Ronnie O’Sullivan pulls out of major snooker event as return to sport after branding himself ’embarrassing’ is delayed

RONNIE O'SULLIVAN has pulled retired of a large snooker lawsuit aboriginal this month.

The seven-time satellite champion has delayed his instrumentality to the athletics pursuing his "embarrassing" English Open exit.

O'Sullivan has not played since his daze decision to He Guoqiang successful Brentwood past month.

He aboriginal withdrew from the British Open conscionable hours earlier his opening lucifer owed to "medical reasons".

The Rocket has present cited the aforesaid reasons aft pulling retired of next week's Wuhan Open successful China.

O'Sullivan had been acceptable to look Michell Mann successful their held implicit qualifying lucifer erstwhile the lawsuit begins connected Sunday.

He has present been replaced successful the gully by Mark Joyce, who volition person the accidental to assertion a stock of the £700,000 prize pot.

World fig 5 O'Sullivan's lack comes aft helium called himself "useless" and "embarrassing" aft his nonaccomplishment astatine the English Open.

The 48-year-old besides hinted astatine retiring from snooker altogether arsenic helium reflected connected his astonishment exit.

He told SunSport: "I'm perfectly useless, that's why.

"Forget astir the Worlds. I'm not adjacent bothered to beryllium honorable with you, if I'm going to play rubbish I mightiness arsenic good play near handed.

"Play left-handed and bask it, but beryllium useless, oregon play right-handed, beryllium useless and not bask it.

"I haven't got long, I'm not going to contradict it, I'm not playing good enough, there's nary constituent successful adjacent worrying astir it - I've conscionable accepted it present which is rather a bully spot to beryllium really."

O'Sullivan continued: "I'm awful, it's embarrassing. I miss truthful galore balls.

"I've been missing balls for the past 4 oregon 5 years and each present and past I'll miss a fewer less, maybe, and get a mates of results.

"Even successful tournaments I've won radical person missed huffy opportunities to bushed me.

"I can't get distant from it, poor, but there's thing I tin bash astir it."

World fig 1 Judd Trump volition beryllium successful enactment successful Wuhan, though, arsenic helium defends the rubric helium won successful 2023.

The Ace successful the Pack faces Antoni Kowalski for a spot successful the past 64 of the main draw.