Ronnie O’Sullivan took to social media for the primary time since dropping out of the Masters.
Ronnie O’Sullivan backed out of this 12 months’s Masters (Picture: Getty)
Ronnie O’Sullivan has spoken out after skipping the primary large event of 2026, the Masters. O’Sullivan, who was anticipated to compete on the showpiece occasion in north London, gave up his spot on the eleventh hour with what was the most recent in an extended line of late withdrawals.
It comes amid ongoing hypothesis surrounding O’Sullivan’s future as an expert snooker participant, with speak about a possible retirement having been talked about for a while now. Nevertheless, reasonably bizarrely, O’Sullivan’s first social media put up after his Masters snub, was a put up a couple of Chinese language material producer.
Throughout the closing between John Higgins and Kyren Wilson, O’Sullivan instructed his 557,000 followers on X: “Liberwin introduced as official world material accomplice of the Pluto Television Snooker 900 Channel. Chinese language nationwide model Liberwin have been introduced as the worldwide material accomplice of the brand new Pluto TV Snooker 900 Channel which may also see the venue of play named as “The Liberwin Enviornment” The settlement was agreed throughout a particular assembly in China between Snooker 900 Ambassador, and seven x World Snooker Champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Sunxiaoping, President of Jiangsu Liberwin Textile Group (see image).”
The put up, which was accompanied by a photograph of O’Sullivan and Sunxiaoping, additionally included quotes from the Rocket concerning the firm. They learn: “Having personally visited the Liberwin manufacturing facility in China, and labored with them in an Ambassadorial Function, I believe their material is the proper match for 900 Snooker, which is a brand new quick and thrilling model of the sport. This partnership, and the worldwide attain of Pluto Television, will additional help their development and promotion”
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It stays to be seen how usually O’Sullivan, who’s the document holder for probably the most Masters titles gained, will compete in occasions this 12 months. However in accordance with fellow snooker icon Jimmy White, the current withdrawal got here as a shock. He instructed TNT Sports activities: “I do know he has been practising, and I heard he was in Eire taking part in with Aaron Hill and Jordan Brown, so his preparation was good for this occasion. All of us thought he was going to play within the occasion.”
Whereas on his probabilities of an eighth World Championship title, White added: “The extra this goes on with out match follow, going into making an attempt to beat Stephen Hendry’s document of successful eight world titles, which is developing in three months’ time, it isn’t a number of match follow for sharpness. It will simply be good to see him play, he’s fantastic to look at.”
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