Posted on 08/17/2020 9:41:43 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Perhaps when you weigh everything up, it's only right that this unique World Snooker Championship belongs to Ronnie O’Sullivan. There are many words you could use to describe the six-times world champion, but when it comes to moments such as these, there are simply not enough superlatives for snooker’s great ringmaster.
You wondered whether the impact of fans being unable to attend the majority of this year’s event would stunt the flow of the sport’s big names. Not O’Sullivan. You often wonder how the tag of overwhelming favourite can play on the mind of a sportsman in a final. Not O’Sullivan, who had realistically put this final to bed long before he formally did so at 7.47pm on Sunday evening.
Maybe the final scoreline was harsh on Kyren Wilson, who has emerged as one of the sport’s true stars of the future on the way to his first world final. In any other final, against any other opponent, the chances he missed on Sunday afternoon when the final definitively went against him would have not been so costly.
O’Sullivan is now just one behind Stephen Hendry’s record of seven world titles, but what next for snooker’s unpredictable enigma? “If I happen to win another that will be fantastic,” he said afterwards. “If I don’t, I’ve had a wonderful career and snooker has given me many pleasurable moments. If I wanted to go out and break records I wouldn’t play as well.”
After limping his way to a three-frame overnight lead on Saturday, you always felt as though snooker’s true rock and roll star had something special up his sleeve. O’Sullivan was inside the Crucible from 9am on Sunday morning practising, and just a few hours later he had won the afternoon session 7-1 to move 17-8 ahead.
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I prefer 9 ball :)
I love Snooker !
She’s so cute!...................
Obama won the world snooker title.
Twice.
Another thing I like about Snooker is that there’s no taking knees, no political statements, no patches other than legitimate sponsors and the only thing that matters is making the next shot.
IIRC, it’s been 50 years since I played.
The table is larger than a standard billiard table.
The balls are smaller.
There are numbered balls and solid red balls.
You have to shoot the numbered balls in order, and score the face points.
Then you have to shoot a red ball and sink it in order shoot a numbered ball again........IIRC.....
Yes the table is 12’ x 6’
So you have the red balls and the colored balls. Red balls are worth 1 point each and the colors go from 2 to 7 points. You have to make a red ball then a colored ball, red ball, colored ball, etc. until all of the red balls are done, then you have to sink the colored balls in a certain order. If you can do that all without a miss you get the maximum of 147 points. It happens so rarely that John Higgins got the only 147 in this year's championship and he received $65,000 for doing it.
That video you posted is an absolute masterpiece. Not only does he have to get position to make a red then a black over and over he figured it all out in less than 6 minutes. Try even running a rack shooting at anything you want in that amount of time.
I learned to play Snooker when I was about 12, but haven’t played since I was 14, as none of the places around have snooker tables.....................
Not Snooker, but I could watch this 100 times.
Minnesota Fats vs Willie Mosconi - Legendary Match announced by Howard Cosell
Simply amazing he ran that whole cluster like that
And often from an open bridge way off the ball
What control he has on that cue
Very impressive
You can see why he dominates skill pool worldwide
Sorry 9 ballers no offense
That’s nothing.
Joementia Biden has been snookering the Voters for 50 Years.
And he spanked him on a bad day. He was really struggling with his cue action. :)
Ronnie was playing professionally by the time he was 14. You can see his first tv appearance at 14 by searching for it on YouTube. When he won his first major title he brought the trophy to his father, who was in prison for murder. Ronnie’s life has never been boring, to say the least.
Still remember staying up as a young boy to watch the end of the 1985 final, when Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis 18-17 on the last ball of the last frame. It literally couldn’t have been a closer contest. 18.5 million people watched it, which is still a record for BBC 2.
As a big Steve Davis fan I was not amused.
They had real characters back then - Davis, Canada’s Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White, Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, Willie Thorne, Taylor... today’s players seem far more robotic and colorless - apart from Ronnie O’Sullivan that is. He is a genius who would have been a major star in any era.
Jimmy White is still around. He is defending his World Seniors title soon. For the first time since he retired Stephen Hendry is also going to play. Steve Davis does commentary for BBC sports. He was at this year’s World Championship.
Snooker players never use a closed bridge. The snooker part of snooker comes from when they hide you behind a ball so you have to go off of cushions to hit your ball. Modern snooker players are so good at escaping that it’s almost impossible to keep them snickered for long. Do a YouTube search for snooker escapes to see some amazing ball control.
Either Dyslexia or Dementia is starting to creep in, out of the corner of my eye I thought the title read,
“Rosie O’Donnell outclasses Kyren Wilson to win sixth world snooker title”.
In other words, who did she snooker?
LOL.
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