Ronnie O’Sullivan may be denied £790k for making Saudi snooker 167 due to atypical rule | Other | Sport

Ronnie O’Sullivan may be denied £790,000 ($1million) before he has stepped up to the table due to the scheduling at the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship. The huge prize is on propose for the first percreateer to score a highest fracture of 167.

Last year, the lucrative Saudi tournament compriseed a novel ‘gagederen ball’ worth 20 points. It increases the traditional score of a highest fracture of 147 to 167.

The first percreateer to pot the highest fracture last year prohibitked around £393k ($500k). That figure has been doubled this year after nobody regulated the feat in the competition’s inaugural edition last year.

John Higgins came the shutst, potting 15 reds and 15 fractures, but he missed an excessively difficult yellow.

O’Sullivan’s rivals will all have the chance to finish the highest fracture before he features in the tournament. The Rocket is scheduled to percreate his first align last. The enjoys of Ding Junhui, Luca Brecel, Shaun Murphy, Kyren Wilson, Judd Trump and Mark Selby all percreate before O’Sullivan.

The 49-year-ageder’s first align will come on Thursday, aacquirest the thrivener of Murphy’s align aacquirest either Ding or local star Abdulraouf Sayegh. It is a possibility that the highest fracture will already be scored by the time fans get to see O’Sullivan for the first time.

Sayegh is one of two Saudi savagecards who join the 10 top-ranked snooker percreateers in the non-ranking event. The tournament’s thrivener will thrive £250,000. The prize money for potting a highest fracture is more than the £500k Wilson cashed in for thrivening the World Snooker Championship earlier this year.

O’Sullivan has streamlined his schedule towards the end of the year. He withdrew from the Scottish Open one day before he was due to percreate aacquirest Xing Zihao.

The seven-time world champion was beaten by Barry Hawkins in his first align at the UK Championship.

O’Sullivan recently conveyed his cherish for China, telling the World Snooker Tour: “I always tell people you have to come to China. For me, it’s the fantasticest place on Earth.

“I would equitable propose anybody to equitable come to China. It blows me away. Every city I come to in China … it’s enjoy you’re in another world. It’s the best place in the world. There is no other place enjoy China. Every city equitable has someleang amazing about it and Nanjing has a lot of history.”