{"id":262855,"date":"2026-01-29T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/262855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:04:10","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-beaten-by-ali-carter-at-german-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/262855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan beaten by Ali Carter at German Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan suffered a 5-3 defeat to Ali Carter as he was knocked out of the  German Masters at the second round stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carter hit a 128 break in the first frame and went 3-0 up before the seven-time world champion produced a 93 break on the way to levelling at 3-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Carter &#8211; a two-time German Masters winner &#8211; claimed the next two frames to secure his spot in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/67988328\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The pair have had their run-ins in the past<\/a> but Carter played down their rivalry after beating O&#8217;Sullivan for only the second time in 22 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve known each other a long time,&#8221; said Carter. &#8220;He&#8217;s a character isn&#8217;t he? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are fine now, there is no animosity at all. It is all heat of the moment stuff between two sportsmen and he is the best snooker player of all-time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is great to be on the table with him and competing. Getting the odd win over him is a feather in my cap.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan suffered a 5-3 defeat to Ali Carter as he was knocked out of the German Masters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-262855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}