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A FORMER snooker satellite champion has superior fears implicit Ronnie O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan has had an incredibly underwhelming 2024/25 by his 'Rocket' precocious standards.
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The snooker icon has failed to advancement past the past 16 successful his past FOUR tournaments.
Judd Trump, connected the different hand, has been firing connected each cylinders and picking up gongs galore.
And Dennis Taylor reckons O'Sullivan could extremity up getting Trumped by Judd successful years to come.
He told The Daily Express: "There's a anticipation that [Trump] could bash that [set a caller ranking rubric record].
"but there's an atrocious batch of players lasting successful his mode and the level is getting higher each of the time.
"With the mode helium plays the crippled and his interruption building, helium tin spell connected to possibly bushed that record, it would beryllium immoderate record."
Taylor, however, isn't penning disconnected O'Sullivan's chances of rediscovering his signifier of aged and adding to his already rock-solid legacy.
The 1975 satellite champion said: "But past again, Ronnie is not finished yet.
'Smoking excessively overmuch weed and bulk-buying excessively overmuch Smirnoff' - Inside Ronnie O'Sullivan's yo-yo wellness battle
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN’S snooker vocation astir went up successful fume aft buying “too overmuch weed and Smirnoff.”
Ronnie has agelong linked his performances connected the baize with the ups and down successful his fare and workout regime.
The Rocket helium has suffered a beingness of yo-yoing weight, addiction and intelligence wellness struggles, and an often unhealthy narration with nutrient and fitness.
O’Sullivan ballooned to 16st connected vodka and takeaways arsenic a troubled teen, portion “puffing similar a maniac”.
Then, aft turning his beingness around, helium adjacent saw his signifier diminution aft doing to TOO MUCH exercise.
Now close backmost to his best, the seven-time satellite champion has opened up connected his struggles.
"He's struggling rather a bit, Ronnie, possibly distant from the array he's not afloat focused connected the game.
"I'm not definite if helium is putting the signifier in, he's ever done that, Ronnie.
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"And you don't get the results helium gets without putting the signifier in, but there's a small constituent missing astatine the moment."
Trump's latest trophy haul came past play erstwhile helium claimed his 2nd UK Championship with a 10-8 triumph implicit Barry Hawkins.
And helium was speedy to motion disconnected comparisons to O'Sullivan, saying: “I’m not comparing myself to Ronnie.
"I already acceptable the grounds winning six events successful a play and that’s precise peculiar to me.
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"I deliberation the lone happening bigger than that would beryllium to triumph each 3 triple crowns successful a season.
“In presumption of however hard it is to triumph six events, I’d enactment that up determination arsenic highly hard due to the fact that no-one other has done it.
“It’s antithetic for me. I’m successful the hardest epoch of each clip by a mile.
"I’m ever going to beryllium compared to Ronnie and others, but I deliberation the clip has changed.
"I deliberation it’s adjacent harder present to triumph a triple crown.”
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