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Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan crashed out of the World Snooker Championship at the quarter-final stage; Luca Brecel won seven consecutive frames on Wednesday to upset O’Sullivan and win 13-10
Last Updated: 26/04/23 4:39pm
Ronnie O’Sullivan plays Luca Brecel in the World Snooker Championship quarter-final
Luca Brecel handed Ronnie O’Sullivan a shock defeat in their quarter-final at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
O’Sullivan had held off Brecel to go into the concluding session with a 10-6 lead.
But that was as good as it got for O’Sullivan. The seven-time champion lost seven successive frames as Brecel overhauled him in extraordinary circumstances to win the match 13-10 and advance to the last four.
Defending champion O’Sullivan failed to make a single break over 30 as his Belgian opponent set up a semi-final date with either Anthony McGill or Si Jiahui.
“I didn’t put up any resistance but you’ve still got to pot the balls and he played unbelievable. I wasn’t playing well enough to have any impact on the game,” O’Sullivan told the BBC afterwards.
“If it was a boxing match they would have stopped it very early on. I was just pinching frames and hanging on.
“There’s only so much hanging on you can do at the Crucible. It catches up with you at some point, and someone will eventually put you away.”
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