Selby blew himself up in the bathroom of last year's World Championships: Overcoming mental illness was the biggest snooker event I won.
As the most successful post-80s player among the active snooker professionals, Selby holds 4 World Championships, 3 Masters and 2 British Championship championship trophies, and has locked in the year-end world first for 7 consecutive years, which is naturally one of the big stars that makes the outside world and other professional players envious and covets his achievements. However, he himself was saddled with great unknown pain and mental illness.
He told Eurosport in a recent interview that the 2020 World Championship semi-finals held 3 match points but encountered O'Sullivan's "power out of the miracle" magic solution 16-17 to complete the reversal of the lost championship, since then the psychological problems have shown a recurrence of the old disease, after the patient guidance of personal psychological coaches, in the 2021 World Championships successfully won the championship to get out of the shadows and regain the world number one from Trump,But the 2021 World Championship final against Murphy when the audience repeatedly "applauded" Once again, I let myself fall into the death entanglement of "psychological disease".
So far in the new season, Selby's best result at almost full attendance has been the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix, where he suffered five consecutive runs from Neil Robertson since losing to the opponent at last year's World Championship. Achieving five consecutive wins at the world number one once made Robertson proud. For the rest of the event, Selby mostly stopped in the first four rounds. Such a poor performance finally allowed the world first world champion double first Selby to say the real reason for the loss after the London Masters.
After the bloodbath of his best friend Hawkins, who had just ended 1-6 in the 1/4 final of the London Masters, in the interview, he would bury the "secret" in his heart for more than a decade and finally tell the world because he could not hold back - I could no longer wear a mask to continue to live, I admitted that I had mental illness and needed the help of others to start a glorious snooker road correctly, I needed to unload the pressure on my shoulders and deal with depression head-on. Of all the big tournaments (championships) I've won throughout my career, overcoming my mental illness was the biggest race I've won.
In fact, the 2021 World Championship champion has always been controversial, and many fans and spectators have questioned Selby's ability to consume the patience of the other side by slowing down the pace of the game to win his fourth crown. Selby thought the Crucible crowd at the time felt disgraceful in the way he won the title. Even, in the World Championship final against Murphy, some spectators applauded Selby, which not only made him feel that he did not get the respect and applause that a champion should receive, but also hurt him. He told Eurosport that he shed tears when he walked into the bathroom.
But no matter how low he is now, or how bad he is, the tenacious Selby always believes that he has the ability to find a better competitive state by seeking the help of a psychiatrist and his own efforts. (Code words are very troublesome, please click to pay attention to moisturizer AB thank you)