#Ronio snooker 147 professional

Despite these successes, his career also became marred by controversy in the later 1990s. He won his second UK title later that year at the 1997 UK Championship.

#Ronio snooker 147 professional

At the 1997 World Championship, he achieved his first maximum break in professional competition compiled in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, it remains the fastest competitive maximum break in snooker history. Д«etween 19, O'Sullivan reached three world semi-finals in four years.

He is the youngest Masters champion in history. The following season, he won the 1995 Masters aged 19 years and 69 days. He claimed his first ranking title later that year, winning the 1993 UK Championship seven days before his 18th birthday to become the youngest ever winner of a ranking tournament, a record he still holds. He qualified for the televised stages of the World Championship in his first professional season, making his Crucible debut on 18 April 1993, aged 17 years and 134 days. ДЄfter turning professional in 1992, aged 16, he won 74 of his first 76 qualifying matches, including a record 38 consecutive professional victories. In the same year, he won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship and Junior Pot Black. At the 1991 English Amateur Championship, aged 15 years and 98 days, he made his first competitive maximum break, then the youngest player ever to do so in a recognised tournament. O'Sullivan began playing snooker at age 7 and soon became a noted amateur competitor, winning his first club tournament at age 9, making his first competitive century break at age 10, and winning the British Under-16 Championship at age 13. O'Sullivan with the trophy of the 2012 German Masters Outside his playing career, he works as a pundit and presenter for Eurosport, has written crime novels, autobiographies, and a health and fitness book, and has starred in the miniseries Ronnie O'Sullivan's American Hustle. He has achieved the highest number of officially recognised maximum breaks in professional competition, with 15, as well as the fastest competitive maximum break, compiled in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds at the 1997 World Championship. In 2019 he became the first and only player to reach 1,000 career century breaks in professional competition, a record he has since extended to over 1,100 centuries. Noted for his break-building, O'Sullivan made his first competitive century break at age 10 and his first competitive maximum break at age 15. Now noted for his longevity in the sport, he has competed in a record 29 consecutive World Championships between 19, and is the second-oldest player, after Ray Reardon, to win a world title in snooker's modern era. He is also the youngest player to win the Masters, which he first achieved in 1995, aged 19 years and 69 days. He won his first ranking title at the 1993 UK Championship aged 17 years and 358 days, making him the youngest player to win a professional ranking event, a record he still holds.

He has won career prize money of over ВЈ12 million, and has been ranked world number one on multiple occasions.ДЄfter an impressive junior career, O'Sullivan turned professional in 1992, aged 16. He also holds the record for the most ranking titles in the sport, with 37. As a six-time world champion, a record seven-time Masters champion, and a record seven-time UK champion, he has won a record 20 Triple Crown titles, surpassing Stephen Hendry's previous record of 18. Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan OBE (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player who is widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished players in the history of the sport.