Ronnie O’Sullivan wins World Snooker Player of the Year Award – Snooker News
After a superb performance in the 2011-12 Snooker Season, the 2012 World Snooker Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has clinched the World Snooker Player of the Year Award. The award ceremony was held at the Dorchester Hotel where all top dogs of snooker were present.
The Englishman played outstandingly in the whole season and clinched a couple of major ranking snooker events including the 2012 World Snooker Championship after beating the Captain, Ali Carter in the final by the score line of 18-11 at the Crucible Theatre
in Sheffield.
The Rocket started his season run with a splendid victory in the 2011-12 Players Tour Championship (PTC) Event 1. He played brilliantly in the event and made his way successfully into the final encounter against compatriot Joe Perry. The final clash was
a piece of cake for the Essex Exocet and he cruised into a tremendous victory by the score line of 4-0 in the final.
A superb start of the season gave boost to O’Sullivan’s form and he continued playing brilliantly in the upcoming snooker events. He fired a maximum 147 break in the PTC 4 against Adam Duffy but was not able to win the event despite reaching the semi-final
stage where he lost to Mark Selby by 3-4. However, his second success in the season was the Premier League Snooker (PLS) where he defeated Ali Carter by the score line of 3-1.
Following the PLS win, he earned another classy triumph in the PTC 7 where he cleared the table against Matthew Stevens by the score line of 4-2. The 36-year-old O’Sullivan made his way into the final encounter of the PLS 10 where he played against his arch
rival Shaun Murphy and ousted him by the score of 3-1.
Moving on, the four-time World Snooker Championship winner had a tremendous run in the PLS Finals and hit the final encounter. He went head-to-head with the Chinese potter Ding Junhui and easily trashed him by 7-1.
The second half of the 2011-12 Snooker Season also brought a superb victory for him as he won the 2012 German Masters snooker event title beating Scotland’s Stephen Maguire by 9-7. The Wordsley potter finished his season run in style when he added fourth
World Snooker Championship title beating Ali Carter by 18-11.
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