{"id":8418,"date":"2026-02-20T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/table-punching-injury-left-menzies-close-to-quitting-darts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:05:02","slug":"table-punching-injury-left-menzies-close-to-quitting-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/table-punching-injury-left-menzies-close-to-quitting-darts\/","title":{"rendered":"Table-punching injury left Menzies close to quitting darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published21 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cameron Menzies says he was close to &quot;wrapping&quot; up his darts career as the hand injury he suffered punching a drinks table at the PDC World Championship has left him with &quot;no feeling&quot; in the fingers of his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot repeatedly struck the underside of the table following a first-round defeat at Alexandra Palace in December with blood then pouring from the wound.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after winning his opening match at the Poland Darts Open on Friday against Ritchie Edhouse, Menzies described &quot;struggling massively&quot; in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Basically, I&#x27;ve no feeling in my fingers anymore because of the damage I&#x27;ve done,&quot; he told Oche 180.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ll be honest &#8211; there&#x27;s a few times I&#x27;ve felt like wrapping it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m just not in a good place. Obviously we all know what happened at the worlds. I&#x27;ve done a lot of damage to myself.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Menzies has previously apologised for losing his temper at the World Championship, saying it had been a difficult time following the death of an uncle.<\/p>\n<p>But the incident left him considering his future in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was great to win [today]. Honestly, I was so close to pulling out this weekend. I&#x27;m just not enjoying it at the moment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old added that surgeons have told him he was fortunate not to have severed any nerves or tendons but that he should gradually recover following further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I couldn&#x27;t feel my fingers for six weeks. I had to go through surgery. I&#x27;ve still to go through hand treatment and trauma,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve made a massive mistake in my life. You can see the scar.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They said [the feeling] will come back, but I have to live with the reputation of being a table puncher. It&#x27;s not a proud moment of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We all make mistakes. Unfortunately I made a big mistake and have to accept it.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/darts\">Darts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/darts\/articles\/c62vd6n9y5po\">\n<p>Menzies apologises for punching table after loss<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published15 December 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table-punching injury left Menzies close to quitting dartsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Cameron Menzies, pictured in October, lost his temper after being knocked out of the World Championsh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}