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Ronnie O'Sullivan had to admit defeat (archive photo)
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In his first game after winning his sixth world champion title, snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan failed at the European Masters on the only 18-year-old newcomer Aaron Hill from Ireland.
The 44-year-old O'Sullivan had meanwhile converted a 1: 3 deficit into a 4: 3, but then retired 4: 5.
"I'm speechless," said the junior player Hill after the win.
"I didn't want to be satisfied with being here, I wanted to win too," said number 115 in the world rankings.
After the triumph against the favorites, his cell phone "never stopped ringing. My family and friends, they all wrote to me. It will probably be until Christmas before I have answered all the messages."
After reaching the quarter-finals at the World Cup, superstar O'Sullivan had made disdainful comments on the youngsters in snooker.
"Most of them would do well as reasonably decent amateurs - or not even as amateurs. They are so bad," he had explained. to fall out of the top 50. "
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