Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan vowed to follow the money next season following his World Snooker Championship defeat to John Higgins.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan gave his searing assessment in response to the brutal cancellation of the lucrative Saudi Arabia Masters, worth a staggering \u00a32.3 million, just two years into a 10-year deal.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cAny tournament I go to, they all know they have to get the cheque book out, so where ever I go that\u2019s standard. If that stops then I stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cWherever it is, Saudi, Qatar, China, here, whatever it is, I always make sure I\u2019ve got some sort of fee coming because otherwise people know that I won\u2019t turn up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pressed on whether his Academy in Riyadh would be affected, O\u2019Sullivan added: \u201cI have other options, so I\u2019m not really worried.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully Saudi still want to do some stuff, but we\u2019ll have to wait and see, then I\u2019ll make my decisions based on whatever happens there.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan has been selective with events in the past couple of years and that is set to continue into next season.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt depends, if my sponsors are on board, then I\u2019ll play, but I\u2019m not two-feet in like pretty much most of the guys. I\u2019m just grateful to be playing, and enjoying my playing and that\u2019s it. And if I don\u2019t enjoy it, I\u2019ll take time out. We\u2019ll see. It\u2019s too hard to start speculating about next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just enjoying myself I\u2019m having good fun, I\u2019m just enjoying life and whatever I\u2019m doing, so win, lose, draw, there\u2019s always a safety net below. I\u2019m not two feet in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try my nuts off when I\u2019m out there, but I also appreciate that I\u2019m not a slave to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan vowed to follow the money next season following his World Snooker Championship defeat to John Higgins.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[191194,59,94242,65157,172375,101,56,54,55,186641],"class_list":["post-556600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barry-hawkins","tag-gb","tag-mark-allen","tag-ronnie-osullivan","tag-shaun-murphy","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-snooker-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556600","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=556600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}