Former snooker world champ Neil Robertson insists he should make his opponents ‘suffer’ as he appears to get again to his finest.
The Australian has had a season to neglect to date with him but to succeed in the final 16 of any rating occasion in certainly one of his worst seasons so far, and after an unspectacular marketing campaign final time, he has tumbled down the rankings.
Robertson is on target to drop out of the highest 16 and appears prone to need to qualify to succeed in the World Championship on the Crucible in April. However, the 2010 world champ’s runs of 87, 78, 135 and 86 helped him beat world No.36 Jimmy Robertson in Berlin on the German Masters.
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Following his 5-0 thrashing of Jimmy, Robertson instructed WST about his new mentality to place his poor run of type behind him, he stated: “It’s very simply achieved. You take your eye off the ball for only a second and you may’t simply say, “oh, I’m going to begin successful now.
“This season I used to be like, I’m going to follow laborious and begin successful once more, however it’s not like that. All of a sudden your opponents suppose, ‘possibly he’s not enjoying so properly’ after which they increase their sport. I must put everybody down. I believe that’s 10 consecutive frames I’ve gained in a row now.
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“I need to get back to being brutal and just burying my opponents into the ground. There’s no more happy smiley handshakes. I want the worst for my opponent on the table. Away from it no problem, but on the table I want them to suffer. That’s what I’ve got to get back to.”
Currently ranked at No.7 on the planet, Robertson’s type means he’s projected to lose his spot within the prime eight and subsequently miss out on the profitable Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker in Saudi Arabia in March.