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Snooker star form warning
Former world champion Peter Ebdon has taken the unusual step of releasing a statement to play down his chances of winning a match.
Ebdon, who fell out of the world's top 16 last season and is now ranked 18th, is due to marry this weekend and then play a qualifying match for the Roewe Shanghai Masters next week. The 39-year-old's warning about how he may potentially play is understood to have been made to provide bookmakers with advance notice.
Ebdon said: "I consider that I will not be in a position to play to the best of my ability in my qualifying match in Sheffield next week. This is down to personal circumstances, including the fact that I am getting re-married in Hungary this weekend. Since playing in Thailand I have not been able to practise, and by the time the qualifiers come around I will not have played for 10 days or more. I know just how bad I can be when I don't feel properly prepared as I am the type who needs to practise hard in order to play to a reasonable standard."
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