In 2001, Ronnie O’Sullivan gained his first World Snooker Championship. Now, 1 / 4 of a century later, he’s aiming for a record-breaking eighth title.
The 50-year-old has lifted the trophy seven instances, a feat solely matched by Stephen Hendry within the Nineteen Nineties, with no-one within the fashionable period having extra success.
O’Sullivan already holds quite a few snooker information, together with being the oldest Crucible last winner following his most up-to-date success in 2022, aged 46.
However even after having reached his personal half-century, the participant dubbed the Rocket remains to be blasting to new heights.
Final month on the World Open in China he made a break of 153, the best ever recorded in skilled snooker, after benefiting from an early snooker that left him a free ball, which then acted like a sixteenth pink.
He reached the ultimate of that event, and Shaun Murphy, who misplaced 5-3 to O’Sullivan within the final 16, was impressed with how he carried out.
“After I performed him in Yushan he appeared fairly sharp and it was a really high-quality match,” stated 2005 world champion Murphy. “He has not been at his sensible finest this season, however when he will get in and in circulate he’s nonetheless pretty much as good as ever.
“It could be nice for snooker if he did get to eight and nice for him – it is a story everybody desires to put in writing and it will be an unimaginable achievement.
“However he’s working out of time so he must do it eventually, nevertheless it’s Ronnie O’Sullivan so that you would not put something previous him.”
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