Something I wrote about Ronnie OSullivan 7 years. He never ceases to amaze. The cue ball behaves for O’Sullivan like it does for no other player. His sense of pace, of how firmly to strike the cue ball, of how the cue ball will react based on the putting angle and where the tip of the cue strikes the ball is magical. O’Sullivan’s genius lies in the way the cue ball obeys his every whim, as if he had the white sphere under hypnotic control. He just looks, sites, and strokes. The grace of his stroke is confirmed by the sound the tip of the cue makes when it strikes the cue ball. The sound is distinctive and melodic, a sound no other player can produce, a crisp, ringing click, a musical note. You could close your eyes and hear the virtuoso performance as O’Sullivan makes the balls vanish from the surface of the table. Clive Everton likens it to a concert pianist who can play rhapsody and blues backwards. O’Sullivan is also ambidextrous, performing with equal facility playing left-handed or right-handed. Though sometimes producing disdain from opponents, he often alternates between right and left-handed play for no good reason, other than, one assumes, to minimize the disinterest that afflicts him when he knows he cannot miss.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:38:10 +0000
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