Ronnie OSullivan

Ronald Antonio "Ronnie" O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975 ) is an English [6] professional snooker player known for his rapid playing style, and is nicknamed "The Rocket". He is the reigning World Snooker Champion and has been World Champion on four occasions (2001, 2004,2008 and 2012) and, with career earnings of over 6 million is second, after Stephen [7] Hendry, on snooker's all-time prize-money list. He has been the world's no. 1 player on five occasions, and has won a total of 24 ranking titles. O'Sullivan's achievements also include four Masters and four UK Championship titles. He also won the Nations Cup with England in 2000. He is second, again behind Hendry, on the list of players [4] making the most competitive century breaks, with a total of 678. O'Sullivan has compiled [8] 11 maximum breaks in professional competition, a record which he shares with Hendry. He also holds the record for the fastest maximum break at 5 minutes 20 seconds, which he compiled at [9] the 1997 World Championship.
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1 Career

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1.1 Early career 1.2 After the first world title 1.3 2004/2005 1.4 2005/2006 1.5 2006/2007 1.6 2007/2008 1.7 2008/2009 1.8 2009/2010 1.9 2010/2011 1.10 2011/2012 1.11 2012/2013

2 Playing style 3 Status 4 Personal life 5 Performance and rankings timeline 6 Career finals

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6.1 Ranking event finals: 36 (24 titles, 11 runner-ups) 6.2 Minor-ranking event finals: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

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6.3 Non-ranking event finals: 34 (23 titles, 11 runner-ups) 6.4 Variant event finals: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) 6.5 Team event finals: 1 (1 title) 6.6 Amateur finals: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links

Career
Early career
O'Sullivan was born in Wordsley, West Midlands, and grew up, and still lives, in the exclusive Manor [10] [11] Road area in Chigwell, Essex, where he attended Wanstead High School. He began his snooker career at an early age, first achieving a century break at the age of 10 (making 117), winning his first [12] pro-am tournament at 12, scoring a maximum break at 15, and turning professional at 16. He won [9][13] his first 38 ranking matches as a professional a record that still stands on his way to the 1993 World Championship, where at the age of 17 years and 134 days he is the third youngest player to [14][15] [16] have ever qualified. He lost in the first round 710 to Alan McManus, and in the following [17] season was ranked 57. He became the youngest winner of a ranking tournament when, aged 17, [9] [18] he won the 1993 UK Championship, beating Stephen Hendry in the final. In 1995, he won his [19] first Masters title, by defeating John Higgins 93. In the 1996 World Championship, snooker's governing body found O'Sulliv
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