MAX Whitlock may have grabbed a stunning silver medal in the all around final at the World Gymnastics Championships, but he will still be holding talks with coach Scott Hann to review what went wrong now the pair are back in Basildon.

Whitlock endured a rare off day during qualification in China and was only able to take part in the all around final after team-mate Nile Wilson pulled out to rest a wrist injury.

Whitlock also failed to make any of the individual finals before returning to his best just a few days later to add another medal to ever growing collection.

But that will not stop Hann trying to get to the bottom of why things did not immediately go to plan.

“We will definitely be talking about what went wrong and why we think it happened,” said Hann.

“It won’t be happening right away but I think it’s important we do it because it was probably the worst performance of Max’s life.

“I think the fact it came so soon after the highs of the Commonwealth Games was a major reason and I could tell Max was a little tired.

“But we will be looking at outside influences and maybe the pressure that’s being put on him.

“It’s hard to deal with when you’re only 21 so we will be looking at it all.

“However the way Max responded it to all was amazing.

“It wasn’t easy for him to go back out there and do it all again for the team final.

“He was really hurting so for me the way he was able to perform like that was actually the highlight of our time out there.”

Whitlock’s displays helped the team finish fourth in the final before he received an unexpected second chance in the all around competition.

However, Hann admitted Whitlock originally felt he did not deserve to line up in the final and it therefore took him a while to get his sights set back on his routines.

“We had to get Max’s mind right which took a little while and we had to do a lot of talking,” said Hann.

“There was a lot of emotion involved and I was quite anxious when we got back out there.

“I just wanted him to smash the pommel horse because he hadn’t done that in the World Championships before.

“I wasn’t too fussed what happened after that but not only did he score 16 on the pommel, which would’ve won silver in the individual final, he grabbed it all by the scruff off the neck and for him to be second to his hero, Kohei Uchimura.

“Max was also the closest anyone has ever been to Uchimura and that in itself is an incredible achievement.”