{"id":298343,"date":"2023-12-04T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=298343"},"modified":"2023-12-04T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:39:16","slug":"ronnie-osullivans-short-message-says-it-all-after-winning-uk-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/nba\/ronnie-osullivans-short-message-says-it-all-after-winning-uk-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan’s short message says it all after winning UK Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ronnie O’Sullivan has summed up his UK Championship success with a short and simple message. The Rocket won a record eighth triumph in York on Sunday, 30 years after he won the tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n

O’Sullivan beat Ding Junhui 10-7 just two days before he turns 48. He has become the oldest winner of the tournament and also holds the accolade of the youngest winner from his triumph as a 17-year-old back in 1993.<\/p>\n

He upset the odds to beat Stephen Hendry on that occasion to start one of the sport’s greatest rivalries. Thirty years on, O’Sullivan is still winning competitions despite his much-publicised struggles away from the table.<\/p>\n

And a message he put on X late on Sunday evening said it all. O’Sullivan posted a picture of him lifting the UK Championship trophy from 1993 and another of him from this year’s tournament.<\/p>\n

He simply captioned the images: “How it started. How it’s going.” O’Sullivan also paid tribute to Ding for giving him a tough encounter.<\/p>\n

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He wrote in another post: “Number 8! Firstly I want to congratulate and thank Ding. He\u2019s an incredible player and an even better person.<\/p>\n

“Secondly, I want to thank the support I\u2019ve had all this week. You guys have been brilliant and I\u2019m glad I could get the win for you.”<\/p>\n

O’Sullivan beat Zhou Yuelong in the quarter-finals and old rival Hossein Vafaei in the semis to set up Sunday’s final. He and Ding put on a show for the crowd at the Barbican Centre but O’Sullivan ultimately proved too strong.<\/p>\n

The world No 1 is still loving the winning feeling, saying afterwards: “Each tournament I win, I get great pleasure out of. Tonight I just had to come out tonight and have a good head.<\/p>\n