Marcus Campbell gave Stephen Hendry his worst defeat last night when he whitewashed his fellow Scot 9-0 to reach the last 32 of the UK Championship in Bournemouth.
"It hasn't sunk in yet and it probably won't until I get home and tell my friends that I've just beaten the six-times world champion and many-times world number one 9-0," Campbell said. "But while I'm still on cloud nine there was no way I was going to lose this match."
"Stephen just seems to be lacking in confidence," said the world number 73, who now meets Australia's Quinten Hann in the second round. "He was strolling round the table as though he had got a million problems on his mind."
Five-times UK champion Hendry, still one victory away from equalling Steve Davis's all-time best of six, did not pull any punches about his sorry display. "This result has been coming for probably 18 months to two years. My confidence has been going down and down and at the end I couldn't wait to get out of there," said the 29-year-old Scot.
"I was watching myself on television this afternoon against Steve Davis in the 1990 UK Championship and it looked as though there were two different players."
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