Welcome to dwell protection of the snooker World Championship from The Telegraph as Ronnie O’Sullivan takes on John Higgins within the second spherical.
The pair meet within the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield as they meet for the primary time in over two years.
The match-up noticed O’Sullivan a 4-0 winner towards the Scottish former world No. 1 on the World Masters, however this best-of-25 just isn’t so more likely to be as one-sided.
Both are actually veterans of the game, amongst a handful of gamers who’ve received every of the Triple Crown occasions.
At 50, O’Sullivan is again in competition for his eighth world championship. With seven underneath his belt in his profession to date, he presently shares the document of seven with former foe Stephen Hendry, although the pair now have a far hotter relationship.
Higgins and O’Sullivan have a aggressive rivalry going again to October 1994, when Higgins secured his personal whitewash, a 5-0 win on the Grand Prix.
O’Sullivan has been lacking from a number of excessive profile fixtures over the past season, preferring to deal with occasions in Saudi Arabia and China. His appearances in Britain have been restricted partly because of what he says is a declining curiosity within the sport, and in addition because of his new life in Dubai.
His final rating title got here in 2024 on the World Grand Prix, however earlier this month he defeated Higgins 6-0 on the John Virgo Trophy, an invitational occasion held in Ireland.
His opponent, in the meantime, received the World Open and Tour Championship final 12 months, and was a overwhelmed finalist on this 12 months’s Masters when he misplaced 10-6 to Kyren Wilson.
For the victor, a match towards the winner of Chris Wakelin vs Neil Robertson awaits within the quarter-finals.
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