Seven-time winner Ronnie O’Sullivan will give himself “as a lot time as doable” to determine whether or not to compete on the World Snooker Championship.
The Englishman, 49, has been an ever-present on the Crucible since turning skilled in 1992 and can be going for a file eighth world title within the trendy period.
Nevertheless, he has not performed on the World Snooker Tour (WST) since January, when he withdrew from his Championship League group – and was so pissed off along with his sport that he snapped his cue after dropping 4 of his 5 matches.
O’Sullivan subsequently pulled out of the Masters at Alexandra Palace on medical grounds, missed the German Masters in Berlin and apologised to followers after electing to not play on the Welsh Open.
He additionally withdrew from the World Grand Prix in Hong Kong in March, growing hypothesis he could not return to motion in Sheffield, the place he is likely one of the seeds.
“I do not know but. I have not made my thoughts up, I will most likely decide on perhaps 17 or 18 April,” O’Sullivan mentioned on TNT Sports activities.
“I do not know once I’m on account of play my first match, so I’ll attempt to go away myself as a lot time as doable.
“I might love to have the ability to go there and play. I might love to have the ability to have the arrogance to have the ability to get my cue out and go and play snooker.
“I simply want to provide myself as a lot time as doable to see the place I am at with it, and see whether or not it is one thing I am going to have the ability to do.”
The World Championship, which is considered the game’s hardest check, begins on 19 April and runs for 17 days till 5 Might.
Qualification for the occasion ends on 16 April and if ‘The Rocket’ have been to withdraw on the eve of the event, it will imply a qualifier receiving a bye to the second spherical.
