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Ronnie O'Sullivan has won 38 ranking finals and lost 22 in a remarkable run of cue ball consistency stretching back to 1993, a year after the snooker GOAT turned professional. O'Sullivan's ranking event success spans an astonishing four decades since becoming the youngest winner of the UK Championship with a 10-6 victory over Stephen Hendry at the age of 17 years and 358 days in November 1993.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has likened the Chinese charge on snooker to the peak of men’s tennis over the past few decades, saying the top players are “pushing each other on like Federer, Djokovic and Nadal”. The six-time world champion was beaten 10-9 by Fan Zhengyi in the final of the European Masters and he has heaped praise on his opponent — before warning the UK will fall behind China if it does not focus on the grassroots game. Ad/> O’Sullivan is moving with the rest of the tour from Milton Keynes to the Welsh Open, where he’ll open his campaign against James Cahill, live on Eurosport on Tuesday.
John Higgins turns 47 in May, an age at which great players would once be furiously treading water, trying to stem an inevitable decline. Higgins, though, believes he is playing better than ever. This season he has appeared in five finals.
Nigel Bond will face Ronnie O'Sullivan for the first time since 1998 at the European Masters in Milton Keynes on Monday in what could be his final season on the World Snooker Tour circuit. 1996 British Open champion Bond met the six-time Crucible winner six times between 1994 and 1998, but has remarkably gone 24 years without locking swords with the snooker GOAT at a tournament.
Hossein Vafaei gave us further proof this week of just how ridiculously skilled professional snooker players are.
Nutcharut Wongharuthai survived an extraordinary final against Wendy Jans to win her first World Women's Snooker Championship crown. The Thai player knocked home the final black to seal a gripping, marathon victory, producing a stunning fight-back from 5-3 down to take the match in Sheffield in the deciding frame.
Stephen Hendry has described Neil Robertson as the best player on planet snooker, but believes he needs to prove it by becoming a multiple world champion. The seven-time Crucible winner Hendry watched on in awe as Robertson claimed his third major trophy of the season following triumphs at the English Open and Masters by filleting an unfortunate Barry Hawkins 10-5 in a Players Championship final brimming with astonishing quality in Wolverhampton. Ad/> Why Neil Robertson’s class extends beyond the snooker table All-time top 10: What are Neil Robertson’s greatest moments? ‘Not too late’ – Can Robertson solve the great Crucible mystery? Players ChampionshipRobertson triumphs over Hawkins in Players Championship final15 HOURS AGO World No.
Stephen Hendry said Ronnie O’Sullivan «didn’t turn up» after he was beaten 6-3 in the quarter-finals of the Players Championship by Neil Robertson. O’Sullivan was unable to reproduce the impressive performance that saw him past Judd Trump in the previous round. Ad/> The Rocket missed several balls as he fell 4-1 behind against Robertson, who looked in good touch from the start.