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    12-5 O'Sullivan going into tomorrow.

    Trump will be doing well to force this into a fourth session tomorrow night.


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    I get annoyed at that guy continually announcing O' Sullivan as the greatest player in history. He's not even won the most world titles in the modern era. Stephen Hendry should be offended (as should the ghosts of Joe Davis, Fred Davis, John Pullman...) and He's only on the same number of world titles as Ray Reardon and Steve Davis. Maybe the announcers a Hibby. 🤔
    World title wins alone don’t define the greatest player, he’s up there in my opinion.

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    Trump looking like a different player today.


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    12-8 now as Trump wins first three frames

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    12-8 now as Trump wins first three frames
    Blowing O'Sullivan out of the water. Where was this yesterday?


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    Blowing O'Sullivan out of the water. Where was this yesterday?
    Bad miss from OSullivan there too.

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    Gutted I'm missing this with being at work!

    On the plus side I'll hopefully see a good end tonight as I didn't think there would be a fourth session!

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    What at a response from OSullivan in this frame. 13-8

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    Judd Trump absolutely dominating here. Think O'Sullivan will welcome a break.


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    I can't wait to watch this tonight!

    Wait and see it will end up 18-11 to O'Sullivan now! 😂

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    Didn't expect to see that when I came in for an update!

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    Not fussy who wins but would be good to see Trump take the 1st couple of frames tonight to make it really interesting.
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  14. #103
    15-11 O'Sullivan.

    I feel Trump had to win that one to be honest.

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    Judd will rue his two pots in frame 29 after such a brilliant double.

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    17-13.

    The match is over but hopefully Trump can win at least a couple more.

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    O'Sullivan wins 18-13 for his record equalling seventh world title.

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    Well deserved really. Trump at least made a game of it this afternoon.

    Was hoping for a 1am epic but an early night is welcome.
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    Ronnie really is the best ever.

    Says records don't matter but think the tears told a different story there.
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    Ronnie really is the best ever.

    Says records don't matter but think the tears told a different story there.
    Yeah it was obvious what it meant to him. I think he has to say it to himself, enjoy it to keep the demons away. People were saying he was the best ever years ago but the reply was, how can he be if Hendry has more. For me he is and he isn't finished yet

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    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/0...nie-osullivan/

    The genius of Ronnie O’Sullivan
    The game of snooker will never be the same again

    It was never really in doubt. Still, it’s nice to make it official. To most snooker fans, it has long been obvious that Ronald Antonio O’Sullivan is the greatest player of all time, but so long as Stephen Hendry had seven World Championships to Ronnie’s six, there would always have been an element of plausible deniability.

    On every other measure, O’Sullivan had the better of the Scotsman. Thirty-nine ranking titles to Hendry’s 36. Seven Masters titles to his six. Seven UK Championships to his five. When they played head-to-head, O’Sullivan had 30 victories to Hendry’s 21. Hendry was the King of the Crucible. After O’Sullivan’s 18-13 victory over Judd Trump last night, that is an honour he must now share. As for the question of who is the GOAT, there can be no more argument.

    Seven World Championships. Seven Masters. Seven UK Championships. Thirty-nine ranking titles. O’Sullivan has made more maximum breaks than anyone else (15). He made the fastest maximum break ever (five minutes and eight seconds, a record that will almost certainly never be beaten). He is the only player to have made a thousand career centuries (1,170 and counting). At the age of 17, he became the youngest player to win a ranking event and he is now the oldest person to have won the World Championship. In 2012, Hendry retired from snooker aged 43 having won nothing for seven years. O’Sullivan, aged 46, is the world No1 and has won the World Championship twice in the past three years.

    Pedants might point out that Joe Davis won the world title 15 times in a row between 1927 and 1946, but the World’s Professional Snooker Championship, as it was known from 1935, was a rinky-dink affair by modern standards, involving as few as two players battling it out while taking a break from the supposedly more serious game of billiards. Fred Davis – Joe’s brother – won a somewhat more coherent version of the competition on eight occasions after the war. John Pulman won something that was technically the world title eight times between 1957 and 1968, but the game was in the doldrums by then and these matches were little more than exhibitions, with a lone challenger allowed to take on Pulman. Three of his titles were won in a single year (1965).

    You can only beat the people you’re drawn against and it is to take nothing away from these great players to note that the quality and quantity of their opposition was of a different order to that which has faced O’Sullivan since he won the UK Championship at a canter in 1993. Joe Davis made the first official 147 break in 1955 in an exhibition match and it was 10 years before anyone made another. Fred Davis and John Pulman never made a maximum in competitive play. In the 2021/22 season, by contrast, 10 players made a break of 147. O’Sullivan has made 15 in his career, including three at the Crucible.

    To a casual observer, it might seem that winning seven World Championships in a 30-year career is a relatively modest accomplishment for the greatest player of all time, but the tournament is an extremely difficult one to win. Played over 17 days, it is the ultimate test not only of technical ability, but also of stamina, drive and concentration. O’Sullivan could have smashed Hendry’s record years ago had it not been for what commentators euphemistically call ‘problems off the table’. His father was jailed for life in the year he turned professional. At one point in the 1990s, both of his parents were in prison. Staying up all night with Jimmy White, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood is not the best preparation for the modern professional. By O’Sullivan’s own reckoning, he lost nine years of his career to partying.

    When Ronnie O’Sullivan’s head is in the right place, there is no stopping him. His greatest psychological obstacle has always been what he calls ‘snooker depression’. Distinct from normal depression, snooker depression arises from the obsessive quest for perfection and is exacerbated by endless days in distant hotel rooms. Snooker, like chess, can send players crazy. Strictly speaking, there is no luck in the game. It is all physics. The pockets are always in the same place. The balls roll in a predictable way. In principle, everything can be controlled. In practice, however, the human brain – even one as fine as O’Sullivan’s – cannot predict or control the movement of every spinning ivory sphere. In the gap between what is possible and what is realistic lies turmoil.

    Presenters are often left open-mouthed in post-match interviews when Ronnie berates his own game after thrashing an opponent with some of the best snooker anybody has ever seen. His standard response to a tournament victory is to say that he played terribly and can’t believe he won. A cynic might say that this is a ploy to demoralise the opposition. I think it is genuine. Every minute spent sat in his chair is a reminder that he could have played the last shot better. Yes, he got four centuries, but he could have got 10. To the viewing public, it looked like another supreme performance from a genius, but it could never live up to the game O’Sullivan sees in his head.

    Even the greatest players lose more tournaments than they win. Rather than be tormented by this, O’Sullivan’s approach in recent years has been to embrace it. He portrays himself as an amateur playing for fun in the autumn of his career. He says he would rather be in the commentary box with Jimmy and the boys or out running. He has essentially retired from overseas tournaments. A few years ago, he conducted every post-match interview with an Australian accent just for the hell of it.

    You don’t need to be a psychologist to see that downplaying your own talents is a way of taking the pressure off, but it is not wholly an act. After winning the World Championship in 2012, O’Sullivan dropped off the tour, stopped playing snooker and went to work on a pig farm before returning to the Crucible in 2013 to win the tournament again. Up to a point, he really can take or leave it.

    But only up to a point. Taking the game less seriously seems to have made O’Sullivan happier. It has certainly extended his career. But you don’t beat the likes of Judd Trump with levity. Stephen Hendry dominated the 1990s just as Steve Davis dominated the 1980s, but neither man was able to keep up with the next generation of snooker players. Alex Higgins’ extraordinary natural ability wasn’t enough for him to win more than two World Championships. At the age of 46, Ronnie O’Sullivan is still the man to beat because he has worked at it, mentally and physically. He has improved and adapted his game through countless hours of practice. He does it because he loves snooker and he wants to win. Whatever he might say in public, the seventh world title was the itch that needed scratching. When he hugged Judd Trump for a full minute after winning last night, you could see what it meant to him.

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    Hendry said it himself last night. Soon as he equalled Steve on 6 he had to have 7.

    Ronnie will want 8. If he got it I'd expect him to retire then.

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    Amazing break from Ronnie. But the thing is 9000 smart snooker fans turning up for each session. It's surely inevitable that snooker moves more and more east.

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    This 114 total clearance from Ronnie O'Sullivan to win the Hong Kong Masters is absolutely genius.

    It featured 12 blues and 0 blacks until he brilliantly brings it into position at the very end. The 9000-strong crowd loved it almost like a 147

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    Amazing break from Ronnie. But the thing is 9000 smart snooker fans turning up for each session. It's surely inevitable that snooker moves more and more east.

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    This 114 total clearance from Ronnie O'Sullivan to win the Hong Kong Masters is absolutely genius.

    It featured 12 blues and 0 blacks until he brilliantly brings it into position at the very end. The 9000-strong crowd loved it almost like a 147
    Some of these shots were absolute genius.

    What an incredible talent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7 View Post
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    Amazing break from Ronnie. But the thing is 9000 smart snooker fans turning up for each session. It's surely inevitable that snooker moves more and more east.

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    This 114 total clearance from Ronnie O'Sullivan to win the Hong Kong Masters is absolutely genius.

    It featured 12 blues and 0 blacks until he brilliantly brings it into position at the very end. The 9000-strong crowd loved it almost like a 147
    A good break, but getting top side of the blue every second shot is a big target. Not sure the break would have got the same adulation if it had been a lesser player.

    As an aside I watched a couple of frames from a mixed doubles tournament the other week. Think it was Trump v Selby plus partners and a bit of Ronnie’s match. It didn’t work. There was such a gulf between the very top of the mens elite like Trump & Selby and their female partners. It was like watching different games happening in the same frame. If they want to go down that route they should make it more like the snooker shootout, which is more like the darts. Shot clocks, audience shouting out and singing etc rather than a normal snooker match with drastically different levels every second shot.

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    Shaun Murphy must have lost a good few pounds. He’s looking very well.
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    Shaun Murphy must have lost a good few pounds. He’s looking very well.
    Mark Allen as well, lost nearly 5 stone in the last few months and now playing well in a major final. Think Ding will win it though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiber-nation View Post
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    Mark Allen as well, lost nearly 5 stone in the last few months and now playing well in a major final. Think Ding will win it though.
    Wow Mark Allen looks in amazing shape ! He's lost so much weight

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