Seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has been knocked out of the Shanghai Masters in the second round by Kyren Wilson.<\/p>\n
Defending Shanghai champion Wilson produced breaks of 113 and 91 on the way to a 3-1 lead against the 50-year-old.<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan knocked in three centuries in a row with breaks of 100, 111 and 131 to move 4-3 up in an entertaining match.<\/p>\n
However, Wilson responded with runs of 89, 79 and 97 to clinch three frames in a row for a 6-4 victory which sets up a quarter-final against Mark Williams, who beat Chris Wakelin 6-5.<\/p>\n
“It is always great playing in Shanghai and somebody of the class of Ronnie O’Sullivan,” said 2024 world champion Wilson. <\/p>\n
“You know the crowd are going to come out in their numbers when he is playing. It inspires me and makes me want to play snooker. <\/p>\n
“I have my kids with me and I wanted to show them how amazing snooker is out here. I hope they enjoyed that one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has been knocked out of the Shanghai Masters in the second round by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-548485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}