Ronnie O’Sullivan has lost her confidence. Aop
Snooker superstar, seven -time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan is in the face of a difficult situation.
The 49-year-old live legend is, in his own words, mentally exhausted. He has not even excluded the opportunity to withdraw from the World Cup on Tuesday.
– If I get a nervous breakdown, who knows? Maybe I even retreat from the race. Hopefully I won’t do it. I’m used to working in the pressure, but now I feel completely different. I feel like I have lost my confidence, O’Sullivan said at Friday’s media event in British magazine Daily Mail by.
O’Sullivan has not played in the tournament since January. The man said he was surprised that he had arrived at all.
The best player in history feels “empty”.
– I feel like I’m just an elderly person trying to hang out.
O’Sullivan does not believe in his own potential. He made his final decision to travel to the race venue until Wednesday he was practicing his friend Barry Hawkinswhich O’Sullivan struck in the 2013 World Cup final.
At participating in O’Sullivan meets the tournament opening game with his old friend Ali Carter.
Problems in the past
The superstar has openly talked about the difficulties he has experienced in his career.
Among other things, he has suffered depression and has been addicted to alcohol. He has said that he has lost his confidence and personality in the most difficult years.
In 1998, he was rejected in the Irish Masters tournament due to the use of cannabis.
Also another world star, John Higginsparticipation is uncertain. A four -time world champion dude died in a heart attack earlier in the week.