ROCKETING RON & ON

RONNIE O'SULLIVAN insists his game is still a work in progress despite storming towards a 23rd World Championship quarter-final last night.

- BY SHANE MacDERMOTT

The Rocket, 49, resumed 6-2 ahead of Chinese qualifier Pang Junxu and maintained his dominance to leave himself one frame from victory at 12-4 up ahead of tonight's session.

O'Sullivan is bidding to land a record eighth Crucible crown this year in Sheffield.

And the world No.5 revealed he is ready to rededicate himself to the sport by cutting out lucrative exhibitions and getting a brand new cue in a bid to return to the top. In recent years O'Sullivan has run himself into the ground with long exhibition tours in China.

And he insisted: "I'm going to give myself two years. No more exhibitions, no more distractions off the table.