He won his first professional ranking event at aged 17 years and 358 days

[Patrick Johnson]

 

[AtLarge]

They allowed him to enter with those shoes?

 

[Cue Alchemist]

They allowed him to enter with those shoes?

I think he was about 10 when that picture was taken

 

[ribdoner]

hopkins (hair), o'sullivan???

that's all i got

 

[straightline]

Add 10 footer? to that.
Birthday or something?

 

[tomatoshooter]

hopkins (hair), o'sullivan???

that's all i got

I think it's Ronnie.

 

[straightline]

I think it's Ronnie.

What's the occasion?

 

[Dan White]

I think it was Mosconi who said that the great players could just play right away.

 

[Nullus]

That's a very young Ronnie Sullivan sitting on that snooker table.

 

[Dan White]

That's a very young Ronnie Sullivan sitting on that snooker table.

Some considered him the fifth Beatle.

 

[tomatoshooter]

What's the occasion?

He wanted to show off his new shoes!

 

[straightline]

He wanted to show off his new shoes!

Geez have they declassified transchronocom already?

 

[Siz]

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Nice shoes! From his size, you would have thought that he needed some pretty serious platforms in order to play well at that age but apparently not.

I remember seeing Ronnie's name regularly in the last 16 or last 32 of pro-ams when he was about 13 (there were typically 128 or occasionally 256, entries). At the time I was reading all these 'how to play snooker' books written by top pro's. They were all telling you important it was to stand in a certain way, to get your elbow vertically above the cue etc. I asked a friend who was active on the pro-am scene how O'Sullivan did it, whether he was very tall for his age. Apparently not. He was standing a bit awkwardly, stretching, cuing arm out to the side. But the balls went in...

 

[mista335]

That's not Ronnie O'Sullivan.

It's Eddie Munster