08 2024 Daniel Hillier is interviewed prior to the Betfred British Masters at the Belfry

well Dan it's lovely to see you back here at the Bell fre obviously incredibly great and fun memories from last year what's it feel coming back here as defending Champion yeah it was it was weird seeing uh the poster of my face out the front of the hotel um but yeah I feel it feels great to be back obviously um you know coming back and you s of walking around and you get flashbacks from the year before and yeah it's all all pretty cool feeling um it's come off a a nice 3E break so I'm feeling pretty fresh and uh yeah hopefully I can try and recreate some of those memories here not too much jet lag from that long flight from New Zealand uh no it's about bedtime right now so um yeah feeling a little bit but yeah actually get a good night sleep last night at least and uh yeah I should be should be right by Thursday what emotions did you have coming back here to the belfrey after that incredible win last year it was just yeah just trying to soak it up really it's been um been a pretty big year um and I've just yeah basically been looking forward to this event uh for for a while now and yeah now I'm back here I can sort of soak it up and um yeah relive some of those memories last year what stands out from that round that 66 15 16 and 17 obviously were massive holes for you yeah absolutely um I haven't uh seen that stretch yet um this year to you know to properly soak it all in again but um yeah I mean that was obviously pretty pretty amazing way to finish it off last year and uh yeah so hopefully um yeah try and take advantage of those holes again best Lu this week thank you very much