Ronnie O’Sullivan fears snooker’s Chinese stars are set to black-ball the UK over the coronavirus. The game’s superstar could have played his last match this season with the chances of next month’s World Championship taking place increasingly bleak.
Five-time world champion O’Sullivan, 44, is a hero to many of the UK-based contingent from the Far East – where the outbreak started in Wuhan.
While China’s drastic lockdown, quarantine and travel measures were highly controversial, the number of new cases there has started to fall.
O’Sullivan said: “A lot of the Chinese players have gone back to China or are itching to go back – they don’t feel safe here. “Some have got flights back because they saw how China reacted to the outbreak of the
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