Ronnie O’Sullivan is more dangerous than ever at age 46, the World Cup semi-final was the most precious legacy of the historic championship

A master of white stroke control that makes the game look ridiculously easy.

That mantra has been repeated Ronnie from O’Sullivan speaking since 1993, when he won the UK Championship, one of the giant snooker tournaments. O’Sullivan became the youngest winner of a ranking tournament in history at the age of 17 and 358 days. The record is still valid.

Since then, the record-making of the English star has been unprecedented, and the pace is not slowing down. On Monday, May 2, 2022, O’Sullivan became the oldest winner of the World Cup in history at the age of 46 and 148 days.

The seventh World Cup title lifted him to the split number one spot in Scotland Stephen Hendryn with regard to the number of championships in the iconic home of the sport, the Crucible Theater, which has hosted the World Cup since 1977.

O’Sullivan has achieved everything possible in snooker, but especially over the last ten years, he has had to be compared to Hendry and the magical seven World Championship titles after virtually every record.

Although Hendry dominated snooker circles in practice in the 1990s, O’Sullivan was already named the best snooker stick player of all time, even though he had not yet won a single world championship.

The crackling and fast-paced way of playing elevated O’Sullivan to popularity, which he still enjoys. Admittedly, as a completely different player than in the early days.

The rise of O’Sullivan as the best player of all time is also the most successful story of all time, the beginning of which was colored by the hardships of civilian life.

Most notably, O’Sullivan’s father was imprisoned for the murder, and his mother also ended up in stone for tax fraud. In a confusing life situation, O’Sullivan was only able to show off part of his snooker potential, but substance abuse problems prevented his career from blossoming.

However, the inevitable was ahead. O’Sullivan won his first world championship in 2001, in other words, very quickly after his substance abuse withdrawal.

However, the addiction only changed the address. A new one was found in the run, exemplified by O’Sullivan’s 10,000-meter record: 34 minutes and 51 seconds. For O’Sullivan would have been the 50th fastest Finnish man on the trip last summer.

The biggest change has taken place on the mental side. In the 21st century, O’Sullivan began playing the game for himself after the previous decade had been inspired by his father in prison.

In the 1990s, O’Sullivan played snooker instinctively, which practically meant a lightning-fast and ultra-offensive style of play. With them, O’Sullivan earned his nickname The Rocket, but the one-sided way of playing did not bring success.

After the 1970s won six world championships Ray Reardon hit the O’Sullivan in the early 2000s with world-class safety gaming, O’Sullivan’s position as the most popular player in the sport has only grown with championships and records.

In this year’s World Cup, the best example of O’Sullivan’s holiness was in the semi-finals John Higgins against. In small tournaments, O’Sullivan spends an average of 15 to 16 seconds on beats, which is very much the same time as in the 1990s, while in degrees larger than a degree, the average reading is about 19 to 21 seconds. That was also largely the case in this year’s World Cup.

However, even the custom watcher was able to notice how O’Sullivan played against Higgins at a slower pace than normal, using his punches to average about 23 seconds. The reason is especially the respect O’Sullivan feels for his peer, Higgins, who was born in 1975.

Hiiggins has been an extremely difficult opponent for O’Sullivan for the past 16 years. During that time, O’Sullivan has won Higgins only once in long matches and suffered a defeat seven times.

Higgins was a tough test for O’Sullivan at this year’s World Cup.

O’Sullivan’s way of winning that match was the most expensive legacy he’s leaving from this World Cup tournament for the sport. Unlike so often before, O’Sullivan played one of the best long matches of his career against Higgins: he treated every ball with care, was disciplined, and severely pressured Higgins by a relentless percentage.

O’Sullivan scored a whopping 17 sets of more than 50 points in the 17-11 match.

Ruthless, the kind O’Sullivan really had for his opponents in the 2022 World Cup. The 46-year-old has the ability to adapt to future situations within the game better than ever, making him unprecedentedly dangerous.

In recent years, O’Sullivan’s concentration may have disintegrated into long batches in which the balls were not favorable for making strokes, but the co-operation mind control guru that began in 2011 Steve Petersin with still bearing fruit.

The most recent World Championship title already had a hint of even terrifying superiority, with O’Sullivan’s bagging safety in the entire tournament after 16 days at an incredible 94 percent. In the 17-day World Cup, virtually every winner has played at least one bad session in their championship year in history, but O’Sullivan seemed to make an exception for a long time.

It was only in the third session of the finals that O’Sullivan was first seen with human traits, or overtones. Despite Trump taking the opportunity to take a 6-2 session, O’Sullivan’s seven-place lead on the opening day ultimately proved to be too far ahead.

The 2022 World Cup will be remembered not only for O’Sullivan’s seventh World Cup title but also for the historic batting series fireworks. The Crucible Theater saw 109 sets of beats at a minimum of one hundred points. The crown was, of course Neil Robertson bagged 147-point maximum break.

However, Centuries are an impractical metric when looking at the level of the game. O’Sulliva’s show-making ability can be illustrated by comparing the series of over 50 points made in the tournament to his previous championship years. With this measure, too, O’Sullivan bagged history books for new ones.

O’Sullivan’s pull-up game – the ability to transport the white ball to the next target ball as well as possible after bagging – was in a class of its own through the World Cup. Although the epic semi-finals Judd Trumpille gone Mark Williams made a record-breaking number of 100-point strokes in the tournament, 16, he was also unable to maintain the level of his game to be able to measure O’Sullivan.

Winning the seventh World Championship in a fabulously hard-won tournament was the most demanding test of O’Sullivan’s career to date, passing the 46-year-old champion to shed tears as soon as the championship was decided and later in the studio. There was no information about the corresponding emotional turmoil in the six previous wins.

Although O’Sullivan is the best player of all time, a superstar who is virtually impossible to beat when he plays his best, he hasn’t been nearly the best possible ambassador for snooker over the years.

As it has been the most popular player in the sport, his dozens of questionable snatches both on and off the board have been looked through. In the eyes of many, O’Sullivan has been forgiven too many times.

The collaboration with psychiatrist Steve Peters, which began in 2011, and the work of Eurosport as an expert in recent years have stripped O’Sullivan of the best gaming aspects, with the difference that, unlike in recent years, new scandals have not counterbalanced top performance.

O’Sullivan is the brightest crown jewel in snooker, the seventh championship that the majority of those who followed the final hoped for. And while some hoped for the opposite result, it’s certain that O’Sullivan will arouse the opinions of the next viewer in every snooker. That alone makes him invaluable to the species.

Given O’Sullivan’s playing skills as well as his physical and mental fitness factors, he’s not giving space to his younger ones for a while yet. The biggest winner is snooker.