{"id":144402,"date":"2023-12-03T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=144402"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:14:54","slug":"party-pooper-ronnie-osullivan-revels-after-reaching-his-ninth-uk-championship-final-30-years-after-first-triple-crown-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/sport\/party-pooper-ronnie-osullivan-revels-after-reaching-his-ninth-uk-championship-final-30-years-after-first-triple-crown-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Party pooper Ronnie O'Sullivan revels after reaching his ninth UK Championship final 30 years after first triple crown | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
PROLIFIC Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan quipped that he gets satisfaction from \u201cspoiling the party\u201d and \u201cruining the CVs\u201d of his rivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rocket raced into a ninth UK Championship final \u2013 and a 62nd career ranking tournament final \u2013 with a 6-2 semi-final battering of Hossein Vafaei.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It his 30 years since he lifted this Triple Crown event, for the first time, in Preston aged 17 years old.<\/p>\n After progressing to today\u2019s finale in York \u2013 the winner gets \u00a3250,000 \u2013 O\u2019Sullivan, 47, sat in a BBC studio alongside Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis, two of the men he beat in that 1993 tournament.<\/p>\n The world No.1 then started to open up on one of the reasons why he has not yet packed away his cue.<\/p>\n Seven-time champion O\u2019Sullivan, who had a 113 break, joked: \u201cI\u2019m just hanging around so people don\u2019t get as good as a career as me.<\/p>\nREAD MORE ON SNOOKER<\/h2>\n