Seven time Snooker World Champion Stephen Hendry could be set to make a sensational return to the sport.

The 51-year-old retired from the sport in 2012 after dominating throughout the 90’s and continuing his form into the early 2000’s, but after beginning to suffer more defeats than a multiple time World Champion is use to, hung up his jacket eight years ago.

However, after working with Steve Feeney recently Hendry has rediscovered his love of the game in a professional capacity.

Speaking to Ken Doherty on Instagram live, Hendry said: “I’ve been doing a wee bit with Steven Feeney and I’ve started to get a bit of pleasure from hitting the ball back,

“I’d done about half a dozen sessions with him and I was getting quite into it, then obviously this [coronavirus] has happened. Hopefully, Praise God if Sheffield is on, if he’s there, he’ll maybe give me a few hits.

“He asked me what I wanted from it in the beginning and I just said, I want to enjoy playing snooker, that’s all. The way I was playing, even in the Seniors. Not hitting the ball properly, it was just torture really, it’s the last throw of the dice.”

Feeney, the man behind the innovative SightRight training technique previously with Ronnie O’Sullivan and 2018 World Champion Mark Williams.

The Senior World Championship is planned for August, and that could be a potential route into the Champion of Champions event further down the line. Sheffield’s Crucible theatre is set to host the Senior Worlds following the rescheduled World Championship in mid August, whether that be in front of an audience of not.