The World Championship, Snooker's most important event of the year, is in full swing. As a big hit to win the championship, Snooker legend superstar O'Sullivan can be described as a busy person. While he was thinking about the game, he was also distracted from thinking about the new store business that had just opened. In addition to this, he also had to respond to the criticism of him outside the court. No, just recently, O'Sullivan responded strongly to criticism and questions from a snooker star.
Mention O'Sullivan, just the audience that pays attention and likes snooker is no one who doesn't know his daimyo. The star, who can be called a snooker legend, is now a veteran in his 40s. However, his current state has not declined much due to his age, on the contrary, the level is still very high, which can be seen from his world ranking. With such good form, coupled with his love for the sport of snooker, how could he possibly choose to retire? He has previously said that he hopes to remain in the top 8 in the world at the retirement age, which is 68 years old according to relevant reports. It can be seen that O'Sullivan did not have any intention of retiring.
But while O'Sullivan himself didn't want to retire, there were plenty of people looking forward to his retirement. No, there is a snooker star who has publicly criticized O'Sullivan in recent days, calling O'Sullivan a fool and hoping that he can retire. The snooker star is Wafi, who has just created the history of Iran's snooker, and he has passed the snooker World Championship qualifier all the way to become the first player in Iran to qualify for the World Championships.
After reaching the main stage of the World Championships, Wafi shot directly at O'Sullivan. He first said that O'Sullivan was disrespectful and a "numpties", and then urged O'Sullivan to retire quickly: "Honestly, I think he should retire." He should retire and then the younger generation of players will make the game bigger. I don't see any improvement, he's been at the top of the sport for 20 years and what has he done for us? Here's my biggest question: What did he do for us? ”
Wafi's reason for saying this is actually related to some of the things O'Sullivan said earlier. Previously, O'Sullivan had called the lower-ranked snookers "numpties", and even said that the biggest challenge when playing games was to face these "fools". It was seeing O'Sullivan's remarks that Waffy replied in an interview with the British media Metro: "Of course. A lot of the things he said frustrated me. If you call someone a numpties, what kind of legend are you? ”
However, O'Sullivan also gave a tough response to Waffy's questions and remarks about his retirement. "When I was young, I just wanted to go there [Crucible] and experience it once, but it was already a great thing to go there year after year," he said publicly. "That can turn a bad year into an absolutely wonderful one." In three weeks, someone will be on top of the world, so hopefully that person will be me. ”
It seems that O'Sullivan was very unhappy with Waffy's remarks that he had retired. Judging from his response, not only will he not retire, but on the contrary, he wants to reach the top again in Crucible and win the World Championship. If O'Sullivan wins the title again, he will chase the platform ball emperor Hendry to win the seventh World Championship.