Ronnie O’Sullivan downs Judd Trump to win record-equalling seventh World Snooker Championship

Ronnie O’Sullivan has equalled Stephen Hendry’s file of seven World Snooker Championship titles, due to an 18-13 win over Judd Trump on the Crucible.

The Rocket has been thought-about by many to be the best participant of all time for some years already and now he has a share of the World Championship file, that debate seems to be over.

The 46-year-old turns into the oldest ever winner of the game’s biggest occasion, beating the file set by Ray Reardon in 1978 when he was 45.

O’Sullivan got here into the match as world primary and stays on the high of the rankings due to the £500,000 high prize he trousers in Sheffield.

It's an unimaginable file that the Rocket holds in Crucible finals, profitable seven of the eight he has appeared in, solely being crushed by Mark Selby in 2014.

O’Sullivan had nice help within the Crucible, as all the time (Image: Getty Photographs)

A lot of the work for the Rocket was carried out on Sunday night when he solid a commanding lead within the second session of the match.

After ending Sunday afternoon 5-3 forward, O’Sullivan claimed seven of the following 9 frames to take a 12-5 lead, making a century and 6 half-centuries as he prospered and Trump struggled.

The day was solely soured for O’Sullivan as he acquired a warning from referee Olivier Marteel for making a lewd gesture, which led to an unsightly dialogue between participant and official.

Judd Trump battled valiantly on Monday, however in the end in useless Getty Photographs)

Trump deserves plenty of credit score for a way he responded on Monday afternoon, although, recovering from the dire place due to profitable the third session 6-2 and retaining the sport very a lot alive, with two centuries alongside the way in which.

With O’Sullivan 14-11 forward it seemed set to be a tense ultimate session, however the Rocket received the primary two frames in fairly brief order with breaks of 82 and 88.

On the ultimate of 17 days of motion the 2 main males weren't flagging as the standard remained immense. Trump hit again with a break of 64, however the Rocket responded once more with a 75 to enter the mid-session interval 17-12 up.

Trump made a break of 109 within the thirtieth body of the day, retaining the sport alive and surpassing the earlier file of variety of centuries within the World Championship, oddly sufficient, setting the brand new file at 109.

That was the final little bit of Pleasure for the Ace at this yr’s World Championship, although, as O’Sullivan fought exhausting to create an opportunity for himself within the subsequent and made probably the most of it with a break of 85 to win body, match and the title.

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