'My worst nightmare come true' – Ronnie O'Sullivan reveals what he hated most about winning seventh world snooker title

Ronnie O'Sullivan has slammed the World Championship «circus» and revealed he hated being forced to attend the official after-party event in Sheffield. The game's greatest player completed an 18-14 win over Judd Trump in May to pick up a £500,000 winner's cheque in equalling Stephen Hendry's modern era record of seven Crucible crowns. Ad Despite his latest epic success, to go with his other rousing victories in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2020, O'Sullivan revealed he detests the demands that accompany the sport's most draining tournament.

European MastersO'Sullivan pulls out of European Masters due to medical reasons10/08/2022 AT 16:02 Particularly having to head across the street from the Crucible after the final for the traditional knees-up. «I just disengaged about seven or eight years ago with anything that didn’t make me feel comfortable in snooker,» said O'Sullivan, who astonishingly claimed the sport's world No. 1 spot two decades after first scaling the summit.

«There’s no amount of money in the world someone can offer me to do something I don’t want to do. »It was great. I knew I could have a longer career, more enjoyable, more happy, more fun.

Still compete, still be in the top eight in the world because it’s easy for me to be in the top eight, I’ve just got to be 50 per cent, really. «I go 100 per cent and I go back to No. 1, like I have done.

But I don’t want to be at 100 per cent, I don’t want to be that animal anymore, it’s exhausting, it’s tiring and I’ve done it. »Having won the world title and having got back to No. 1, it’s not a good place to be for me, personally.