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Tue 05 May 2007Hendry's title wait goes onSNOOKER/World Championship:Stephen Hendry's 13-6 world championship defeat by Allister Carter here in Sheffield means the seven-times champion will go for more than 27 months without winning a title of any kind."For some reason I can't reproduce my practice form in a match," the 38-year-old Scot confessed. "I don't seem to cue with the same freedom.