Ronnie O'Sullivan (England)
See also O'Sullivan's profile in the Score Centre
Basic Facts
| Born |
December 5, 1975 |
| Lives |
Chigwell, Essex, England |
| Nickname |
"The Rocket" |
| Turned pro |
1992 |
| Twitter |
@ronnieo147 |
| Highest pro break |
147 (15 times:
1997 Embassy World Championship,
1999 Welsh Open,
1999 Grand Prix
2000 Regal Scottish Open,
2001 LG Cup,
2003 Embassy World Championship (video),
2007 Northern Ireland Trophy,
2007 Maplin UK Championship,
2008 888.Com World Championship,
2010 12BET.com World Open,
2011 PTC 4 (Paul Hunter Classic)),
2014 Welsh Open,
2014 Coral UK Championship,
2018 China Open and
2018 English Open
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| Highest ranked |
1 (2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2019) |
| Current ranking (6 Apr 2019) |
1 |
| World Championship best |
Winner five times
(2001,
2004,
2008,
2012 and
2013)
|
| Best ranking event performance |
Winner of 36 tournaments:
UK Championship 1993,
1997,
2001,
2007,
2014,
2017,
2018;
British Open 1994;
Asian Classic 1996;
German Open 1996;
Scottish Open 1998,
2000;
China International/Open 1999 (December),
2000;
World Championship 2001,
2004,
2008,
2012,
2013;
European Open 2003;
Irish Masters 2003,
2005;
Welsh Open 2004,
2005,
2014,
2016;
Grand Prix 2004;
Northern Ireland Trophy 2008;
Shanghai Masters 2009,
2017,
2018,
2019;
German Masters 2012;
English Open 2017;
World Grand Prix 2018;
Players Championship 2018,
2019;
Tour Championship 2019
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| Minor ranking event wins |
2011 Players Tour Championship Event One;
2011 Players Tour Championship Event Seven;
2013 Euro Tour Event Four (Paul Hunter Classic)
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| Major invitation tournament victories: |
Masters 1995,
2005,
2007,
2009,
2014,
2016;
Regal Scottish Masters 1998,
2000,
2002;
Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge 1996;
Champions Cup 2000;
Irish Masters 2001;
Champion of Champions 2013,
2014,
2018;
Shanghai Masters 2018
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| Speciality |
Wrong-handed play |
| Achievements |
Ronnie made his first century when he was 10 years old. At 15 yr 98 days he became the youngest player ever to make a maximum in tournament play, during the English Amateur Championship (Southern Area) at Aldershot, Hants on 13 Mar 1991. Seven years later he made a maximum in just 5 min 20 seconds (or was it 5 min 8 seconds?) in the 1997 Embassy World Championship.
He holds the record for most maximums in professional competition with 15.
In the last frame of the final of 2019 Players Championship he became the first player to make 1000 centuries.
He has won 72 titles in all (from appr 101 finals). His most important being the 2001 Embassy World Championship, the 2004 Embassy World Championship and the 2008 888.Com World Championship, the 2012 Betfred.com World Championship and the 2013 Betfair World Championship. The 1993 UK win made him the youngest ever winner of a ranking event, at 17 yr 11 mn.
O'Sullivan is one of only five players to win both the World Championship and the UK Championship in the same year.
Steve Davis,
Stephen Hendry,
John Parrott and
John Higgins are the others.
In 1993 he won the WBSA Young Player of the Year award and the following year he was named Player of the Year.
He beat
Ken Doherty in the final of the
1998 Benson & Hedges Irish Masters, but was later stripped of the title after failing a drug test.
During the summer of 1992, Ronnie won 38 consecutive matches in qualifying competition.
He won a record-equalling five ranking titles in the 2017/2018 season.
He is tied with Stephen Hendry for most career ranking titles with 36.
By winning the 2010 Party Casino Premier League Ronnie O'Sulivan became the first man to win a single professional title on nine separate occasions, surpassing Steve Davis' previous record of eight. He also won in 2011 to make it 10.
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| Miscellaneous |
Famous for playing with his left hand. Claims to have made a century while practicing that way.
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Results in Ranking Events (94/95 - 01/02)
See O'Sullivan's profile in the Score Centre for results from 2010/2011 and onwards.
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