Ronnie O Sullivan - Ali Carter - final

[FOXMULDER]

Congratulations to The Rocket!

Snooker's true genius.

[Ronnie's tip]

Congratulations to O´Sullivan, a deserved winner of the title. 6 months off will mean that he´s back again around the UK championship.

Hopefully he'll take a bit less of and appear in the odd tournament atleast because otherwise he'd probably drop out of the top 16 I'd imagine.

[breakman16]

Well played Ronnie, comiserations Ali Carter, Ronnie just too strong, justice, the best player in the world wins the world championship, very happy!! If he can keep his focus up next season then he could win a few tournaments!

[Ronnie's tip]

second that he was superlative, incidently did they do shot of the championship anyone know ?

I'm sure they will. For me it has to be Stevens' long red against Ronnie where the red was tight on the side cushion and the white on the top cushion. Stevens smashed it in and Virgo went "OH!".

[Masterdoctorgenius]

ronnie hasnt to be bothered about his ranking

he is qualified for every tournament he enters as a WC

so no PL with ronnie. Unthinkable

[FOXMULDER]

He won't be taking 6 months off. He always says things like this and then doesn't do it...

I'm sure he'll be playing in the first major ranking event of 2012-13.

[cebs]

Well played Ronnie, the final was never really in doubt imo and even more so once we saw Ali's game plan which had Edbon wrote all over it and it's not like it worked that well for him.

I think Ronnie played his most solid B game for years and we saw some of his A game when he was in the zone which happened a few time in the final. It was the first year for ages he wasn't favourite before the start and because of that and the rankings I think the pressure was of him for a bit.

Even if he drops down the rankings but doesn't retire he will qualify automatically for next years WC as the first seed is always the current champ. I hope he picks the events he wants and keeps going for a while longer.

If not thanks for all the good matches, just need to play Selby while in this form and show him his true ranking.

[lennon11]

how many could he win if his mental approach continues to improve and picking and choosing tournaments helps invigour his desire to play.

[Ronnie's tip]

ronnie hasnt to be bothered about his ranking

he is qualified for every tournament he enters as a WC

so no PL with ronnie. Unthinkable

He enjoys playing in that, so I'm sure he will.

[Masterdoctorgenius]

Hopefully he'll take a bit less of and appear in the odd tournament atleast because otherwise he'd probably drop out of the top 16 I'd imagine.

doesnt matter, as a WC he is seeded for every tournament

[Ronnie's tip]

I would have thought the BBC would milk it a bit more by showing highlights, thoughts from other ex players ect.

Shame it's already over.

[Ronnie's tip]

doesnt matter, as a WC he is seeded for every tournament

Ah right, so if he does drop out of the top 16, the guy placed 16th won't be a seed?

[LittleMissAlexa]

world rankings


1 Mark Selby 74925
2 Judd Trump 68975
3 Mark Williams 63560
4 Stephen Maguire 61400
5 John Higgins 61320
6 Shaun Murphy 59685
7 Neil Robertson 59540
8 Stephen Lee 56550
9 Ronnie O'Sullivan 53060
10 Matthew Stevens 52760
11 Ding Junhui 52340
12 Mark Allen 50065
13 Graeme Dott 49445
14 Martin Gould 47290
15 Ricky Walden 46945
16 Stuart Bingham 46600
17 Ali Carter 46220
18 Andrew Higginson 43170
19 Mark Davis 41490
20 Peter Ebdon 40645
21 Stephen Hendry 40035
22 Barry Hawkins 39940
23 Dominic Dale 39855
24 Joe Perry 38670
25 Marcus Campbell 38395
26 Tom Ford 37080
27 Jamie Cope 37080
28 Marco Fu 36825
29 Jamie Jones 34945
30 Ryan Day 34930
31 Mark King 33550
32 Anthony Hamilton 32970
33 Michael Holt 32480
34 Fergal O'Brien 32275
35 Ken Doherty 32145
36 Robert Milkins 31245
37 Liang Wenbo 29990
38 Rory McLeod 29965
39 Jamie Burnett 29110
40 Jack Lisowski 28870
41 Xiao Guodong 28455
42 Gerard Greene 28210
43 Ben Woollaston 27775
44 Matthew Selt 27770
45 Nigel Bond 26875
46 Jimmy White 26455
47 Joe Jogia 26405
48 Dave Harold 25955
49 Mike Dunn 25450
50 Anthony McGill 25420
51 Steve Davis 25225
52 Alan McManus 24695
53 Peter Lines 24510
54 Michael White 24495
55 Jimmy Robertson 24275
56 Liu Chuang 24110
57 David Gilbert 23420
58 Yu Delu 23015
59 Mark Joyce 22810
60 Alfie Burden 22760
61 Andy Hicks 21815
62 Adam Duffy 20865
63 James Wattana 20610
64 Barry Pinches 20495
65 Tony Drago 20475
66 Liam Highfield 20470
67 Liu Song 20390
68 Li Yan 20215
69 Joe Swail 19660
70 Adrian Gunnell 19600
71 Cao Yupeng 19430
72 Ian McCulloch 19325
73 David Morris 18835
74 Kurt Maflin 18450
75 Rod Lawler 18435
76 Sam Craigie 18285
77 Passakorn Suwannawat 18110
78 Andrew Norman 18000
79 Sam Baird 17580
80 David Grace 17565
81 Tian Pengfei 17280
82 Luca Brecel 17110
83 Aditya Mehta 16730
84 Andrew Pagett 15770
85 Adam Wicheard 15715
86 Paul Davison 15245
87 Dechawat Poomjaeng 15150
88 Matthew Couch 14055
89 Simon Bedford 12970
90 Scott MacKenzie 12440
91 Daniel Wells 11960
92 Stuart Carrington 11545
93 David Hogan 11160
94 Robin Hull 10925
95 Bjorn Haneveer 10905
96 Lucky Vatnani 10830
97 Kacper Filipiak 10130
98 Igor Figueiredo 10125
99 Joe Meara 9450

[montoya10]

5 out of the Top 10 is at least 35-years old. Wow, so, age matters, eh?

[PatBlock]

Did they not do shot of the tournament? (In fact, have they done it at all in the last 5 years? I must be getting old...)

No, the BBC threw their dummy out of the pram when they got caught out rigging a blue peter (fairly sure it was blue peter) competition a few years back, ever since then they've rarely done anything of that sort.

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