Sean O'Sullivan (snooker player)

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Sean O'Sullivan
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Sean O'Sullivan at the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
Born (1994-04-29) 29 April 1994 (age 30)
Whitechapel, East London, England
Sport country  England
Nickname The Storm
Professional 2012–2014, 2015–
Highest ranking 82 (December 2015)
Current ranking 90 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings £29,717[1]
Highest break 142 (2013 China Open Qualifying)
Century breaks 12[1]
Best ranking finish Last 64 (x4)
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Sean Francis O'Sullivan (born 29 April 1994) is an English professional snooker player. He is nicknamed The Storm.

O'Sullivan turned professional in 2012 after qualifying via Event 2 of the Q School and gained a two year tour card for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 snooker seasons. In the event, he beat Christopher Keogan 4–1, Nick Dyson 4–0, Mohammed Al Shaikh from Bahrain 4–1 and Michael Wild 4–3, before seeing off Ryan Causton 4–1 in the quarter-finals.[2]

Career

Debut season

O'Sullivan lost his first nine matches as a professional, picking up his first victory in the minor-ranking European Tour Event 3 by beating David Gilbert 4–3, before losing 4–2 to Jimmy Robertson.[3] The tournament formed part of the Players Tour Championship events, with O'Sullivan playing in all ten tournaments, finishing 98th on the Order of Merit.[4]

His best run of results came in qualifying for the China Open, where he defeated Craig Steadman and Alfie Burden, but then lost 5–3 to Rory McLeod.[3] O'Sullivan's season ended when he was beaten 10–6 by Michael Wasley in the first round of World Championship Qualifying.[5] He finished his first year on tour ranked world number 91.[6]

2013/2014 season

O'Sullivan's only win at the venue stage of a ranking event during the 2013/2014 season came at the UK Championship when he defeated Anthony Hamilton 6–4, before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to Noppon Saengkham in the second round.[7] He dropped off the tour at the end of the season as he was ranked world number 102, well outside of the top 64 who retain their places.[8] O'Sullivan entered Q School in a bid to win his place back, but lost in the last 32 in both events.[7]

2014/2015 season

At the Riga Open in August 2014, O'Sullivan reached his first quarter-final in a professional event with wins over Jamie Burnett, Mark Joyce, Jak Jones and Mark Davis, before he was beaten 4–0 by Mark Allen.[9][10] He also played in all three of the Asian Tour events and, thanks to a last 16 showing in the Xuzhou Open, he finished 22nd on the Asian Order of Merit which has earned him a new two-year main snooker tour card for the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 seasons.[11]

2015/2016 season

O'Sullivan dropped just two frames in reaching the last 16 of the Paul Hunter Classic where he lost 4–0 to Michael Holt. He would ultimately finish 38th on the European Order of Merit.[12] In the main ranking events he qualified for the International Championship courtesy of a 6–3 win over Robin Hull, but lost 6–0 to Anthony McGill in the first round.[13] O'Sullivan made five breaks of 50 or above to eliminate Kurt Maflin 6–3 in the first round of the UK Championship, before being defeated 6–4 by Matthew Selt.[14][15] He could only win one more match after this and lost 10–5 to Ross Muir in the first round of World Championship qualifying.[13]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16
Ranking[16][nb 1] UR UR[nb 2] 91 102[nb 3] UR
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open A LQ LQ LQ LQ
Shanghai Masters A LQ LQ A LQ
International Championship NH LQ LQ LQ 1R
UK Championship A LQ 2R A 2R
German Masters A LQ A LQ LQ
Welsh Open A LQ 1R A 1R
World Grand Prix A LQ A NR DNQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A LQ LQ LQ LQ
World Championship A LQ LQ LQ LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic NR LQ LQ LQ NH
Indian Open Not held 1R LQ NH
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ He was an amateur.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012-2012/2013)

References

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