Stephen Hendry's bid to reach World Championship ended by Peter Lines

Seven-times world champion Hendry was beaten 3-0 in the semi-finals by Leeds cueman Peter Lines.

Now aged 48, Hendry retired after being knocked out of the 2012 World Championship by Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals.

This week's event at Scunthorpe's Baths Hall offers the winner a place in the World Championship qualifying event, which takes place next month in the days leading up to the main event.

And although Hendry won his opening match on Thursday, the Scot was well beaten by Lines, a 47-year-old amateur who remains active on the main tour and beat the defending champion Neil Robertson at the UK Championship in November.

Hendry showed flashes of his class but said: "I didn't play well. It feels like somebody else's arm out there.

"Peter played very solid and he deserves to be in the final. You need to be a bit sharper to compete."

Another former world champion in 52-year-old John Parrott awaited Lines in Friday evening's final.