On April 18, Beijing time, at the Snooker World Championships, O'Sullivan defeated Gilbert 10-5 to advance to the second round. Interestingly, O'Sullivan spoke about China's new brother, Zhao Xintong, who he believes may be Snooker's greatest player of all time. Yes, you heard it right, O'Sullivan thinks that Snooker's GOAT will be Zhao Xintong! After Zhao Xintong passed the first round of the World Championships, he wrote down 4 words, "responding" to O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan believes that Zhao Xintong may be the greatest snooker player of all time, and he is helping Zhao Xintong do it all, imparting some skills to the young Chinese star. Zhao Xintong has won the British Championship and the German Masters this season, but Zhao Xintong is only 25 years old after all, and has not won more than 2 other competitions, for O'Sullivan, Zhao Xintong believes: "We are like friends, he taught me a lot, is a good man, the best player, a legend. ”
O'Sullivan said that he detailed some of the details of helping Zhao Xintong, and the Rockets also said: "I just want to watch his development, I hope all snooker fans can see the best Zhao Xintong, if I can help him, I will get great happiness from it." With Zhao Xintong's talent and ability, he may become GOAT, just like Federer holding a snooker club. However, he had to develop and learn, and he learned as quickly as I did and had proven his efforts. ”
It should be noted that Zhao Xintong has just won the first victory of his World Championship career, and in the face of O'Sullivan's crazy praise, almost the ultimate killing, Zhao Xintong wrote 4 words: "Continue to refuel." ”
All in all, time will tell if O'Sullivan's remarks are credible. However, if the god of snooker respects Zhao Xintong, I believe that what Zhao Xintong shows in training is the strength of the king, and all of them are played on the field!