Stephen Maguire PUNCHES table in anger after threatening to ‘wreck the place’ in tense Welsh Open snooker final

STEPHEN Maguire could not hide his frustrations during a tense Welsh Open final.

The Scot, 43, was facing off against Mark Selby at Venue Cymru in Llandudno.

At 2-1 down in frames, Maguire made a costly mistake that cost him the frame against The Jester from Leicester.

On Fire was losing the frame 30-24, when he played a poor positional shot that left him in a sticky situation.

After analysing the situation, he was forced to play for safety instead of going for a pot.

But, before he played his shot, Maguire banged the top of the table as he rued his bad effort.

To make matters worse, he left the door open for Selby who went on to clear the table with a break of 78.

Maguire is back in a ranking final after a five year wait.

After beating Ali Carter in the semi-final, he admitted he could struggle to keep his emotions in check if the final against Selby begins to slip away from him.

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“Who knows what to expect,” he told the BBC.

“In hindsight Mark has probably played better than me all week, I’ve been scraping my way through just winning matches somehow.

“I’m just hoping that I can find some form somehow and play the way that I should. Right now I’m not thinking about the rankings, I just want that title.

“I don’t think either of us played that well, but I just thought that I wasn’t going to win that with the way things were going. I couldn’t quite finish it off and when I did, little things were happening. I’m just glad I got over the line.

“I found it easy to keep my composure because I was playing him (Carter). He was cracking up, the rest was getting thrown about, extensions were getting thrown about. I thought, is that the way I act? I think I better change if that’s the way that I act.”