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May 7, 2019

Terrible At Snooker? Pro Player’s Awful Shot Might Help You Feel Better [Video]

Gary Wilson might have qualified for the semi-final of the World Snooker Championship, but even the pros have the odd shocker.

You probably reckon you could make that shot, right?

Who knows what happens afterwards, and where the white ball will end up, but I back you to pot that red.

Gary Wilson would have backed himself, too, especially having made it to the semi-final of the World Snooker Championship.

Facing off against Judd Trump (no relation to that other guy), who would eventually go on to win the tournament, Wilson suffered a horrible miscue.

Happens to the best of us, Gaz:

Not your best work.

Still, just making the semi-final was a huge accomplishment. Below from Buzz:

The Wallsend 33-year-old endured six years off the tour and took jobs as a taxi driver, a barman and a production line worker in a frozen foods factory before grasping his second chance.

Wilson said: “I dropped off the tour and I wasn’t good enough to get back on. I was having all these uncertain times when I didn’t know if I was going to be a pro again.

“I was desperate to get back on the tour and just scrape a living. So to go from that point to where I am now, in the one-table set-up, is absolutely amazing and the sort of thing you dream of.”

Gary also scored a £100 000 payday for his semi-final finish, so that should help ease the pain of that horrid miscue.

[source:buzz]