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Ronnie O’Sullivan suffered heartbreak in the semi-final and spoke frankly about his future<\/p>\n
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Following his exit, O’Sullivan spoke candidly about his uncertain future in snooker.<\/p>\n
“I think I’m going to be moving out of the UK this year. A new life somewhere else,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll still try and play snooker but I don’t know what the future looks like for me really.”<\/p>\n
The Essex-based player acknowledged the sport’s importance to him whilst indicating other priorities.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of more important things in life to worry about than a game of snooker,” O’Sullivan added.<\/p>\n
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Zhao Xintong put on a masterclass to defeat his idol<\/p>\n
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“For me, it’s a big part of my life but I’ve got to try and figure out what my future looks like, whether it’s playing or not.”<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan confirmed his destination would be the Middle East, where he already has a snooker academy in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be moving away to the Middle East but we’ll see how it goes. I might be back in six months, who knows!” he said.<\/p>\n
The Rocket hinted at significant life changes ahead but remained vague about specifics.<\/p>\n
When asked if he might throw his cue away in frustration, O’Sullivan replied: “I won’t throw it. The merchandise people want it so it’ll be up for sale. But I won’t be throwing it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan has announced plans to leave the UK for the Middle East following his World Snooker Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,512,10380,93,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-72138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-sgg","15":"tag-snooker","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114445984956838205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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