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Ronnie gambles in bid to ferrule world
Daily Express
|May 02, 2025
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN took an emergency trip to a cue doctor last night in a desperate bid to keep his World Championship alive.
The Rocket, 49, was playing with a brand new cue with a titanium ferrule for the first time in his career in his tilt to win a record eighth Crucible crown.
Ahead of his semi-final against Zhao Xintong, the fifth seed branded his cue as “awful” and said he needed a new tip and ferrule.
And after finishing the first session of his 33-frame clash with the Chinese hotshot locked at 4-4, the seven-time champion took his cue to a local repairman to return to a favoured brass ferrule.
This story is from the May 02, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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