Betway UK Championship (2016)". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016 . Retrieved 5 December 2016. O'Sullivan made his first competitive century break at age 10 and his first competitive maximum break at age 15. He is the only player to have achieved 1,000 century breaks in professional competition, a milestone he reached in 2019 and which he has since extended to over 1,200 centuries. He has made the highest number of officially recognised maximum breaks in professional competition, with 15, and holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest competitive maximum break, compiled in a time of 5minutes and 8seconds at the 1997 World Championship. At the 2020 World Championship, he came from 14–16 behind in his semi-final against Selby to win 17–16; he then defeated Kyren Wilson 18–8 in the final to win his sixth world title. The tournament also marked his 28th consecutive Crucible appearance, surpassing the 27 consecutive appearances made by Hendry. [9] At the 2021 Tour Championship, he reached 1,100 century breaks in professional competition, [35] and also reached his 58th ranking final, breaking Hendry's record of 57 ranking final appearances. [36] O'Sullivan lost five consecutive ranking finals in the 2020–21 season, but he ended a 16-month title drought by winning his 38th ranking title at the 2021 World Grand Prix. [37]

In turn, the seven-time world champion has seen his spot in the competition taken by amateur Steven Hallworth. O'Sullivan's withdrawal also means that 28-year-old Luca Brecel now has a real chance to make the world number one spot his own for the first time.Ronnie O'Sullivan Sr freed after 18 years in prison". BBC Sport. 19 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014 . Retrieved 20 January 2014.

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The following tropes from the second draft of the script:

Maybe you get to a point where you take it for granted and I don’t want to, but it is hard when you have been doing it for as long as I have been. You do change over the years but I’m very mindful of how good it’s been to me.

O'Sullivan uses snooker not the other way around". TheGuardian.com. 17 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017 . Retrieved 2 March 2017. thrills me to my soul. It's just a completely perfect mood and story and characters. I like pretty nearly Coral UK Championship (2014)". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014 . Retrieved 7 December 2014. Meanwhile, across the city, is this guy named “Detective.” Actually, I don’t know what his name is, but that’s what he’s called. Detective. Detective is getting frustrated because this city they’re living in appears to be getting darker and darker every day. He wants to find out what that’s all about, so he starts heading for the center of the city. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to get to the center of the city. All the trains going there close down three or four stops beforehand. So Detective must enlist the help of a punchy old man, Terry, to navigate his way to the center. Lynch was in the process of writing the sequel script to Dune, but the box office failure of the first film killed the project. From the Inner Views Lynch interview, "...I was really getting into DuneTurner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012 . Retrieved 11 April 2011. However, due to the production companies of both Dino De Laurentiis and Francis Ford Coppola going into bankruptcy, the script went into limbo, and this compounded with the planned industrial shooting locations becoming increasingly modernized past Lynch’s vision means this is one movie unlikely to be rescued from Development Hell, but who can say for sure? O’Sullivan was not always at his blistering best, with Higgins, Selby and Brecel all likely to be at least slightly frustrated that they didn’t grasp opportunities to beat him. However, his immense quality meant that just flashes of his peak stuff was enough to get his hands on the trophy again.