Ronnie O’Sullivan knocked out of Champion of Champions by Xiao Guodong
O’Sullivan, Forty eight, a four-time winner of the match, had taken a 3-0 lead in the wonderful-of-seven-frames match, most productive to lose 4-3 after a improbable comeback from Xiao.
Breaks of 95 and 125 in frames two and three respectively had seven-time world champion O’Sullivan heading in the correct path to realize Thursday’s quarter-final at the Toughsheet Neighborhood Stadium.
Nonetheless Xiao produced breaks of 130, 88 and 85 sooner than worthwhile the final frame 64-35.
He’s going to face the winner of the final-16 match between Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy in the quarter-finals.
It is O’Sullivan’s 2nd consecutive defeat. Glorious week, he turn out to be knocked out of the 2024 Global Championship by Pang Junxu, also from China, at the final-32 stage.