCM1Q1F | 2024-02-13 16:08:01
Luca Brecel says he's again, feeling good again on and off the desk after a particularly troublesome season so far as world champion.
The Belgian Bullet has not been to a ranking quarter-final since he gained the World Championship in beautiful fashion in Might final yr.
He has struggled for wins of any type in current weeks, dropping in the first spherical of the Masters and German Masters, whereas he didn't qualify for the World Grand Prix, which features the top 32 players on the one-year ranking record.
Nevertheless, he has been training arduous and obtained back to profitable ways in the opening spherical of the Welsh Open on Monday, beating Jiang Jun 4-3.
It's a slender win over the world quantity 109, so nothing to get overly enthusiastic about, however Brecel says confidence is returning and he feels extra just like the participant that shocked the world final season than the one that has struggled so much this campaign.
'Good,' he informed Eurosport of how he's feeling. 'Once I obtained an opportunity in the final frame I felt like I used to be going to make a break. In my head I'm actually good in the meanwhile, feeling actually good.
'My focus is on Saudi Arabia [World Masters of Snooker] and the Worlds. That is…not follow, however making an attempt to really feel good and find something. I've been training quite a bit and feeling good off the table as nicely. I'm back!'
The 28-year-old memorably claimed to have carried out little or no apply ahead of his World Championship win, but he has been back on the table as he tries to show his season round.
'Day by day I've been enjoying and enjoying it as nicely,' he stated. 'Once I do follow I take pleasure in it every time and just making an attempt to get fitter as nicely, I've lost a little bit of weight, I'm on a weight-reduction plan. I'm feeling actually good.'
He could also be on his approach again to his greatest, he isn't there but although, admitting that he has gained so few matches of late that he has struggled to feel like knowledgeable player.
'I really feel like not in the recreation,' he stated. 'I just don't feel like a professional snooker player in the meanwhile. Because I'm not enjoying sufficient matches and never profitable sufficient. You all the time go house with not a glad feeling, you attempt to discover that feeling and it by no means comes.
'I want one run. I really feel like I'm enjoying the same as I've all the time been enjoying, however it's simply not on the desk like that.
'I've been enjoying for therefore lengthy, I know it's going to return again, it might be any time.'
His probability to extend his current run comes within the second round in Llandudno towards Joe O'Connor on Wednesday.
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