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Even the most loyal O’Sullivan fan can’t say he’s had as many as 5 great sessions this whole tournament but when you’re winning the world championship it doesn’t matter how you’ve played. What he’s done this tournament is a far cry from his other 5 but more human form of snooker.
He’s won his other 5 titles obliterating the whole field. Here he’s done what much lesser players have done to win a world title. Mopped up good steals, won a lot of key frames at the start and end of sessions and rode his luck combined with flashes of his own unique genius.
What he’s done this year is actually an incredibly normal way to win it. He isn’t normal though so it’s hard to comprehend the idea he’s won it without playing like the best ever as he’s done before, but he hasn’t. He’s just found a way and it’s quite impressive.
He should have been beaten by Selby and probably by Williams but again that’s normal for a world champion. Hendry, Williams, Ebdon, Robertson, Higgins and Trump all world champions that should have lost at some point when they won it but had luck or opponents faltered.
Has same kind of feeling to Tiger winning the Masters last year. Best to have ever played winning biggest prize in the sport but not in the way we’d become used to. More relying on doing the right thing at the right time and trusting to variables more than he’s had to before.
