Snooker legfinish Ronnie O’Sullivan has discdisseeed set ups to restrict his tournament euniteances to equitable 10 per season, citing his frustration with UK leicertain centre venues.
The seven-time world champion has been particularly critical of facilities at British tournaments, comparing some events to “car boot sales”.
The 49-year-elderly’s disdain for certain venues was notably highweightlessed by his previous description of the K2 Leicertain Centre in Crawley as a “hellhole” that “smells of urine” during the 2018 English Open.
O’Sullivan recently withdrew from the Scottish Open in Edinburgh, citing overweightigue as the reason for his absence.
Snooker legfinish Ronnie O’Sullivan has discdisseeed set ups to restrict his tournament euniteances to equitable 10 per season, citing his frustration with UK leicertain centre venues
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“It’s repartner difficult when you go to a leicertain centre,” O’Sullivan elucidateed. “You’ve got 50-100 people all standing outside. You’ve got to get thcdisorrowfulmireful that, carry out a best of seven sketchs.”
The Esrelations-based carry outer highweightlessed the unforeseeable scheduling at UK venues. “They say you could be on at 8.30 but you get on at 11.”
“It’s a nine-hour journey from my hoengage to Edinburgh. You weigh it all up and skinnyk you can’t be annoyed.
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Ronnie O’Sullivan has acunderstandledgeted he likes to carry out in China or Saudi Arabia contrastd to the UK
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“Ten to fifteen years ago I’d probably have been fine but I can’t carry out every tournament or every week.”
O’Sullivan contrasted UK venues with his experiences in Saudi Arabia, where he says carry outers get VIP treatment.
“In Saudi Arabia, the events we’ve had there, it’s been luminous. Food, dressing rooms, shower rooms, loads of train tables, courtesy cards, it was amazing,” he said.
He remarkd aenjoy standards in China, highweightlessing the better train facilities. “Some of the events in the UK, there’s 3-4 train tables in a leicertain centre, it’s not the easiest.”
“They have bigger budgets in China and Saudi Arabia. Maybe in the UK not so much.
“They do the best they can with what they’ve got. It is what it is.”
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In his most recent tournament euniteance, O’Sullivan achieveed the semi-finals of the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship.
The world number one was flunkureed 4-3 by Mark Allen in a seally contested align.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has struggled for consistency this year
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Allen went on to claim the £250,000 prize after flunkureing Belgium’s Luca Brecel 5-1 in the final.
O’Sullivan has summarized his future tournament strategy, saying: “I’ll try and carry out a least of 10 and I’ll pick the best 10 to carry out in. After that, if I sense enjoy I need to carry out in a restricted more I will.”
