final by an incredible performance by Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-Nooh<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I can only take one day, one week at a time. I can’t look any further than a week at the moment, with my career,” said O’Sullivan.<\/p>\n
“I’ve not been playing for a reason, just because I haven’t had a game good enough to compete. So I’ve been trying to find that on the practice table and hopefully bring it to the match table.<\/p>\n
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Ronnie O’Sullivan was beaten by Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in a high quality World Open final <\/p>\n
“I’ve had quite a good year, really. I felt like I played really quite good at the start of the season, better than I was, and then I had a dip for a couple of months. January and February wasn’t good and I thought ‘here we go,’ but I’ve managed to pull it back a little bit.<\/p>\n
“We’ll just see how it goes. I wasn’t even going to play in the World Championship 10 days ago because I was too scared. I felt like I would embarrass myself. But now I feel I probably will go, because I feel like I might pot a few balls. It’s not great, I’m not in a great, great place with it, but I’m better than I was maybe two weeks ago.”<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan last won the World Championship in 2022 and is still looking to surpass Stephen Hendry to a record-breaking eighth Crucible title.<\/p>\n
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The last significant record Ronnie O’Sullivan needs to beat in snooker is Stephen Hendry’s seven world titles <\/p>\n
‘The Rocket’ will not play any other televised tournaments before the World Championship in Sheffield on April 18 to May 4 but is “not getting too excited or too down” about his performance in China.<\/p>\n
“Everyone’s played okay against me this week, so my game is good enough to beat players playing okay,” said O’Sullivan.<\/p>\n
“I just can’t get to the potting angle of certain shots, I can play maybe 60-70 per cent of shots comfortably, but there’s other shots I just don’t have in my locker. When someone plays like that, I’m just one-dimensional, really. It limits what I can do and the amount of pressure I can put on my opponent. I just have to accept that’s how it is.<\/p>\n
“On the whole I’m in a much better place now that I was in the last three years and I was two weeks ago. But it could easily fall apart and be in a bad place again soon. I’m just taking each day and week as it comes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan has opened up about his form this season after he reached the final of the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[181711,84784,12767,28976,13391,5214,181721,181715,18,24010,181707,10952,19,17,36342,13540,181713,181718,181710,146176,5,181719,954,24242,181717,33768,795,130583,28404,140022,181709,2792,181712,4636,154640,132,181714,181708,181716,43779,178956,110912,1294,181720,181706,2683],"class_list":["post-400285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allister-carter","tag-bahrain","tag-black","tag-blue","tag-brown","tag-chinese","tag-cue","tag-ding-junhui","tag-eire","tag-final","tag-grand-prix","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-perry","tag-john-higgins","tag-marco-fu","tag-mark-king","tag-mark-selby","tag-mark-williams","tag-news","tag-nigel-bond","tag-northern-ireland","tag-open","tag-peter-ebdon","tag-pink","tag-premier-league","tag-rankings","tag-red","tag-ronnie-osullivan","tag-ryan-day","tag-shanghai","tag-shaun-murphy","tag-sky-sports","tag-snooker","tag-sports","tag-stephen-hendry","tag-stephen-maguire","tag-steve-davis","tag-table","tag-the-masters","tag-trophy","tag-uk","tag-welsh","tag-world-championship","tag-yellow"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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