Ronnie O'Sullivan

RONNIE O' SULLIVAN broke down in tears after winning the World Snooker Championship for the recor...

When asked if his the moment with Trump was the nicest moment at the Crucible ever, O'Sullivan said: "Without a doubt. "It's great for snooker that we've got someone like Judd, playing the way he plays. I didn't realise how he sees me and how I've kind of helped or been part of his development. It just blew me away and I love Judd. I didn't realise what he thought of me until then. I don't know what to say.

O'Sullivan has now matched Stephen Hendry's record of seven world crowns but feels his game is still lacking.

I enjoy being on the circuit, I enjoy being on the road. I want to be known as someone who loves snooker and loves playing.” “I’m prepared to do that. “I don’t consider myself the greatest ever at all,” said O’Sullivan, who held off a valiant fightback by Trump having started the day with a seven-frame advantage. “All the other tournaments, why not? I don’t want to be considered the greatest.

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So she’s graced me with a little window of her time. However, it appears the pair do not stay in contact. I’ll take her out for a pizza then drop her off so she can do more revision.’ A lot about his professional career is well known, but what about his family life? Peace and love to you all. Ronnie revealed as much in a 2019 chat with The Mirror, while Taylor-Ann slammed him in a 2020 interview with The Sun.

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A bit like Roger Federer in tennis, it is all at once both soothing and reassuring on the senses. The speed of thought and technique establishes O’Sullivan on a snooker plain as a spiritual experience with 1,169 century breaks and counting compiled. Boxing and figure skating are two sports that are settled on the views of judges for performance. A place for everything and everything in its place, so to speak. There is so much good stuff going on, if I lose it is a little dent whereas before it would be a write-off. Yet with O’Sullivan, a touch of farce is also never far away. Respectfully, the no-crowd is a massive leveller in my honest opinion." His trademark no-nonsense demeanour, stylish swagger and fearless shot making quickly dismissed any sense of a wobble. “Davis and Hendry did almost all of their stuff in a 10-year stint and that's it. To say O’Sullivan has made up for lost time in snooker would be an understatement. But Ronnie's shown up all the time, and he's dug as deep as anyone at this tournament. Accepted wisdom suggests he should no longer be burning blokes like Trump, but then again Father Time is also a huge fan of O’Sullivan doing his thing with a snooker cue.

O'Sullivan drew level with Stephen Hendry on seven world titles after an 18-13 victory over Trump.

I love Judd. I love him, he’s a great lad, and I didn’t realise what he thought of me until then. “I gave [Judd Trump] a big hug and I was just sobbing in his arms. “I was so emotional.

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Ronnie O'Sullivan won a record-equalling seventh World Snooker Championship title on Monday as he defeated Judd Trump 18-13 at the Crucible Theatre.

It's an amazing achievement and he's the best player of all time - he keeps getting better and better. The seven-time world champion appears to be suggesting he will pursue an eighth in 2023, while his praise towards Trump was certainly warranted after his opponent battled back a 12-5 deficit make it 14-11. 2Goats together’. O’Sullivan shared the message to his story and thanked Fury for his support. “I like to win, but it's not the be-all and end-all. On Monday afternoon, Trump won six of eight frames to make the score 14-11 before O’Sullivan sealed his famous win and the £500,000 prize as he took four of the evening’s first six frames. O'Sullivan's famous win will undoubtedly add more fuel to the debate regarding the greatest snooker player of all time.

The 46-year-old eclipsed his former coach Ray Reardon as the oldest World Championship winner when he beat Judd Trump 18-13 in Monday's final.

‘It was a bit of a challenge but I was up for it. I want to be known as someone who loves snooker and loves playing. It’s not one I want to win. ‘With snooker there’s a shelf life and I have to accept that. ‘I could probably play to my mid-50s if I wanted to. If I’m enjoying it and having fun with it then I’ll play as long as I want to play.

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But the overriding story was his sublime play, which has now taken him to a total of 21 Triple Crown titles. Following his semi-final win over John Higgins, he joked he would be taking a hairdryer into the arena for the final after sitting on a wet sea t. He is the most talented player we've seen in the sport and this is just rewards for his talent. In his first-round match over David Gilbert, he was reprimanded for making a lewd gesture after missing a simple pot. "I think he's the most talented sportsman in Britain. This is Tiger Woods level. "Don't listen to him saying he doesn't practice," Parrott said, following his triumph.

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‘He was a big driving force behind me, he kept me on the straight and narrow. Absolutely 100% it would have been different. Speaking to Eurosport, Ronnie Jr said it was ‘just lovely’ to have his dad and children by his side – particularly as his father was ‘in a cell on his own’ during his first world title win.

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He’s a very emotional man and they can get the better of him but he’s learned to recognise the trigger points, which is why he’s presenting as a different person at the snooker table. There’s probably enough content to do a five-hour show.” But while the Netflix documentary about snooker’s grand master of the baize will culminate with his latest triumph, you get the sneaking suspicion that O’Sullivan’s own story is still some way from completion. By his own admission, O’Sullivan was ready to walk away from snooker a decade ago before uniting with Peters. Since then, he has broken nearly every record there is to break on the baize, including the most career centuries, most ranking titles and a further four world crowns in little more than 10 years. How fitting too that the latest success for snooker’s serial winner was followed every step of the way by a camera crew who will produce an upcoming Netflix documentary about O’Sullivan’s life and career. “I could probably play to my mid-50s if I wanted to,” he said. O’Sullivan equalled Stephen Hendry’s modern-era record of seven Crucible titles by defeating Judd Trump on Monday, further erasing any doubt to the debate that he is snooker’s greatest player.

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“I personally felt the situation was handled very well by Olivier, and I think Ronnie knows deep down that Olivier is one of the best referees in the world.” “Olivier Marteel spotted something that he felt he needed to warn Ronnie for, and he proceeded to warn Ronnie during the match, in the arena, which is the right thing to do,” Ferguson said. “But the key thing for me is to see these younger players competing against the great players, and that’s what’s going to help them going forward.”

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A perfect representation of the game O'Sullivan plays. 'If he saw weakness, he just went for the jugular,' O'Sullivan recalled. Snooker feels different when O'Sullivan is at the table, the way cricket does with Ben Stokes at the crease, or football with Paul Gascoigne on the ball. There is none of the angst he can bring to the baize, yet none of the brilliance, too. O'Sullivan thinks there is no comparison between him and these icons, probably on the days when he sees only snooker's gloom and isolation. For that day, O'Sullivan gave the impression he wouldn't be around for long, even if he somehow resisted the ravages of age and stayed 20/20. 'I can't be the ambassador of smiles,' he said. Neither won the big one past the age of 32. Steve Davis won six titles, all in the 1980s; Stephen Henry seven, all in the 1990s. He breaks left-handed, continues right-handed, he can play alternate shots, he can bring that out just to escape from a fix. Loving the competition, working extraordinarily hard to be the best at it, but sometimes hating its interior nature, the absence of sunlight, all darkness, shadows and silence when he could be out running. Everyone thinks they can pot, the way they think they can throw a dart. But he's the oldest world champion in history.

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If it happens for a third time, O’Sullivan will forfeit the match. Marteel was clearly frustrated with the 46-year-old after O’Sullivan returned to his seat following a snooker in the eighth frame. He needs to deal with it, not me.”

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Three years later, he turned professional and won 74 of his first 76 qualifying matches. His mother was then sentenced to a year in 1996 for tax evasion and their son was left to care for his eight-year-old sister Danielle. His father, Ronnie O’Sullivan Snr, was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for murder and was released after serving 18 years. His first world final came in 2001 and he defeated John Higgins 18-14 to claim first world title and reach number two in the world rankings. But reports now suggest that the pair are back together. He made his first competitive century break at the age of 10 and went on to win the British Under-16 Championship at the age of 13.

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There is no one dominating the sport like he did, like Tiger Woods did.” It says something of the class of both men that Hendry was just as effusive about O’Sullivan. “No one does it better,” he said. And Hendry did all this despite never being a darling of the masses, like the Rocket or Whirlwind. We hear a lot of talk about the benefits of home advantage in sport but Hendry usually had the crowd against him – and worse. But the Scot was able to surpass it in 1994, beating White 18-17 in the final despite fracturing an elbow while going to the bathroom in the middle of the night earlier in the tournament. Back then Hendry could pot with the best of them and he was also blessed with a natural immunity to pressure. Perhaps the crucial moment came at 14-9 down as Hendry, with the cue ball in the jaws of the middle pocket, rolled in a brilliant brown. It is not just that Maradona pogos up and down with the ball seemingly glued to his head.

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Trump surveyed the table and with three snookers required, decided to fold it. Trump efficiently cleared the table to produce a break of 59. He capitalised on a mistake from an O'Sullivan safety shot to open with 107.

O'Sullivan won 18-13 after dominating the evening session, earning a seventh world title to equal Stephen Hendry's record.

No player goes through a world championship triumph without one session to forget and in the heat of the moment on Monday afternoon when Trump threatened to push O’Sullivan all the way, it was easy to forget that was the first time The Rocket had wavered all tournament long. Trump needed a strong start in the evening but he did not get it. “He will go down to the best player of all-time,” he said. However, he won six of the eight frames available in the afternoon to reduce O’Sullivan’s cushion to three frames. At times O’Sullivan is so laid back about the magnitude of his achievements in the game that he is practically horizontal. But despite Judd Trump making everyone wonder if the impossible could really happen at one stage on Monday afternoon, the world championship ended in yet more history for Ronnie O’Sullivan: and this bit really means something.

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He is also the youngest ever winner, having been only 21 when he claimed his first title in 1990. O’Sullivan already holds the record for most maximum breaks in professional tournament snooker with 15 and he has also completed the feat in the shortest time – with his maiden 147 at the 1997 World Championship taking just five minutes and 20 seconds. In the unlikely event that Ronnie O’Sullivan can make another maximum in the last day of the tournament he will break the record, win an additional £40,000 and share the £15,000 highest break price with Neil Robertson – who has already had a 147 break this year.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has equalled Stephen Hendry's record of seven World Snooker Championship titles after defeating Judd Trump 18-13.

you can see it out there, he barely misses a ball over the 31 frames. "He keeps getting better and better. "I think he was the best player throughout the whole tournament by quite far and I was just happy to make a match out of it this afternoon!" Trump would win two of the next three, and ensured another bit of history by delivering a record-breaking 109th century of the tournament - fittingly, with a clearance of 109 - to close the gap to 17-13 before O'Sullivan got over the line. A nerve-jangling clearance from Trump, in response to O'Sullivan leaving a black dangling over the top pocket, made it 13-10, and the pair shared the last two frames of an engrossing afternoon to leave Trump with a glimmer of hope having cut the overnight lead by more than half. The incident marred recognition of a ruthless first day performance by O'Sullivan, who punished a series of misses by Trump to win a streak of seven frames out of nine, and raised the prospect of becoming only the fourth player to beat his final opponent with a session to spare.

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And it came in style - a 107 break, his first century of the final. The pair have been the dominant players at the Crucible in the last four years. Energised and newly confident, Trump won the session 6-2. But his decision to attempt a double on a red when safety was the better option cost him dear. Hawkish and harrying, referee Olivier Marteel could not replace the balls fast enough for his snooker brain and body. This triumph adds to world titles won in in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2020.

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I couldn't deprive my dad of that." "I have a lot of trophies and I thought 'I am only going to put it in my suitcase, take it home and put it on the mantelpiece'," he told AFP. "I was getting so bored I had to do something, and needed a goal to get out of bed in the morning," he explained. Running eventually proved to be the cure. "I suppose it was a lot to deal with but at the time I didn't think anything of it," O'Sullivan said in 2016. "I was depressed because I'd stopped drinking and taking drugs, but I only drank and took drugs in the first place because I was depressed," he said in his 2013 autobiography "Running".

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After the game, Trump paid a "massive congratulations" to his competitor and said it had "been a pleasure to share the table with him". O'Sullivan went on to take the first two frames in the evening with breaks of 82 and 88, each time building on errors made by the 33-year-old. Trump won the first three frames of the day, taking the score to 13-9.

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He hasn't put Ronnie under any sort of pressure. "Trump is below-par, we have to say that. His cue-ball control is there.

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Hendry was in the commentary box at the Crucible and said it was a privilege to share the record with O’Sullivan. “It’s been a pleasure to share a table with him,” said Trump, who grew up idolizing O’Sullivan. “It’s an amazing achievement and he’s the best player of all time.” O’Sullivan also has won a record seven titles at each of the Masters and the U.K. Championship, the other two so-called “majors” in snooker.

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Not for long though, with O'Sullivan handed another chance to get amongst the balls in the next frame, and he racked up a break of 75 to leave himself on the brink. That left him just two frames from glory, and he threatened to break free again with a break of 27 only for a rare miscalculation to halt the break. He finished the contest in style, executing a break of 85 to rapturous applause from the sell-out crowd.

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But, and a crumb of comfort for Trump, is that the one he did lose, in 2014 to Mark Selby, came after he had led overnight. But Selby proved it could be done as he fought back to win 11 frames on the final day that year, limiting O'Sullivan to just four. As said Trump must win at least three of this afternoon's frames to prevent the match ending a session early. Trump takes full advantage of O'Sullivan's missed red and a break of 59 gives him the frame. Trump will be thrilled to have taken three frames but may regret being too aggressive when in the ascendancy in Frame 21 with that attempt at a plant when he had the scoreboard advantage. O'Sullivan gets in first but misses a black off its spot to gift Trump a chance and he makes 45. He wins the ensuing safety exchange and goes on to secure his fourth frame of the afternoon and get the gap back down to four frames again. It is Trump's turn to have his potting let him down as he firstly misses a black and then a long red that leaves the table wide open for his opponent. It sends balls flying and a red rolls into the left middle pocket to shock even Trump. He capitalises and a break of 105 seals the frame and he will be only three behind when play resumes at 7pm BST. He misses an awkward brown and then a red into the middle pocket to give O'Sullivan the early chance. He could be proven right as O'Sullivan played better snooker in the opening 12 minutes of that frame then in the entire afternoon combined. But he gets a second chance after O'Sullivan misses a red completely in a safety duel and gifts a free ball.

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That is the line." "That is the line. "Trump is below-par, we have to say that. But he was imperious. He hasn't put Ronnie under any sort of pressure. His cue-ball control is there.

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Hendry was in the commentary box at the Crucible and said it was a privilege to share the record with O’Sullivan. “It’s been a pleasure to share a table with him,” said Trump, who grew up idolizing O’Sullivan. “It’s an amazing achievement and he’s the best player of all time.” O’Sullivan also has won a record seven titles at each of the Masters and the U.K. Championship, the other two so-called “majors” in snooker.

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However, in the following frame, Trump left the door ajar for The Rocket and, in perhaps fitting fashion, he secured his seventh world crown with a exhilarating break of 85 to ensure he reigns supreme in the game once again, winning the biggest prize in the sport in a third different decade in the process. But O’Sullivan returned for the evening session in the form which has seen him saunter through to yet another final in Sheffield, and despite yet more valiant play from Trump, O’Sullivan ultimately ensured he would draw level with Hendry on seven world titles, the most of any player in the Crucible era, and all but remove any remaining doubt about his status as the greatest player ever to pick up a snooker cue. Ronnie O’Sullivan is snooker’s world champion for a seventh time, as the greatest player in the sport’s history moved level with Stephen Hendry on the most Crucible titles won in the modern era after defeating Judd Trump 18-13 in a thrilling final in Sheffield.

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Ronnie O'Sullivan secured a record-equalling Crucible crown as he stamped out Judd Trump's resistance to win the World Championship for a seventh time.

But his challenge would end there as O’Sullivan delivered a trademark knock of 85 in the 31st frame to seal a five-frame victory, a seventh trophy and a £500,000 winner’s cheque. He produced another majestic long red at the start of the 30th frame before a series of smart pots bailed him out after he ran out of position. O’Sullivan broke down on 16 attempting a double of his own, but was soon allowed back to the table and another half-century, this time a 75, saw him move within a frame of the trophy. Trump returned from the interval in the knowledge he would have to win six frames without reply to win a second title. The 2019 champion was first on the scoreboard with a magnificent cross-double into the middle pocket, but his follow-up on the brown found the jaws as Trump continued to be allergic to potting anything that was not red. Those with tickets for the fourth session were likely wondering if they would get any snooker, with Trump needing to win three frames on Monday afternoon simply to force a finale.

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