Ronnie O’Sullivan says sorry to opponent for ‘dragging him down to my level’
Snooker icon Ronnie O’Sullivan felt compelled to apologise to Barry Hawkins after their surprisingly error-prone match.
The 48-year-old was uncharacteristically error-prone in his quarter-final conflict within the Masters towards Barry Hawkins on Thursday (January 11) at Alexandra Palace. The Rocket has seven Masters titles – a joint-record variety of championships shared with Stephen Hendry – and bids to turn into the only proprietor of one in every of snooker’s most prestigious data.
While claiming a 6-3 victory to guide his place into the semi-final, it was a scrappy match between the pair with O’Sullivan shockingly miscuing a anticipated pot of the pink with the white ball leaping and utterly lacking the ball.
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His errors triggered the group to snort at him and after his win, the snooker legend spoke to Rob Walker and profusely apologised to Hawkins, 44, and referred to as himself “lucky” to get by to the ultimate 4.
“I just feel sorry for Barry,” stated O’Sullivan. “He was playing good until he started playing me and I just dragged him down to probably the most awful standard of snooker. So I’m really sorry about that today but I’m just lucky to get through is all I can say.”
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Fans on social media could not consider what they had been watching with many surprised on the poor efficiency from O’Sullivan together with his miscue blunder the spotlight of the sport. One X (previously often called Twitter) wrote: “Can’t even remember the last time I saw Ronnie miscue a shot before today.”
Another fan commented: “Who’s swapped Ronnie O’Sullivan for an amateur?” whereas a 3rd added: “Can’t even remember the last time I saw Ronnie miscue a shot before today.” It’ll be the 48-year-old’s fifteenth Masters semi-final the place he’ll tackle the winner of Shaun Murphy vs Jack Lisowski.
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