Ronnie O’Sullivan targets Hong Kong Masters for return from ‘really bad’ arm injury

Seven-time world champion reveals he is taking a two-month break but hopes to make his comeback at October’s ‘big event’

‘I thought I better rest it and try and get better for that,’ O’Sullivan says, with Hong Kong snooker officials targeting world’s best players

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Ronnie O’Sullivan celebrates with the trophy after winning his seventh world championship in Sheffield, England. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 2:14pm, 14 Aug 2022Updated: 3:58pm, 14 Aug 2022

Ronnie O’Sullivan plans to take a two-month break from snooker to let a “really bad” arm injury heal, and he is targeting October’s Hong Kong Masters for his comeback.

Snooker officials confirmed the return of the tournament last month, with eight of the world’s best players to be invited in a move designed the show the city is “back for business”.

Seven-time world champion O’Sullivan is one of the players who has been targeted by Vincent Law Wing-chung, chairman of the Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council, and “The Rocket” seems keen to take part in the event which gets under way on October 6.

“I’ve had an injury for my arm for about the last year,” he told Eurosport. “But the last two months it’s just got really bad so I really need to rest it.

World No 1 and seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan demonstrates during a snooker lesson at his newly opened academy in Singapore on June 13, 2022. Photo: AFP

“Hopefully it will get better and I think it’s a time-healing process. One of the big events that I want to play in is in Hong Kong which is in early October.

“So I thought I better rest it and try and get it better for that.”

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