On February 6, 2022, the snooker Turkish Masters is about to end the qualification competition, the performance of Chinese players Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao tonight, by many fans, but O'Sullivan's absence, or many people regret, as early as O'Sullivan responded to this, hoping that the World Taiwan Federation or the organizers will pay themselves an additional appearance fee, they will participate.
The Turkish Masters is a brand new ranking event, this is the first time that a snooker professional event has been held in Turkey, the location is in Antalya, the World Taiwan Federation is also taking into account the problem of going out to participate in the cost, specially arranged for everyone to carry out a round of 9 rounds and 5 wins in advance of the qualifiers, the players who are out do not have to travel long distances, and the prize money of the promoted players is enough to spend, so that this approach has more support.
There are 25 Chinese players who have signed up to participate, the world's top sixteen players are only O'Sullivan absent, many local fans want to see O'Sullivan's game, he has a super popularity in the world, the Turkish Masters champion prize money of 100,000 pounds, the total prize money is also quite a lot, or has a certain attraction, but O'Sullivan has no interest in new events.
O'Sullivan wants to get extra money, otherwise he will stay at home, he is not willing to toss, does not like long-distance travel, unless there is a more generous remuneration, O'Sullivan hopes to reach an agreement with the organizers, let the other party pay more than five figures to pay the appearance fee, for this practice, the head of the World Taiwan Federation Jason. Ferguson spoke out for criticism, pointing out that such an approach was a wrong decision.
The hosts thought it was an unreasonable request, there was no budget for this, it was impossible to pay extra appearance fees for any player, O'Sullivan explained that he was not fully committed to snooker, would take more time to do other things, enjoy the fun of life, from his attitude it is not difficult to see that if there is not enough remuneration, traveling to Turkey to play is definitely not feasible.
O'Sullivan is a legendary player in the history of snooker, his career has won 38 ranking championships, creating a number of world records, last year's World Grand Prix O'Sullivan defeated Robertson to win the championship, and then O'Sullivan will participate in the Players' Championship, the first round against Trump, it is worth mentioning that O'Sullivan has a lot of personality, from this matter, it can be seen that he is really different from others.
Back to the incident itself, O'Sullivan took the initiative to ask for the appearance fee, causing many people to be dissatisfied, not only the World Taiwan Federation, some fans also questioned this, in his career, similar things often happen, all kinds of controversies have existed for a long time.