Ronnie O’Sullivan’s brutal assessment of his game after shock English Open defeat

Ronnie O’Sullivan described his show arsenic ‘useless’ and ’embarrassing’ arsenic helium was beaten 4-2 by He Guoqiang astatine the English Open connected Tuesday night.

It was the Rocket’s archetypal lucifer of the lawsuit and it got disconnected to a disastrous commencement arsenic the Chinese won the archetypal 3 frames, with breaks of 78 and 77 on the way.

O’Sullivan won the adjacent 2 but He got implicit the enactment with different half-century to support up his 100 per cent winning grounds implicit the Rocket, with 2 victories from 2 meetings.

As helium has been doing this play truthful far, O’Sullivan played a batch of shots left-handed and erstwhile asked astir his prime to bash so, helium told The Sun: ‘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.’

The 48-year-old has not had a atrocious commencement to the play by astir players’ standards, with a semi-final astatine the Shanghai Masters and quarter-final tally astatine the Saudi Arabia Masters, but helium is acold from blessed with his game.

Despite winning 5 events past season, the seven-time satellite champion feels similar his vocation is coming to an extremity with diminution mounting in.

‘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,’ helium said.

‘I’m awful, it’s embarrassing. I miss truthful galore balls. I can’t get distant from it, poor, but there’s thing I tin bash astir it.’

He was evidently thrilled to bushed the fable of the baize for the 2nd clip since the commencement of the play aft downing O’Sullivan 3-0 successful the Championship League.

The 24-year-old present faces Stephen Maguire successful the past 32 successful Brentwood and volition beryllium afloat of assurance successful the clash connected Wednesday evening.

‘It feels superb to bushed him again. It is an unreal feeling and similar I americium dreaming. I didn’t expect astatine each to triumph again,’ He said.

‘I deliberation the cardinal is to execute my champion and to play my ain game. I conscionable needed to get escaped of the fearfulness attached to playing a apical subordinate similar Ronnie. There were truthful galore spectators here, each supporting him. It didn’t let maine to deliberation of thing different than my ain performance.

‘The champion happening I person learned implicit past fewer months is however to play against apical players and get escaped of fearfulness and emotion of facing them. That is the astir improved portion of my game.’

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