On December 17, Beijing time, the snooker Grand Prix Round of 16, Roño Sullivan avoided the recurrence of the German Masters being swept out, defeating Iran's famous Wafi 4-1 to successfully advance to the top 8. After the game, O'Sullivan confessed: I will stick to it for another three years and hope that Crucible will win the world championship again!
The Grand Prix is an important ranking tournament and only the top 32 players in a single season are allowed to participate. In this Grand Prix, Roño Sullivan's way to promotion was always bumpy, the competitive state was not good enough, and in the first round against Andy Hicks, he only shot a 50 plus. Last night, when facing Wafi, the feel was still not good.
The first three sets were played very hard, and Rogno Sullivan also made mistakes, and after losing the first set, he also bits and pieces to beat Wafi 61-13, 59-15. In this season's German Masters qualifiers, O'Sullivan was swept 0-4 by Wafi and did not stop qualifying.
At the beginning of the fourth set, O'Sullivan found some feel, single shot 107 points to break the hundred to win, in the fifth set O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to single shot 81 points to lock the victory to 4-1 to advance to the quarterfinals! After the game, O'Sullivan confessed in an interview: "I feel embarrassed and sad for the audience because they came to watch the game, and my performance was so bad, I apologize to them. ”
"I'm not as good as I used to be, it's all about my results, and in the last two years, a lot of the competitions have stopped in the semi-finals or even the finals, and there's a reason for that. I accept that, I'm really not as good as I used to be. In the Grand Prix, I performed very badly, but in the end I won. ”
O'Sullivan continued: "Now I understand what Steve Davis once said, when you're ranked above your age, it's time to consider hanging up the club and retiring. I'll be on for three years and I'm still looking forward to winning the world championship at Crucible. ”
Six World Championship champions Roño Sullivan, with one more world title, will tie the record of Steven Hendry. Unfortunately, since reaching the summit of Crucible in 2020, there have been five defeats in the ranking finals and not a single final this season.
According to the schedule of the Grand Prix, O'Sullivan will play against Jimmy Robertson, who eliminated Brechel, in the quarterfinals, and it remains to be seen whether O'Sullivan will still feel as bad as in the previous two rounds.