{"id":1937,"date":"2024-01-19T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T08:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2024-01-27T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T03:01:19","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-questions-his-future-in-snooker-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/snooker\/ronnie-osullivan-questions-his-future-in-snooker-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan questions future after advancing to World Grand Prix Snooker quarter-finals with a win over Zhou Yuelong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>24hscore news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan, the current World No. 1, continued his impressive streak by narrowly defeating Zhou Yuelong 4-3 to advance to the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix in Leicester. Despite reaching his 141st ranking event quarter-final in his illustrious 32-year career with notable breaks of 67, 107, 50, and 90, O&#8217;Sullivan expressed dissatisfaction with his performance. He is set to face Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson in the next round, who secured his spot with a 4-2 victory over Tom Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While O&#8217;Sullivan has been having one of his best seasons, winning the Shanghai Masters, UK Championship, and Masters, he seemed rather downbeat despite his sixth consecutive win over the in-form Zhou. Despite Zhou&#8217;s impressive runs of 76, 102, and 65, along with a remarkable 95% pot success rate, O&#8217;Sullivan found faults in his own high-quality performance, even hinting at the possibility of retiring from the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AWESOME. ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/worldgrandprix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#worldgrandprix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpreadexSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@spreadexsport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ronnieo147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ronnieo147<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xyAplOgErf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xyAplOgErf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WST (@WeAreWST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreWST\/status\/1747996685433786517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t comprehend it,&#8221; remarked O&#8217;Sullivan on ITV. &#8220;I really have to contemplate whether I can continue feeling the way I do out there. I derive no enjoyment from the way I&#8217;m striking the ball. It feels like guesswork, and it&#8217;s a struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The irony is that I&#8217;m winning tournaments. If I were consistently losing in the early rounds, the decision would be easier. I&#8217;m just not finding any satisfaction in it, to be honest. I definitely need a break, at the very least. However, this has been my reality for 25 or 30 years. It&#8217;s the only thing I know, and it&#8217;s hard not to do this because it&#8217;s my job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve persevered through it, dealing with bad cueing. I&#8217;m getting no joy from it, truly. I&#8217;d prefer to play well and lose than play poorly and win tournaments.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O&#8217;Sullivan continued expressing his discontent, indicating that he would be happier losing matches so he could &#8220;go home,&#8221; but he emphasized that he would never intentionally lose matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I find it a real struggle. I feel like I&#8217;m going through the motions a lot of the time. I would have been genuinely happy to lose there so I could go home. But I can&#8217;t bring myself to throw games away. It&#8217;s almost at the point where I&#8217;m playing shots and hoping that if I miss, the opponent will clear up, but that&#8217;s not happening. Someone put me out of my misery, but it&#8217;s not happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The minimum I can do is take a break and see if I can reignite my enthusiasm for the game. Breaks have helped me in the past. I miss something in my life, though I don&#8217;t miss playing. I miss having a purpose in life. That&#8217;s what I realized in 2012 when I took a year out. Steve Peters told me, &#8216;We all need a purpose in life.&#8217; I&#8217;m not sure snooker is my purpose anymore. I&#8217;m not sure it ever was, considering the battles I&#8217;ve had with it. But I&#8217;ve stuck with it to support my family, to keep the family strong, maybe, I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24hscore news Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan, the current World No. 1, continued his impressive streak by narrowly defeating Zhou Yuelong 4-3 to advance to the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix in Leicester. Despite reaching his 141st ranking event quarter-final in his illustrious 32-year career with notable breaks of 67, 107, 50, and 90, O&#8217;Sullivan expressed dissatisfaction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"Ronnie O'Sullivan, the current World No. 1, continued his impressive streak by narrowly defeating Zhou Yuelong 4-3 to advance to the quarter-finals.","footnotes":""},"categories":[816],"tags":[568,817,292],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snooker","tag-ronnie-osullivan","tag-shanghai-masters","tag-snooker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}