JAMES WADE believes he has let himself down as he bids to return to the elite level of the sport.
The 10-times major winner has enjoyed a good start to the season on the ProTour, reaching the last-16 of the Players Championship 3 before making the quarter-finals in Players Championship 4.
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However, Wade is absent from the Premier League line-up for a third straight season and has endured three successive second-round exits at the PDC World Darts Championship.
‘The Machine’ admits he would be disappointed to finish his career without any further success in the PDC majors.
He told the Love The Darts podcast: “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.
“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.”
World No.14 Wade enters the UK Open at Butlin’s Minehead Resort with a bye into the fourth round on Friday, as he aims to impress and contend for his fourth career title at the event.
He added: “I’ve won more tournaments than most and not many people know that.
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“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.”
