Ronnie O’Sullivan has stated that he plans to play extra left-handed snooker throughout the 2024/25 season.
The Rocket posted a brief video on Instagram with the caption: “Me enjoying in China…what can you see that I’m doing in a different way?”
“Quite a lot of you bought it proper,” he later wrote alongside a picture of the 48 year-old lining up a shot together with his much less dominant hand.
“[I’m] gonna play extra left handed to any extent further. It makes me blissful,” O’Sullivan stated accompanied with a dancing emoji.
O’Sullivan has lengthy been heralded for his potential to carry out at a excessive degree whereas utilizing each his proper and his left arms.
There was a interval in his early years as knowledgeable throughout the Nineties when opposing gamers took offence to his unorthodox ambidextrous strategy.
Alain Robidoux was left unimpressed when a younger O’Sullivan accomplished a 10-3 hammering of the Canadian on the 1996 World Championship together with his apparently weaker hand.
Nevertheless it didn’t take lengthy for individuals to grasp that O’Sullivan wasn’t disrespecting his opponents, relatively trying to reinforce his personal sport to a superior degree.
Within the a long time since, O’Sullivan’s tendency to interchange between his proper and left arms has turn out to be so seamless in frames that it typically goes unnoticed.
It will likely be fascinating, then, to see simply how incessantly he chooses to play together with his much less dominant hand throughout this fledgling marketing campaign.
Ronnie O’Sullivan is subsequent in motion on the inaugural Xi’an Grand Prix, the brand new rating match which begins on Monday in China.
The seven-time world champion encounters Wang Yuchen in his held-over round-of-128 fixture within the competitors.
O’Sullivan overtly admits to loving enjoying in China, having fun with the status and glamour that comes with taking part in most tournaments there.
Sharing movies and pictures of his pre-tournament routine, together with getting massages and having fun with the fantastic eating on supply, O’Sullivan wrote: “That is [how] they do it in China.”
“What an incredible nation China is. Don’t imagine what you hear about China within the Western media.”
Regardless of his fondness for the nation, it has been a number of years since O’Sullivan final triumphed at a Chinese language rating occasion.
Clearly, there have been the leans years throughout the pandemic when no occasions have been being staged within the space.
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Xi’an Grand Prix data
However you must return to 2017 for the Englishman’s most up-to-date success at this degree, when the Shanghai Masters was staged as a rating match for the ultimate time.
He after all went on to win three extra Shanghai Masters crowns after that when the occasion transitioned to invitational standing.
In the course of the 2023/24 snooker season, O’Sullivan received two rating titles however his finest show in China got here on the Worldwide Championship when he was overwhelmed within the semi-finals.
The Xi’an Grand Prix carries a profitable high prize value £177,000.
2024 Xi’an Grand Prix draw
Spherical of 128 (bo9)
High Half
Kyren Wilson vs Haris Tahir (Aug 19)
He Guoqiang 5-4 Ashley Carty
Anthony McGill 5-0 Xing Zihao
Ricky Walden 5-3 Liam Davies
John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
Sunny Akani 5-2 Fan Zhengyi
Dean Younger 5-3 Robert Milkins
Jimmy Robertson 5-1 Huang Jiahao
Elliot Slessor 5-0 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Chris Wakelin 5-4 Rory Thor
Mark Davis 5-3 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Mark Williams 5-0 Liam Graham
Jamie Jones 5-2 Mostafa Dorgham
Stuart Bingham vs Zhou Jinhao (Aug 19)
Xu Si 5-4 Jiang Jun
Ding Junhui vs Alfie Burden (Aug 19)
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Wang Yuchen (Aug 19)
Révész Bulcsú 5-0 David Grace
Neil Robertson 5-2 Allan Taylor
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Bai Yulu
Zhang Anda vs Oliver Traces (Aug 19)
Graeme Dott vs Ma Shaojun(Aug 19)
Hossein Vafaei 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Dylan Emery 5-2 Jackson Web page
Amir Sarkhosh 5-3 Joshua Thomond
Si Jiahui 5-4 Jimmy White
Gong Chenzhi 5-4 Anthony Hamilton
Tom Ford 5-3 Stan Moody
Matthew Selt 5-2 Ian Burns
Joe O’Connor 5-3 Duane Jones
Zak Surety 5-2 Sanderson Lam
Hammad Miah w/o Luca Brecel
Backside Half
Judd Trump 5-2 Antony Kowalski
Ma Hailong 5-3 Martin O’Donnell
Lyu Haotian 5-2 Baipat Siripaporn
Artemijs Zizins 5-3 Robbie Williams
Jak Jones 5-4 Robbie McGuigan
Tian Pengfei 5-0 Farakh Ajaib
Jack Lisowski 5-1 Ross Muir
Joe Perry 5-0 Mink Nutcharut
Jordan Brown 5-2 Liam Pullen
David Gilbert 5-1 Reanne Evans
Ben Mertens 5-4 Simon Blackwell
Gary Wilson 5-4 Lengthy Zehuang
Paul Deaville 5-3 Wu Yize
Pang Junxu 5-2 Michael Holt
Aaron Hill 5-2 Chris Totten
Mark Selby vs Wang Xinbo (Aug 19)
Shaun Murphy 5-1 Mitchell Mann
Jamie Clarke vs Cao Jin (Aug 19)
Noppon Saengkham 5-3 Andrew Pagett
Dominic Dale 5-4 Mohammed Shehab
Daniel Wells 5-4 Ali Carter
Julien Leclercq 5-4 Ben Woollaston
Zhou Yuelong 5-1 Haydon Pinhey
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Lei Peifan
Matthew Stevens 5-0 Andrew Higginson
Ryan Day 5-4 Cheung Ka Wai
Scott Donaldson w/o Lim Kok Leong
Barry Hawkins 5-1 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Xiao Guodong 5-2 Iulian Boiko
Stephen Maguire 5-1 Ken Doherty
David Lilley 5-3 Louis Heathcote
Mark Allen vs Liu Hongyu (Aug 19)
Spherical of 64 (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Monday, August nineteenth and Tuesday, August twentieth
High Half
Ok. Wilson/Tahir vs He Guoqiang
Anthony McGill vs Ricky Walden
John Higgins vs Sunny Akani
Dean Younger vs Jimmy Robertson
Elliot Slessor vs Chris Wakelin
Mark Davis vs Mark Williams
Jamie Jones vs Bingham/Zhou J.
Xu Si vs Ding/Burden
O’Sullivan/Wang Y. vs Bulcsú Révész
Neil Robertson vs Yuan Sijun
Zhang/O. Traces vs Dott/Ma S.
Hossein Vafaei vs Dylan Emery
Amir Sarkhosh vs Si Jiahui
Gong Chenzhi vs Tom Ford
Matthew Selt vs Joe O’Connor
Zak Surety vs Hammad Miah
Backside Half
Judd Trump vs Ma Hailong
Lyu Haotian vs Artemijs Zizins
Jak Jones vs Tian Pengfei
Jack Lisowski vs Joe Perry
Jordan Brown vs David Gilbert
Ben Mertens vs Gary Wilson
Paul Deaville vs Pang Junxu
Aaron Hill vs Selby/Wang X.
Shaun Murphy vs Clarke/Cao
Noppon Saengkham vs Dominic Dale
Daniel Wells vs Julien Leclercq
Zhou Yuelong vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Matthew Stevens vs Ryan Day
Barry Hawkins w/o Scott Donaldson
Xiao Guodong vs Stephen Maguire
David Lilley vs Allen/Liu
Spherical of 32 (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Wednesday, August twenty first
High Half
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Backside Half
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs Barry Hawkins
TBC vs TBC
Spherical of 16 (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Thursday, August twenty second
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Quarter-Finals (bo9)
Matches to be performed on Friday, August twenty third
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Semi-Finals (bo11)
Matches to be performed on Saturday, August twenty fourth
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Last (bo19)
Match to be performed on Sunday, August twenty fifth
TBC vs TBC
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