The 2024-2025 season of the snooker professional league still has a period of time to play, at present, Ding Junhui and O'Sullivan are preparing for exhibition matches in Chinese mainland, May 2024 is not honest for O'Sullivan, on May 16, 2024 Beijing time, the famous snooker player Dean O'Kane died at the age of 61! Snooker officials are also the first to announce such unfortunate news!
61 years old for many Chinese men, just retired, such an age can be said to be a pity, Dean O'Kane is now many snooker fans are not familiar with him, after all, he has been away from the snooker professional league for many years, but he also left some legends in the World Championships, this player is a New Zealander, and he is also half a fellow of Australian player Neil Robertson, both of whom are Australians, in addition, Neil Robertson is personally condolence, and he also expresses great sympathy for his family, Neil Robertson and Dean have a deep friendship, As a player who is also Oceania, the two of them often learn from each other, who has a good relationship underground, Neil Robertson even said that in his career, Dean has helped him a lot! Now that he is setting off again, Neil Robertson is extremely sad about Dean's death, and the two are still in contact not long after, but the incident happened suddenly. It's unexpected!
Dean's death also made the active player Burton full of emotion, such a good person was taken away from his life, it was really surprising, just recently, Dean fell suddenly at home, his head hit the ground, and finally fell to an important part, after the rescue regretted leaving, Neil Robertson also cried bitterly, he also wanted to see his friend for the last time, Dean was once ranked 18th in the world, which is also very good, it can be said that he is the greatest player in the history of New Zealand snooker, Nowadays, no New Zealand professional players come to the professional snooker league. In addition, Dean has twice come to the quarterfinals of the World Championships, in the two quarterfinals, once to Jimmy White, who was in full swing at the time, and once to Hendry, who was at his peak, in addition to facing Samben at the World Championships, once 1-5 behind, and finally completed a big reversal, winning nine games in a row in the game, which is also a big case of reversal! The World Championships in Crucible have also written legends! It's a pity to be in the same era as big guys like Steve Davis, Hendry and Jimmy White, it's a bit sad!
In addition, Dean also reached the final of the Hong Kong Open, won the runner-up, retired in 2001 as a professional snooker commentator, and entered the real estate industry to make money! I hope that the professional players of snooker can live a long and healthy life and give the fans a better performance!