Why do snooker players retire

Goddamn Selby! Why is it so hard to contain him in the 3rd session? Erza Scarlet wrote: Goddamn Selby! Let's see how well he'll be still playing at that age if he decides to do it. But I've always been a fan of players retiring while they are still at the top of their game or at least close to be at the top. No point in doing a Davis or White and spending years losing to journeymen.

My ideal scenario would be if Ronnie O'Sullivan won another World title and then retired after that. TheRocket wrote: 50 sounds like a good age. Cloud Strife wrote: I hope he plays til he's a hundred years old. SnookerFan wrote: Cloud Strife wrote: I hope he plays til he's a hundred years old. Every time I think his results have gone too bad, his form slipping, he comes back and plays his A game and wins back to back tournaments.

So even if he has a dodgy couple of seasons he may come back. Again and again. Who knows how long that will continue? Well it will be Anthony McGill who is the favourite now the win the Masters and the Worlds With a possibility of some high quality tartan tussles.

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Point 2 is being addressed and thank god for that. Overall I have changed my view on PTC being useless lotteries. Yes, see, people can change their minds. They are just as difficult as a normal ranker because the extra matches balance out the difficulty. The real problem lies with lack of frames played. A shot clock would soon fix that in some of these PTC's. Regardless, the original point was that someone was knocking o'sullivan and saying PTC are not real rankers, and I stand by my point that they are every bit as "hard" as a normal ranker.

They are comparable. It is desperation to say "Ronnie has only won" and then make excuses for anything that doesn't fit your criteria, including the Masters.

PTCs aren't a lottery. What they are is a leveller because they take away the advantages the top players usually enjoy. However, the top players are still winning most of them. Because they're the best players. Well I guess relative lottery is a better term. I disagree with that now, but Snooker does have a very fine line between winners and losers with best of 7's and even 9's sometimes.

When the field is strong you don't see dominance like you do with Tennis and Darts, and in PTC especially there has been a huge variance in later stage players. Depends how you define a top player. By my calculations of the 19 ptcs so far only 9 have been won by players who were ranked in the top 16 at the time. Anon 8. Ptcs are virtually always 10 to 1 the field whereas in normal ranking events it is about 5 to 1 the field.

That has been more skewed this season with five of the seven titles going to top 16 players. While it is true that most of the titles last season weren't won by top 16 players, the results still heavily skewed in their favour. This season it is kind of looking anomalous when a player from outside of the top 16 wins; the audiences and TV coverage seems to be seeing the events conform to a more traditional outcome.

Post a Comment. Give or take a couple of weeks it is 25 years since Rex Williams became the oldest player to appear in a ranking final. The old guard who helped make snooker such a successful TV sport in the s were gradually forced off the stage by younger players who in turn raised standards. This would mean him winning the title in , only five years away. Is this possible? Could a player win the world title in their 40s?

It depends on the player. John Higgins is 36, as is Mark Williams. These three have proved to be every bit as good in their 30s as they were in their 20s. Reardon was 45 when he won his sixth world title in and people forget how close he ran Alex Higgins in the final four years later when he was The Welshman is the oldest winner of a ranking title.

He was 50 when he captured the Professional Players Championship. The game has changed since Fred Davis reached the World Championship semi-finals at 64 in but this is still a remarkable feat given the stamina required, particularly in the days of hard as nails snooker.

Fred last qualified for the Crucible in when he was At 77 he won two qualifying matches for the Mercantile Classic. He played his last match as a professional at the age of 79 to bring a pro career of some 57 years to a conclusion. That is a series of accomplishments that it is very hard to see being emulated. Steve Davis has, of course, continued to defy conventional wisdom by producing highly creditable performances into his 50s. Davis, 54, is not just hanging on. He is still playing well, as he proved when he reached the semi-finals of PTC6 in Poland a few weeks ago.

He said before that event that he was taking things seriously again, which suggests he has been practising.