'He could never look boring if he tried' - Ronnie O'Sullivan urges Jack Lisowski to play smart snooker

Ronnie O’Sullivan has said the titles will flow for Jack Lisowski if he finds a balance in his game. Lisowski is one of the most talented players in snooker, but is still to win a title and has often fallen short on the back of poor decision making. Ad/> He showed steel and silk to beat Ali Carter in the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open, and O’Sullivan was impressed with how he fought back from 4-2 down to win 5-4.

Welsh OpenLisowski fights back to beat Carter and book place in the semi-finals3 HOURS AGO O’Sullivan feels Lisowski needs to rein in his talent, keep control of the situation and make the right choices. “If he can play a bit like that more often he will definitely win tournaments,” O’Sullivan said in his role as a pundit for Eurosport. “All it needs is to control that talent.

“It can run away with you, you can get so confident and going too fast and thinking too far ahead — instead of becoming more clinical: one ball at a time, one ball at a time. “The flair will then come, the victories will come and the tournaments will come. “Sometimes you have to play that style of snooker to win.” Winners win, losers lose — O'Sullivan questions mindset of players I am not playing well enough — Trump admits to struggles with form O’Sullivan does not want to see Lisowski deviate from his natural game, but feels he needs to make better decisions.

“He could never look boring if he tried,” O’Sullivan said. “You have two ends of the spectrum, the really slow and boring and really exciting. The slow and boring one has to speed up and the really fast one needs to rein it in a little bit.