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Jimmy White has finished runner-up astatine the World Championship six timesJimmy White says helium is "playing excessively well" not to suffice for adjacent month's World Championship aft reaching past 16 of the World Snooker Tour Classic.
He has not reached the last stages of the World Championshipsince 2006, with qualifying opening connected April 3.
"I'll beryllium getting to the Crucible," said White.
"I americium playing excessively well. I'll instrumentality a mates of days disconnected present and get backmost to signifier connected Friday."
White won the opening framework against Pang to rise hopes of a quarter-final place, but Pang won the adjacent 4 to acceptable up a gathering with Oliver Lines.
"I americium playing ok, I conscionable ran retired of steam" added White, who became the archetypal subordinate aged 60 oregon over to scope the past 16 of a ranking lawsuit for 31 years astatine the German Masters past month.
"I'm truly disappointed that I didn't compete. I won the archetypal framework past I should person gone 2-0 up. I felt mentally drained.
"The buzz should get you done that, but I was bushed and I was cueing poorly from the 2nd framework onwards.
"Pang is 1 of my favourite Chinese players and I privation him each the champion due to the fact that he's a hard worker.
"But to bushed the 3 players I person beaten this week, and past not produce, is simply a disappointment."
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