Ronnie O’Sullivan continues Chinese love affair, calls country ‘greatest place on Earth’
Days after the seven-time world champion took Hong Kong residency, O’Sullivan is in Nanjing and visiting a place that ‘blows me away’
English snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan says he is “blown away” every time he visits China, a country he calls “the greatest place on Earth”.
Days after taking up Hong Kong residency, the seven-time world champion is in Nanjing this week for the International Championship.
A 6-2 win over He Guoqiang got him into the third round on Monday, before he suffered a shock defeat in the last 32 on Tuesday, losing 6-4 to rising Chinese star Pang Junxu.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest snooker players in history, O’Sullivan was last week granted residency under the city’s Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, and called it “a great place to live”.
“I always tell people you have to come to China. For me, it’s the greatest place on Earth,” he told a World Snooker Tour interview on Monday.
“I would just recommend anybody to just come to China. It blows me away. Every city I come to in China … it’s like you’re in another world.
“It’s the best place in the world. There is no other place like China. Every city just has something amazing about it and Nanjing has a lot of history.”
