Ronnie O’Sullivan’s ‘finest shot ever’ despatched Crucible crowd wild in essential body

Ronnie O’Sullivan has produced some sensational photographs on the Crucible over time, however his favorite was one he hit towards John Higgins throughout final 12 months’s World Championship.

The two bitter rivals confronted one another within the semi-finals and O’Sullivan dipped into his field of beautiful methods to bypass the Wizard of Wishaw in typically-scintillating trend. The Rocket was up 9-6 however Higgins was in full management of the sixteenth body and regarded set to shut the hole, just for O’Sullivan to activate the model.

He was confronted with a fiendishly robust purple down the size of the desk to the yellow pocket, with the pink and black hugging one another on the different finish. Potting the purple was problem sufficient, however O’Sullivan managed to bounce the white off two cushions and land on the black, knocking it away from the pink within the course of.

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“I was 43 points behind with two reds on and the pink and black were tied up,” O’Sullivan mentioned, recalling the second whereas talking to Eurosport.

“I potted the red into the yellow bag, screwed across the side cushion, the back cushion and over to the other side cushion, got onto the black and potted the black. That red for me was as well as I could hit a ball. I remember that shot pretty well. That was one of my best.”

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The black was re-spotted, permitting for a clear hit into the underside proper nook pocket and ultimately a momentum-shifting body win which put him 10-6 in entrance. After dispatching Higgins 17-11, he then beat Judd Trump 18-13 within the closing to clinch a record-tying seventh world title.

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1994 Masters winner Alan McManus insisted O’Sullivan’s favorite shot was among the best he’d ever witnessed, branding the 47-year-old a “genius”. He mentioned: “The red and black are the two best shots I’ve seen back-to-back in a World Championship semi-final.”