Ronnie O’Sullivan will start his tilt to win an eighth World Snooker Championship crown on Wednesday in Sheffield.
The Rocket will make his thirty second consecutive look on the Crucible Theatre when he takes on Jackson Web page in spherical one in 2024.
O’Sullivan has skilled a number of ups and downs on the 17-day event famously dubbed by Clive Everton because the “Marathon of the Thoughts”.
There have been years when he has blown the opposition away, notably in 2013 when he defied a yr’s sabbatical from the game to triumph for a fifth time.
Glories previous to that materialised in 2001, 2004, 2008, and 2012 as he established himself as the sport’s formidable pressure.
O’Sullivan then added extra success in 2020 and 2022, the latter representing a record-equalling seventh world title of the fashionable period that put him degree with Stephen Hendry.
Regardless of turning 48 final December, the Englishman stays the participant to beat at any time when any new occasion commences.
That was underlined at each the UK Championship and the Masters throughout this marketing campaign, the 2 different BBC majors that O’Sullivan duly conquered once more.
Nonetheless ranked because the world primary, he’s the outright betting favorite to emerge with the World Championship trophy once more in 2024.
However O’Sullivan hasn’t had all of it his personal manner in Sheffield up to now.
There have been a number of crushing defeats, significantly in instances when he has struggled to take care of the psychological fortitude that’s required to endure the complete 17 days on the Crucible.
O’Sullivan was crushed within the first spherical on his debut in 1993, an early demise that has been inflicted on him an additional thrice since.
The quarter-final mark has arguably been his most troublesome hurdle to beat, dropping eight instances at that stage together with in final yr’s occasion.
Who, then, have been the gamers to beat Ronnie O’Sullivan at a World Snooker Championship over the course of the final three many years?
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2024 World Snooker Championship Draw
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Spherical 1 (bo19)
Luca Brecel (1) 9-10 David Gilbert
Robert Milkins (16) 10-9 Pang Junxu
Ali Carter (9) 7-10 Stephen Maguire
Shaun Murphy (8) 10-5 Lyu Haotian
Mark Selby (5) 6-10 Joe O’Connor
Kyren Wilson (12) vs Dominic Dale
John Higgins (13) vs Jamie Jones
Mark Allen (4) vs Robbie Williams
Judd Trump (3) 10-5 Hossein Vafaei
Tom Ford (14) 10-6 Ricky Walden
Zhang Anda (11) 4-10 Jak Jones
Mark Williams (6) 9-10 Si Jiahui
Ding Junhui (7) vs Jack Lisowski
Gary Wilson (10) 5-10 Stuart Bingham
Barry Hawkins (15) vs Ryan Day
Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) vs Jackson Web page
Spherical 2 (bo25)
David Gilbert vs Robert Milkins (16)
Stephen Maguire vs Shaun Murphy (8)
Joe O’Connor vs Ok. Wilson/Dale
Higgins/Jamie Jones vs Allen/R. Williams
Judd Trump (3) vs Tom Ford (14)
Jak Jones vs Si Jiahui
Ding/Lisowski vs Stuart Bingham
Hawkins/Day vs O’Sullivan/Web page
Quarter-Finals (bo25)
Gilbert/Milkins vs Maguire/Murphy
TBC vs TBC
Trump/Ford vs Jak Jones/Si
TBC vs TBC
Semi-Finals (bo33)
TBC vs TBC
TBC vs TBC
Remaining (bo35)
TBC vs TBC
