Australia’s Neil Robertson satisfied with his performance in 2011-12 Snooker Season
Former World Snooker Champion from Australia, Neil Robertson had a superb snooker season but his 2012 World Snooker Championship run did not finish according to his expectations and he crashed out of the mega event at the hands of the eventual champion Ronnie
O’Sullivan. However, the Australian cueman believes that his season campaign is quite satisfactory.
While speaking to BBC, Robertson said, “Unfortunately I came up against Ronnie O'Sullivan at his best in the World Championship, but I was very pleased with the way I played. Overall, I am absolutely delighted with my season.”
His 2012 World Snooker Championship campaign started impressively when he clinched his first round win against former World Snooker Champion, Ireland’s Ken Doherty. Nevertheless, he slipped down against Ronnie O’Sullivan in the second round of the mega event
which was indeed disappointing for the 2010 World Champion.
He spoke about his match against O’Sullivan, “He went 9-5 up after I was leading 5-3, but I pulled it back really well to 12-10 and I was unlucky not to go to 12-11 - so it came down to small details. Every sport sort of needs your Ronnie O'Sullivans, your
Judd Trumps or Steve Davis's and it would be a real shame if he were to retire and only focus on the bigger tournaments.”
The Thunder from Down under began his season run with the Players Tour Championship (PTC) but was unable to make an appearance. Even in the first major ranking event in Australia, the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, he failed to perform up to the expectations
of Aussie snooker fans, despite the fact that he was being considered one of the top contenders to clinch the title.
However, he sprang back tremendously with two European Players Tour Championship (Euro PTC) wins in the first half of the season. He tumbled down during the season but the Victorian potter did not lose his focus and maintained his game which finally paid
him back when he took the 2012 Masters snooker event title.
The 30-year-old Melbourne Machine is now hoping for a pretty decent start in the next snooker season and is still aiming to hit his second world title soon enough.
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