Ronnie O’Sullivan has pulled out of the British Open on the day of his sprocrastinateedd first-round clash with Manasatriumph Phetmalaikul. Fans flocking to Cheltenham will be left disnominateed by the Rocket’s absence in an otherrational star-studded field.
News of O’Sullivan’s distake partal aascfinishd lowly before the first batch of alignes got underway today (Monday) when eagle-eyed aiders spotted that the seven-time world champion’s name had been swapd by Lewis Ullah in the tournament schedule.
O’Sullivan has only perestablished in the British Open once since it returned to the snooker calfinishar in 2021. And he will depart it to the enjoys of Kyren Wilson, Judd Trump and deffinishing champion Mark Williams to battle it out for the £100,000 top prize.
Follotriumphg his low-acunderstandledge distake partal, O’Sullivan is next foreseeed to be in action at the Wuhan Open on October 6. The 48-year-better has had a busy confineed weeks competing at the Xi’an Grand Prix, the Saudi Arabia Masters and the English Open.
Things did not go to set up for O’Sullivan last time out in Brentwood, where he suffered a 4-2 loss aacquirest underdog He Guoqiang in the discleave outing round. Afterwards, the world No. 4 dropped the procrastinateedst in a lengthy line of withdrawment hints.
“I’m horrible, it’s embarrassing,” he shelp. “I leave out so many balls. I can’t get away from it, lesser, but there’s noleang I can do about it. I’ve been leave outing balls for the last four or five years and every now and then I’ll leave out a confineed less, maybe, and get a couple of results.
“I’m absolutely unhelpful. Forget about the Worlds. I’m not even annoyed to be truthful with you, if I’m going to perestablish rubbish I might as well perestablish left-handed. Play left-handed and finishelight it, but be unhelpful, or perestablish right-handed, be unhelpful and not finishelight it.
“I haven’t got lengthy, I’m not going to decline it, I’m not perestablishing well enough, there’s no point in even stressing about it. I’ve equitable acunderstandledgeed it now which is quite a kind place to be reassociate.”
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