Ronnie O’Sullivan offers advice to amateur star Daniel Wells as he says: ‘He’s just not good enough’

Ronnie O’Sullivan has advised amateur standout Daniel Wells to remain a ‘part-time player’ with a pretty brutal assessment, saying: ‘He’s never going to be a tournament winner, he’s just not good enough.’

Wells is a former professional who reached as high as number 52 in the world but dropped off tour in 2021 and has been competing as an amateur since.

The 34-year-old has played in a few professional competitions this season and has done well, including at the Welsh Open this week, where he beat Matt Selt to set up a clash with Judd Trump in the last 32.

The Welshman looks set to return to the professional tour next season thanks to his performances but O’Sullivan says he would be better off not inviting that pressure on himself.

The Rocket reckons Wells is playing good stuff as an amateur as he is not playing under the strain of snooker being a full-time job and he should continue with that approach.

‘I think for him he should just stay as a part-time player, irrelevant of how well he does, just stay part time snooker,’ O’Sullivan said on Eurosport. ‘It’s took the pressure off him.

‘Next year if he gets a main tour card and invests totally in snooker I bet he goes back to getting beaten and not enjoying it again.

‘So for him he’s better off as a part-time player. There’s a lot of players on tour who would play better if they were part-time because the pressure wouldn’t be on them.

‘Any time they get a chance to play they ‘d enjoy it. But once you start to change it and it becomes everything, they fall apart.

‘There’s a lot of them on tour who can’t mentally sustain it. If I was advising him I’d tell him to stay as a part-time player, you’re having fun and enjoying it. That’s the way he’s going to play his best snooker.’

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