{"id":442463,"date":"2026-05-11T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:33:08","slug":"osullivan-sees-off-perry-to-clinch-senior-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442463\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Sullivan sees off Perry to clinch Senior World title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time world champion Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan added a first World Seniors Snooker Championship title to his trophy haul with a convincing 10-4 victory over Joe Perry.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan never looked back after breaks of 110, 131 and 113 saw him go 3-1 up at the mid-session interval before an 81 put him three frames ahead at the Crucible.<\/p>\n<p>Perry won the next two frames but missed the chance to level things up after fluffing two simple pots as O\u2019Sullivan took a 5-3 lead into the evening session.<\/p>\n<p>The deficit was reduced on the resumption with the aid of a 51 break but it was the last frame Perry would win as O\u2019Sullivan closed out victory in clinical style, which included a 129-clearance before his fifth century of the match provided a fitting end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time world champion Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan added a first World Seniors Snooker Championship title to his trophy haul with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-442463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}