Ronnie O’Sullivan has suggested newbie standout Daniel Wells to stay a ‘part-time participant’ with a fairly brutal evaluation, saying: ‘He’s by no means going to be a match winner, he’s simply not ok.’
Wells is a former skilled who reached as excessive as quantity 52 on the earth however dropped off tour in 2021 and has been competing as an newbie since.
The 34-year-old has performed in a couple of skilled competitions this season and has completed properly, together with on the Welsh Open this week, the place he beat Matt Selt to arrange a conflict with Judd Trump within the final 32.
The Welshman seems to be set to return to the skilled tour subsequent season due to his performances however O’Sullivan says he can be higher off not inviting that strain on himself.
The Rocket reckons Wells is enjoying good things as an newbie as he isn't enjoying below the pressure of snooker being a full-time job and he ought to proceed with that method.
‘I feel for him he ought to simply keep as a part-time participant, irrelevant of how properly he does, simply keep half time snooker,’ O’Sullivan stated on Eurosport. ‘It’s took the strain off him.
‘Subsequent yr if he will get a principal tour card and invests completely in snooker I wager he goes again to getting overwhelmed and never having fun with it once more.
‘So for him he’s higher off as a part-time participant. There’s lots of gamers on tour who would play higher in the event that they had been part-time as a result of the strain wouldn’t be on them.
‘Any time they get an opportunity to play they ‘d take pleasure in it. However when you begin to change it and it turns into every part, they disintegrate.
‘There’s lots of them on tour who can’t mentally maintain it. If I used to be advising him I’d inform him to remain as a part-time participant, you’re having enjoyable and having fun with it. That’s the way in which he’s going to play his greatest snooker.’
It was put to O’Sullivan that Wells, like many others, have desires of being skilled gamers and competing in each occasion relatively than simply when a top-up place is out there, however the Rocket had a fairly stinging response.
‘He’s tried that and he ain’t that stage, by no means will likely be,’ stated the world primary. ‘At greatest he’ll perhaps make a couple of semi-finals every so often, but it surely’s laborious to take a position every part into that when he can nonetheless do this as a part-time participant.
‘He’s nonetheless able to attending to the semis of this [Welsh Open] however he’s by no means going to be a match winner, he’s simply not ok.’
O’Sullivan added: ‘He’s a succesful participant, however solely when there’s not that intense participant on him.
‘If he’s having fun with the sport, and enjoying the sport as a result of he loves enjoying the sport, then he’s a handful.’
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