I’m not good enough to beat world’s best anymore, says Ronnie O’Sullivan after win at lucrative China event

Five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan said he was not good enough to compete with the world’s best players after reaching the International Championship second round in Daqing, China.

England’s 40-year-old world number nine, who won his sixth Masters title in January and the Welsh Open in February, added on Monday that he was nowhere near his 2014 level.

“I haven’t had any good results but that tells you where I am with my game,” he was quoted as saying by the BBC.

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O’Sullivan was beaten in the first round of the World Grand Prix, the second round of the world championships in April, the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters and the last 32 of English Open.

He also lost to world number three Judd Trump in this month’s European Masters final.