Oxfordshire star Deta Hedman is still trying to come to terms with how her Lakeside World Championship dream turned to disaster.

The No 2 seed arrived at Frimley Green with the world at her fingertips after collecting a host of titles in 2010 including the British Classic, the England Masters and the Dutch, Finland and Sweden Opens.

But the 51-year-old, who hails from Jamaica, left one of the game’s greatest stages devastated by her woeful display in a 2-0 semi-final annihilation by Wales’s Rhian Edwards and unsure of her future in the sport.

“The annoying thing was I was playing so well coming into it and thought I could hit a peak, but instead I ended up in the pits,” said a distraught Hedman.

“If anything I put so much on trying to win it and I didn’t bank on playing that bad – that is just it.

“My head was all over the place for whatever reason.

“The more I tried to get on top of it the worse it got.

“I just couldn’t do anything to get myself out of the rut.

“It was just one of those things.”

Hedman failed to win a leg against Edwards, who went on to lose 2-0 in the final against nine-times champion Trina Gulliver, who used to play for The Shears, Wantage.

“I was just like a non-starter – just like someone beginning to play darts,” added Hedman.

“I really did feel quite awful. I just got home as quickly as possible.”

Hedman, who is based at Witham in Essex, had set her sights on getting to the final and lifting the trophy after going out in the semi-finals to Gulliver last year.

“I put too much pressure on myself to do even more, and I know that is why I wanted to get there so badly,” she added.

“I don’t know if I was trying too hard, but it was just not happening. I couldn’t switch off.”

Now she is unsure of what the future holds - especially as she was competing against the background of fighting for her job as a postal worker.

Just two days before her unconvincing 2-1 quarter-final win against Belgium’s Patricia de Peuter her appeal was heard – the result of which she is still awaiting.

“I think once the work situation is sorted and I know where I am with it, I can go from there,” she said.

“It is going to be very difficult this year because one of the things I wanted was to get to the final and that would have opened things up a bit more.

“But the performance didn’t help. I know I can play a lot better.

“We will see how it goes.”