What's Ronnie O`Sullivan's greatest career rivalry?
25 years on tour has made Ronnie O`Sullivan one of the most successful Snooker players there's ever been, and the Englishman remains being the game's biggest star. During this time, "The Rocket" has been involved in some great rivalries with other great players.
Steve Davis had Alex Higgins and Stephen Hendry had Jimmy White, but many people might not have it clear who has been the one who stood in front of Ronnie. It's not for lack of options, so shall we discuss here who was his greatest rival for good.
Firstly we've got to know that to make a big rivalry for Ronnie O`Sullivan you do not need only grudge or having played big matches against him, you need both.
We have for example, Alain Robidoux. He was a great rival of Ronnie in the 90's, and they met in each Triple Crown event. The peak of their grudge came at the Crucible when O`Sullivan beat Robidoux left-handed and was accused of disrespect before proving he could play with either hands and receive his apology. However, it can't be Ronnie's greatest rivalry mainly because all their 8 meetings - which happened in an interval of seven years - were all won by Ronnie.
Names like Mark Williams and Neil Robertson can't go without a mention too. They've been around for a long time of Ronnie's career and contested some great matches against O`Sullivan (one of them very recently, as Robertson beat Ronnie 6-3 in the Final of the inaugural Hong Kong Masters). However most of their big matches were big because of their quality and not because they are rivals off-table. It also makes a difference that players with so many Triple Crown final appearances never met each other in one.
As we reach another level of rivalry, we must talk about Paul Hunter. I did not follow Snooker back then before he prematurely left us, but I've seen and heard enough of him to say he was one of the rare players good enough to beat Ronnie playing their own game. Hunter and O`Sullivan met 13 times, 7 wins for Ronnie and 6 wins for Hunter - who won their biggest match at The Masters final in 2004, coming from 2-7 and 7-9 behind to win 10-9.
They've always respected each other off the table and that's not a bad thing, but you will still read here about players who played even more big matches against Ronnie on the table but had no lost love off it.
So now we talk about Shaun Murphy. Two players that clearly don't like each other and have had their say about their rival - Ronnie saying Murphy has no class and Murphy saying Ronnie talks stuff just to put himself on the headlines.
Murphy's been around for the the last 12 years and despite he only won 3 of the 13 meetings he had with Ronnie, one of them was a remarkable 7-3 in the Final of the Premier League 2009, a tournament Ronnie was trying to win for the sixth consecutive time. Revenge came the year next when O`Sullivan retained his title with a 7-1 win over Murphy.
They've got everything a big rivalry needs, except a Triple Crown event Final standing out. And that's where we find Stephen Hendry and Judd Trump.
From the 90's everyone will remember O`Sullivan's win when a teenager v Stephen Hendry in the 1993 UK Championship final, a feat he achieved again four years later. But no one will forget that final O`Sullivan got back from 2(17)8 down to force a decider and see his opponent hit a 147 either.
Then in the noughties fans will remember O`Sullivan's convinving wins v Hendry in the semi-finals of the World Championship in 2004 and 2008, both with a session to spare. Yet Ronnie walking away at 1(17)4 against Hendry in the 2006 UK Championship quarter-final is not just a mark on this rivalry, but a big dark shadow on O`Sullivan's controversial career. O`Sullivan and Hendry played each other on tour 56 times.
As for Judd Trump, he came along in recent years but already earned his place in the history of the player who once was his idol. Their first real huge match was in the semi-final of the 2013 World Championship.
Having beaten Ronnie in 6 of their 11 previous meetings, including in a PTC Final and when they met at The Masters and at the UK Championship, Trump came to that semi-final saying his game was equal to Ronnie's and that he fancied winning it, while Ronnie said that was going to be his last time at the Crucible and he was going to do his best to give himself two extra days there by reaching the Final. In the end O`Sullivan won 17-11 and went on to win his fifth World Title as we know.
Ever since all their meetings have been epic. Their very first match after that Crucible clash was in the Final of the 2014 Champion of Champions, which turned out to be the best best of 19 frames match I've seen in terms of high scoring and quality snooker. Ronnie won 10-7 in a match that had 17 breaks over 50, including four Centuries, two 80's and three 70's from Ronnie, and two Centuries and a 90 from Trump. The month after that they played their big match: the UK Championship Final.
They had just contested a tremendous Final but they did not disappoint at the Barbican either. Not as good technically (the match had "only" 12 breaks over 50 in 19 frames, with a Century from Ronnie and two from Trump), it turned out to be one of the greatest UK Championship classics as Trump came from 4-9 down to force a decider - won by Ronnie in pure class.
Trump had his revenge, coming back from 1-2 to beat Ronnie 3-2 in the Final of the 2016 Championship League and then coming back from 6-8 down to beat Ronnie 9-8 in the 2016 European Masters Final.
O`Sullivan though, balanced things again beating Trump 6-5 very recently in the semi-final of the Hong Kong Masters after being 4-5 down and needing snookers in the decider.
There's no doubt Hendry and Trump were great rivals of Ronnie, but you can't class either of them as his greatest rival because they've never been at the same level.
When Ronnie met Hendry in the 90's, he could win a few matches and upset the odds but he was never quite in the same standard of the Scot - something that reversed in the noughties. As for Trump the same thing applies. He might've met Ronnie at his peak and built a very good head-to-head against him, but overall Trump has never been in the same league of Ronnie.
Very few players are left as we get close to decide who was The Rocket's greatest rival. At first we've got to knock Ali Carter and Barry Hawkins out. Carter met Ronnie at the Crucible a few times, including in two Finals, as Hawkins met Ronnie both at the Masters and the World Championship Final, and even became part of the elite group of players to have defeated O`Sullivan at the Crucible in 2016. But Ronnie's head-to-head against them makes it impossible to argue. Carter has never beaten Ronnie, and even though Hawkins has done so and made a real good fight for the World Title v Ronnie in 2013, he's always been inferior and the 1-10 defeat at the 2016 Masters final is the best match to example their head-to-head.
So now only John Higgins and Mark Selby are left. Which was the biggest rivalry? Which will have a bigger mark on The Rocket's career once it's over?
John Higgins became professional the same year as Ronnie O`Sullivan, and their very first meeting was in 1994 at the "Dubai Classic", a best of 9 for a place in the semi-finals, which Ronnie got with a 5-1 win.
Overall, O`Sullivan won 31 and lost 27 of his matches v Higgins, and they also drew 3 times in their 61 encounters. In finals only, they played incredible 17 times, 10 wins for Ronnie and 7 for John. Four of them were in Triple Crown events: the first three went the way of Ronnie, 9-3 in the 1995 Masters, 18-14 in the 2001 World Championship and 10-3 in the 2005 Masters. However, a 10-9 win for John Higgins in the Final of the 2006 Masters was not just one of the biggest moments in sporting history, but also the start of a time when Higgins became O`Sullivan's nightmare.
To this day, since O`Sullivan's defeat the the 2006 Masters (which had followed a comprehensive 9-2 win for Higgins in the 2005 Grand Prix final), O`Sullivan have only beaten Higgins in ranking events twice, and amongst his defeats are the 2009 UK Championship semi-final (another match that O`Sullivan came from 2-8 down just to lose the decider), the 2010 Welsh Open semi-final, the 2011 World Championship quarter-final and the 2016 Champion of Champions final. It's fair to say though that O`Sullivan got one back as their latest meeting - at the recent Hong Kong Masters - was won 5-4 by O`Sullivan after the Scot had led 4-2.
The big mark of this 20 odd years-old rivalry is that in one hand we've got Ronnie: flair, fast and unpredictable. And in the other hand we have Higgins: orthodox, clever and consistent.
Two of the biggest serial winners Snooker has ever seen, the two biggest World Champions on tour and 11 World Finals between them (counting the one they played each other only once), and yet off-table Ronnie O`Sullivan and John Higgins have never been rivals. They've always respected each other a lot, with each regarding the other as the best.
By that I can say O`Sullivan's greatest career rival has been Mark Selby. Not only they had the grudge off the table, they also peaked together and played each other in the Final of all three Triple Crown events. Selby's stunning record against O`Sullivan, the painful defeats that the Rocket's fans had to endure - giving the wins a better taste -, and how different they are on the table makes the classics with Selby the ones that will truly mark O`Sullivan's career when this generation is no longer active.
Read now a chronological history about this rivalry, 15 years-old and responsible of 26 matches on the main tour:
The very first match between Ronnie O`Sullivan and Mark Selby was in the quarter-final of the 2002 China Open, and even though it would take many years yet for Selby to become the player he is today, he won that match 5-3.
Five years later they played their first big match, a fantastic start to what would become one of Snooker's biggest rivalries of all time. Runner-up at the Crucible that year, Selby played Ronnie O`Sullivan in the semi-final of the 2007 UK Championship. He led 6-3 and 7-5, but the match went to a decider - where the genius inside O`Sullivan came out and he took the match with a 147. By then O`Sullivan was already troubled by Selby.
2008 came, and having won the Masters on his debut recently, Selby - today renowned for his comebacks - beat Ronnie O`Sullivan in the Final of the Welsh Open 9-8. A normal result if it wasn't for the fact O`Sullivan had led 8-5.
O`Sullivan would later that year beat Selby 7-2 in the Final of the Premier League, and in 2009 he'd deny Selby to win a second Masters in two appearances when he beat him in an epic 10-8 final. At 8-8, Ronnie won a crucial 17th frame by one point. O`Sullivan's happiness with his fourth Masters win was clear.
A 9-3 in the quarter-final of the UK Championship the next season might've told Ronnie's fans that Selby was not one to worry about anymore, but barely a month after that O`Sullivan was going to suffer from one of the heaviest punches that ever hit his career: he looked certain to beat Selby in the Final of the Masters again in 2010 when he built a 9-6 lead, but it wasn't to be. Selby started winning frames, O`Sullivan started getting frustrated and Selby came back to win 10-9.
As soon as that match was over, it was visible: they did not like each other. Mainly because Ronnie hated the "slow and boring" style of Mark Selby.
Not long after, they met at the Crucible and it meant that during the season 2009/10 they played in all three Triple Crown events. It did not help for their rivalry, believe or not Selby hit yet another comeback coming from 9-11 down to beat O`Sullivan 13-11 in that quarter-final.
In fact those wins for Selby over Ronnie in the 2009/10 season were the beginning of the worst spell in Ronnie's career. The Rocket would not win a Ranking Title until 2012, and even when good times came back Selby was there to poke him.
Selby beat O`Sullivan 6-2 in the semi-finals of the 2012 Welsh Open, and in 2013 came from 1-3 down to beat Ronnie 4-3 in the Final of a PTC event.
It takes two players to make out a rivalry though, and O`Sullivan beat Selby 10-4 in the Masters final in 2014, one of the rare occasions their matches went one-sided. O`Sullivan built an 8-1 lead and I wondered whether another unlikely comeback was on the cards when Selby won 3 of the next four, but the Rocket took it in the end.
O`Sullivan had called Selby "the torturer" in his book, but the most important chapter of their rivalry was wrote at the Crucible.
2014 was the best year of O`Sullivan's career, and for me his campaign at the Crucible was technically the best anyone has ever played there. However destiny chose Selby to be the one in Ronnie's path for a hat-trick World Championship wins. O`Sullivan looked well on his way when he led 10-5, but Selby crucially won the last two frames of day one and the 10-7 score overnight didn't tell the tale of the first half, Selby was delighted.
Day two was a nighmare for O`Sullivan and the easy pink he missed at 11-11 will last forever in the memory of his fans. 18-14, Selby World Champion.
After that their grudge off the table faded away. Both were playing their best snooker, and started going to events and exhibitions together. O`Sullivan started doing commentary sometimes for Eurosport and admitted that watching Selby against other players told him he was not "slow" just to annoy him, it was his style of play, and he said before that he "couldn't stop taking it personally".
On the table, it might've done the goods for O`Sullivan, as in 2016 he put in the bag two great wins v Selby, in the quarter-final of both the Masters and the Welsh Open. But even though we're far from their final meeting, Selby still has the last laugh as in December 2016 he beat Ronnie O`Sullivan 10-7 to win the UK Championship and complete his second Triple Crown.
All these players mentioned have been great rivals and helped making O`Sullivan's career as great as it is. You might have your favourite rival as a Rocket fan, or have your own criterias about who's been his greatest rival, but there's no doubt O`Sullivan played more big matches against Selby than anyone else, and a good grudge off the table is always welcome in this case.
O`Sullivan and Selby played 26 times, 16 wins for Ronnie, 9 wins for Selby and one draw; 4 of their matches were semi-finals, with two wins for each; Eight were finals, with five wins for Selby and three wins for Ronnie; In Triple Crown events, they played nine times with five wins for O`Sullivan and four for Selby.
Thanks for reading, I must say a special thanks to Chris Varney for all the pictures used in this text, and to CueTracker where I checked most of the stats I used here.
These clashes - or most of them - are still happening all the time on the main tour. Just last week O`Sullivan played John Higgins, Judd Trump and Neil Robertson in the same tournament. So be sure you don't miss any of them by giving a like to Ronnie O`Sullivan Brasil on Facebook.
Steve Davis had Alex Higgins and Stephen Hendry had Jimmy White, but many people might not have it clear who has been the one who stood in front of Ronnie. It's not for lack of options, so shall we discuss here who was his greatest rival for good.
Firstly we've got to know that to make a big rivalry for Ronnie O`Sullivan you do not need only grudge or having played big matches against him, you need both.
We have for example, Alain Robidoux. He was a great rival of Ronnie in the 90's, and they met in each Triple Crown event. The peak of their grudge came at the Crucible when O`Sullivan beat Robidoux left-handed and was accused of disrespect before proving he could play with either hands and receive his apology. However, it can't be Ronnie's greatest rivalry mainly because all their 8 meetings - which happened in an interval of seven years - were all won by Ronnie.
Names like Mark Williams and Neil Robertson can't go without a mention too. They've been around for a long time of Ronnie's career and contested some great matches against O`Sullivan (one of them very recently, as Robertson beat Ronnie 6-3 in the Final of the inaugural Hong Kong Masters). However most of their big matches were big because of their quality and not because they are rivals off-table. It also makes a difference that players with so many Triple Crown final appearances never met each other in one.As we reach another level of rivalry, we must talk about Paul Hunter. I did not follow Snooker back then before he prematurely left us, but I've seen and heard enough of him to say he was one of the rare players good enough to beat Ronnie playing their own game. Hunter and O`Sullivan met 13 times, 7 wins for Ronnie and 6 wins for Hunter - who won their biggest match at The Masters final in 2004, coming from 2-7 and 7-9 behind to win 10-9.
They've always respected each other off the table and that's not a bad thing, but you will still read here about players who played even more big matches against Ronnie on the table but had no lost love off it.
So now we talk about Shaun Murphy. Two players that clearly don't like each other and have had their say about their rival - Ronnie saying Murphy has no class and Murphy saying Ronnie talks stuff just to put himself on the headlines.
Murphy's been around for the the last 12 years and despite he only won 3 of the 13 meetings he had with Ronnie, one of them was a remarkable 7-3 in the Final of the Premier League 2009, a tournament Ronnie was trying to win for the sixth consecutive time. Revenge came the year next when O`Sullivan retained his title with a 7-1 win over Murphy.
They've got everything a big rivalry needs, except a Triple Crown event Final standing out. And that's where we find Stephen Hendry and Judd Trump.
Then in the noughties fans will remember O`Sullivan's convinving wins v Hendry in the semi-finals of the World Championship in 2004 and 2008, both with a session to spare. Yet Ronnie walking away at 1(17)4 against Hendry in the 2006 UK Championship quarter-final is not just a mark on this rivalry, but a big dark shadow on O`Sullivan's controversial career. O`Sullivan and Hendry played each other on tour 56 times.
As for Judd Trump, he came along in recent years but already earned his place in the history of the player who once was his idol. Their first real huge match was in the semi-final of the 2013 World Championship.
Having beaten Ronnie in 6 of their 11 previous meetings, including in a PTC Final and when they met at The Masters and at the UK Championship, Trump came to that semi-final saying his game was equal to Ronnie's and that he fancied winning it, while Ronnie said that was going to be his last time at the Crucible and he was going to do his best to give himself two extra days there by reaching the Final. In the end O`Sullivan won 17-11 and went on to win his fifth World Title as we know.Ever since all their meetings have been epic. Their very first match after that Crucible clash was in the Final of the 2014 Champion of Champions, which turned out to be the best best of 19 frames match I've seen in terms of high scoring and quality snooker. Ronnie won 10-7 in a match that had 17 breaks over 50, including four Centuries, two 80's and three 70's from Ronnie, and two Centuries and a 90 from Trump. The month after that they played their big match: the UK Championship Final.
They had just contested a tremendous Final but they did not disappoint at the Barbican either. Not as good technically (the match had "only" 12 breaks over 50 in 19 frames, with a Century from Ronnie and two from Trump), it turned out to be one of the greatest UK Championship classics as Trump came from 4-9 down to force a decider - won by Ronnie in pure class.
Trump had his revenge, coming back from 1-2 to beat Ronnie 3-2 in the Final of the 2016 Championship League and then coming back from 6-8 down to beat Ronnie 9-8 in the 2016 European Masters Final.
O`Sullivan though, balanced things again beating Trump 6-5 very recently in the semi-final of the Hong Kong Masters after being 4-5 down and needing snookers in the decider.
There's no doubt Hendry and Trump were great rivals of Ronnie, but you can't class either of them as his greatest rival because they've never been at the same level.
When Ronnie met Hendry in the 90's, he could win a few matches and upset the odds but he was never quite in the same standard of the Scot - something that reversed in the noughties. As for Trump the same thing applies. He might've met Ronnie at his peak and built a very good head-to-head against him, but overall Trump has never been in the same league of Ronnie.
Very few players are left as we get close to decide who was The Rocket's greatest rival. At first we've got to knock Ali Carter and Barry Hawkins out. Carter met Ronnie at the Crucible a few times, including in two Finals, as Hawkins met Ronnie both at the Masters and the World Championship Final, and even became part of the elite group of players to have defeated O`Sullivan at the Crucible in 2016. But Ronnie's head-to-head against them makes it impossible to argue. Carter has never beaten Ronnie, and even though Hawkins has done so and made a real good fight for the World Title v Ronnie in 2013, he's always been inferior and the 1-10 defeat at the 2016 Masters final is the best match to example their head-to-head.
So now only John Higgins and Mark Selby are left. Which was the biggest rivalry? Which will have a bigger mark on The Rocket's career once it's over?
John Higgins became professional the same year as Ronnie O`Sullivan, and their very first meeting was in 1994 at the "Dubai Classic", a best of 9 for a place in the semi-finals, which Ronnie got with a 5-1 win.
Overall, O`Sullivan won 31 and lost 27 of his matches v Higgins, and they also drew 3 times in their 61 encounters. In finals only, they played incredible 17 times, 10 wins for Ronnie and 7 for John. Four of them were in Triple Crown events: the first three went the way of Ronnie, 9-3 in the 1995 Masters, 18-14 in the 2001 World Championship and 10-3 in the 2005 Masters. However, a 10-9 win for John Higgins in the Final of the 2006 Masters was not just one of the biggest moments in sporting history, but also the start of a time when Higgins became O`Sullivan's nightmare.
To this day, since O`Sullivan's defeat the the 2006 Masters (which had followed a comprehensive 9-2 win for Higgins in the 2005 Grand Prix final), O`Sullivan have only beaten Higgins in ranking events twice, and amongst his defeats are the 2009 UK Championship semi-final (another match that O`Sullivan came from 2-8 down just to lose the decider), the 2010 Welsh Open semi-final, the 2011 World Championship quarter-final and the 2016 Champion of Champions final. It's fair to say though that O`Sullivan got one back as their latest meeting - at the recent Hong Kong Masters - was won 5-4 by O`Sullivan after the Scot had led 4-2.
The big mark of this 20 odd years-old rivalry is that in one hand we've got Ronnie: flair, fast and unpredictable. And in the other hand we have Higgins: orthodox, clever and consistent.
Two of the biggest serial winners Snooker has ever seen, the two biggest World Champions on tour and 11 World Finals between them (counting the one they played each other only once), and yet off-table Ronnie O`Sullivan and John Higgins have never been rivals. They've always respected each other a lot, with each regarding the other as the best.
By that I can say O`Sullivan's greatest career rival has been Mark Selby. Not only they had the grudge off the table, they also peaked together and played each other in the Final of all three Triple Crown events. Selby's stunning record against O`Sullivan, the painful defeats that the Rocket's fans had to endure - giving the wins a better taste -, and how different they are on the table makes the classics with Selby the ones that will truly mark O`Sullivan's career when this generation is no longer active.
Read now a chronological history about this rivalry, 15 years-old and responsible of 26 matches on the main tour:
The very first match between Ronnie O`Sullivan and Mark Selby was in the quarter-final of the 2002 China Open, and even though it would take many years yet for Selby to become the player he is today, he won that match 5-3.
Five years later they played their first big match, a fantastic start to what would become one of Snooker's biggest rivalries of all time. Runner-up at the Crucible that year, Selby played Ronnie O`Sullivan in the semi-final of the 2007 UK Championship. He led 6-3 and 7-5, but the match went to a decider - where the genius inside O`Sullivan came out and he took the match with a 147. By then O`Sullivan was already troubled by Selby.
2008 came, and having won the Masters on his debut recently, Selby - today renowned for his comebacks - beat Ronnie O`Sullivan in the Final of the Welsh Open 9-8. A normal result if it wasn't for the fact O`Sullivan had led 8-5.
O`Sullivan would later that year beat Selby 7-2 in the Final of the Premier League, and in 2009 he'd deny Selby to win a second Masters in two appearances when he beat him in an epic 10-8 final. At 8-8, Ronnie won a crucial 17th frame by one point. O`Sullivan's happiness with his fourth Masters win was clear.
A 9-3 in the quarter-final of the UK Championship the next season might've told Ronnie's fans that Selby was not one to worry about anymore, but barely a month after that O`Sullivan was going to suffer from one of the heaviest punches that ever hit his career: he looked certain to beat Selby in the Final of the Masters again in 2010 when he built a 9-6 lead, but it wasn't to be. Selby started winning frames, O`Sullivan started getting frustrated and Selby came back to win 10-9.
As soon as that match was over, it was visible: they did not like each other. Mainly because Ronnie hated the "slow and boring" style of Mark Selby.
Not long after, they met at the Crucible and it meant that during the season 2009/10 they played in all three Triple Crown events. It did not help for their rivalry, believe or not Selby hit yet another comeback coming from 9-11 down to beat O`Sullivan 13-11 in that quarter-final.
In fact those wins for Selby over Ronnie in the 2009/10 season were the beginning of the worst spell in Ronnie's career. The Rocket would not win a Ranking Title until 2012, and even when good times came back Selby was there to poke him.
Selby beat O`Sullivan 6-2 in the semi-finals of the 2012 Welsh Open, and in 2013 came from 1-3 down to beat Ronnie 4-3 in the Final of a PTC event.
It takes two players to make out a rivalry though, and O`Sullivan beat Selby 10-4 in the Masters final in 2014, one of the rare occasions their matches went one-sided. O`Sullivan built an 8-1 lead and I wondered whether another unlikely comeback was on the cards when Selby won 3 of the next four, but the Rocket took it in the end.
2014 was the best year of O`Sullivan's career, and for me his campaign at the Crucible was technically the best anyone has ever played there. However destiny chose Selby to be the one in Ronnie's path for a hat-trick World Championship wins. O`Sullivan looked well on his way when he led 10-5, but Selby crucially won the last two frames of day one and the 10-7 score overnight didn't tell the tale of the first half, Selby was delighted.
Day two was a nighmare for O`Sullivan and the easy pink he missed at 11-11 will last forever in the memory of his fans. 18-14, Selby World Champion.
After that their grudge off the table faded away. Both were playing their best snooker, and started going to events and exhibitions together. O`Sullivan started doing commentary sometimes for Eurosport and admitted that watching Selby against other players told him he was not "slow" just to annoy him, it was his style of play, and he said before that he "couldn't stop taking it personally".
On the table, it might've done the goods for O`Sullivan, as in 2016 he put in the bag two great wins v Selby, in the quarter-final of both the Masters and the Welsh Open. But even though we're far from their final meeting, Selby still has the last laugh as in December 2016 he beat Ronnie O`Sullivan 10-7 to win the UK Championship and complete his second Triple Crown.
All these players mentioned have been great rivals and helped making O`Sullivan's career as great as it is. You might have your favourite rival as a Rocket fan, or have your own criterias about who's been his greatest rival, but there's no doubt O`Sullivan played more big matches against Selby than anyone else, and a good grudge off the table is always welcome in this case.
O`Sullivan and Selby played 26 times, 16 wins for Ronnie, 9 wins for Selby and one draw; 4 of their matches were semi-finals, with two wins for each; Eight were finals, with five wins for Selby and three wins for Ronnie; In Triple Crown events, they played nine times with five wins for O`Sullivan and four for Selby.
Thanks for reading, I must say a special thanks to Chris Varney for all the pictures used in this text, and to CueTracker where I checked most of the stats I used here.
These clashes - or most of them - are still happening all the time on the main tour. Just last week O`Sullivan played John Higgins, Judd Trump and Neil Robertson in the same tournament. So be sure you don't miss any of them by giving a like to Ronnie O`Sullivan Brasil on Facebook.
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