{"id":487657,"date":"2026-03-21T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:10:11","slug":"world-open-ronnie-osullivan-beats-wu-yize-in-decider-to-reach-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487657\/","title":{"rendered":"World Open: Ronnie O’Sullivan beats Wu Yize in decider to reach final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronnie O’Sullivan won a tense deciding frame against China’s Wu Yize at the World Open in Yushan to reach a first ranking final in more than two years. <\/p>\n

It came the day after he produced the sport’s highest-ever professional break of 153<\/a> in his 5-0 quarter-final victory over Welshman Ryan Day. <\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion was never behind against Wu but struggled to break clear of the world number 11 before finally completing a 6-5 victory. <\/p>\n

Wu had the first chance in the decider, opening a decent lead with a break of 43, but 50-year-old O’Sullivan punished a poor safety shot by sinking a long red then held his nerve with a clearance of 89.<\/p>\n

The Englishman is into his 66th final in a ranking event – but his first since beating Judd Trump to win the World Grand Prix in January 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan won a tense deciding frame against China’s Wu Yize at the World Open in Yushan to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-487657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}