"I feel like I’ve let myself down": James Wade will see career as a failure if another major title isn't won
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James Wade will see his career as being a failure if he doesn't manage to return to the top eight or win another major title he has admitted ahead of the UK Open.
Wade has often been seen as the nearly man at the World Championship in particular perhaps the only glaring accolade not in his cabinet. But 'The Machine' who has won 10 TV titles in his career wants to win another for his own sanity.
He said that he still think he is a top eight player and that he is good enough as well as that he sees his career as being an injustice if he can't convert another opportunity to see it through.
“I still know that I’m good enough for a top-eight player, more than good enough. Other people might not think that, but that’s how I feel and that’s how I know I am," he said on the Love the Darts Podcast.
“It’s not something I’m relishing, not something I’m going to enjoy, but I need to get back up there for my own sanity, I think, because I believe I should be there. I feel like I’ve let myself down by being in the positions I’ve put myself in.”
But he continued that he sees it as being a factor for personal reasons more than for his legacy and that he wouldn't celebrate his legacy if he couldn't add to his tally.
“I’ve won more tournaments than most and not many people know that. I’ve done myself an injustice, how I’ve conducted myself at times and that’s my own fault. That’s not a legacy that’s celebrated as it would be if it was other players that have not won as much but have got more.
“I need to do it, for personal reasons. I know where I should be and if I finish up the game where I am now, that would be a failure in my eyes.
“I know I can still win TV titles. I know what I can do and I know what I’m capable of. I don’t have to be at my very best to do that, but the timing’s got to be right.
“I’ve just got to be in the right place at the right time for myself and then hopefully that I can get myself up for the rankings, where the early doors and the draws are a little bit kinder to me.”
"I've let myself down" ❌
— Sky Sports Darts (@SkySportsDarts) February 25, 2025
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