Jimmy White confident ‘jagged’ Ronnie O’Sullivan will be ‘up and ready to try to win the UK Championship’

“He says he’s got other things going on, he gave us a little taster but didn’t really tell us what it was,” White said in the Eurosport studio.

“It looked to me that in his game, from when he came back from Hong Kong he didn’t really play much since then, so he may have been a bit tired, a bit jagged.

“But make no mistake, he will be up and ready to try to win the UK Championship.”

The UK Championship, which takes place from November 12 to November 20, is the next ranking tournament on the calendar and it will be live on Eurosport and discovery+.

As for Grace, he will play Tian Pengfei in the next round on Thursday after one of the biggest wins of his career.

Alan McManus was glad to see the 37-year-old finally be rewarded for the effort he puts in off the table.

“His first five years as a pro he had scant reward for a lot of the hard graft,” said McManus. “I know the big fella, he puts the effort in up at Leeds.

“It’s good to see guys like that getting rewarded because the effort he puts in, he loves the game, he’s a historian of it, he probably dreams about it. It’s a good story.”

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