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"I’m a bit more like myself again" - Break from darts working wonders for Lewis who refuses to rule out future return
PDCSunday, 24 September 2023 at 10:00
Adrian Lewis announced in April that he was temporarily taking a break from his career. However, the two-time former world champion is not ruling out a return.
"Why am I taking a break? I think after 20 years of doing it, I think I just needed freshening up a bit," Lewis opens up to Daily Star. "I was getting a bit stale. The buzz wasn’t there. My wife hasn’t been very well, so I have been in hospital with her a lot of the time. You could call it burnout but, for me, it had been going on for a while. My mind wasn’t at the darts."
“I still won a tournament last season. I was still going deep into tournaments and I qualified for all the TV events, so it wasn’t really about my form. It was just that I didn’t want to be there," he continues. “My mind wasn’t there, and I didn’t think it was fair if I kept turning up when someone else could have had my spot - someone who could have given 100 per cent. The truth is, I wasn’t giving 100%. My mind was elsewhere.”
Nevertheless, it still wasn't an easy decision for Lewis. "It wasn’t like a rash decision where I decided to walk away on the spur of the moment," he explains. “I had been talking to my wife about it. She just said, 'Basically you have got to do what you have got to do. No-one can tell you but yourself.' I just replied, 'Well that’s it then - I am taking a break.' It has just taken a bit of pressure off really. I feel like I’m a bit more like myself again, a bit more bubbly instead of being down in the dumps all the time."
“When I won my first world title, I was sometimes on the board 15 hours a day. I was literally on it from dawn till dusk. I used to have people in on shifts (as practice partners), four or five hours at a time. It was relentless," recalls 'Jackpot'. "I won it and then I thought all the hard work had paid off had paid off because of all the effort I had put in. But let's get real: You are never happy. OK, so you have won a world title, and then a second, but you always want more.”
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