Steer clear of Ronnie O’Sullivan and back Mark Williams to build on his Champion of Champions success at UK Championship

Mike Tyson has already discovered the 1 hostile you can’t bushed is Father Time – is Ronnie O’Sullivan going done the aforesaid learning process?

Iron Mike was easy beaten connected points by constricted YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul successful Texas astatine the play and looked each portion of his 58 years, landing conscionable 18 punches successful the eight-round contest.

O’Sullivan volition observe his 49th day connected December 5, conscionable 4 days aft snooker’s UK Championship, which starts astatine the Barbican successful York connected Saturday, reaches its thrilling conclusion.

The Rocket is each the rage to beryllium crowned champion for a record-extending ninth clip aft winning past year’s rubric and helium is the apical seed.

He has won the satellite title 7 times, a grounds helium shares with Stephen Hendry, and astatine his highest helium was arsenic devastating connected the greenish baize arsenic erstwhile undisputed satellite heavyweight champion Tyson was connected the canvas successful the boxing ring.

O’Sullivan is besides bully capable to beryllium presently ranked satellite No.5 and since beating Ding Junhui successful this lawsuit 12 months agone helium has won the Masters and the World Grand Prix successful January and the archetypal World Masters of Snooker successful Saudi Arabia. Since then, however, Ronnie has mostly flamed out.

He evidently stands a amended accidental of adding this silverware to his astonishing postulation of trophies than Tyson had of beating Paul, but it makes nary consciousness to backmost the 2nd favourite to triumph the archetypal of this season’s 3 Triple Crown events astatine likelihood of conscionable 11/2 with Betfred.

Judd Trump, the satellite No.1, has won 3 titles this twelvemonth and is the ante-post favourite astatine 4/1 with William Hill, portion reigning satellite champion Kyren Wilson is 8/1 with the aforesaid firm.

But Hills offers 20/1 connected Mark Williams taking the rubric and the Welshman, who is caller from winning the Champion of Champions successful Bolton astatine the play aft reaching the last of the inaugural Saudi Arabia Masters successful September, is decidedly worthy an each-way stake astatine that immense price. 

Who knows, possibly this 49-year-old is 1 aureate oldie who tin instrumentality Father Time to extra-time.

• The FedExCup Fall RSM Classic tees disconnected connected Thursday with Lucas Aberg defending the rubric helium won past year. The Swede is making his archetypal commencement since an cognition successful September to repair a torn miniscus successful his near genu and volition beryllium anxious to marque an contiguous interaction connected his instrumentality to the play course.

Use immoderate of the winnings from our palmy 4/1 stake connected Rory McIlroy to triumph the DP World Championship connected Sunday connected Ryder Cup prima Aberg astatine 10/1 with Sky Bet. Also spell each-way with Brian Harman astatine 25/1 with the aforesaid firm, Ladbrokes and Coral, and Harris English and Ben Griffin, who are some 30/1 with Betfair.

• Italy, who person reached the last of the Billie Jean King Cup, tin gatecrash Rafa Nadal’s farewell to tennis earlier retiring by winning the Davis Cup successful Malaga with satellite No.1 Jannik Sinner starring them to triumph astatine 7/4 with Sky Bet and Bet Victor.

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