Ronnie beat Joe Perry in the Final of the 2026 World Seniors Snooker Championship at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield to become the 2026 World Seniors Snooker Champion. This is actually his first Seniors title.
Congratulations Ronnie!
Here are the scores for the match:
Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-4 Joe Perry
Session 1:
109-6 (109), 131-7 (131), 22-118 (57), 113-0 (113), 81-9 (81), 41-72, 68-70, 75-24
Session 2:
35-69 (51), 87-36, 129-0 (129), 89-9, 70-41, 100-0 (100)
The referee was Proletina Velichkova.
Here is the report shared by Sky Sports
Ronnie O’Sullivan wins first World Seniors championship title | ‘I’d like to finish my career on a strong note’
Snooker Championship final, beating Joe Perry 10-4, a fifth century of the match provided a fitting end; O’Sullivan revealed: “My confidence is quite low. But if I can get some confidence going then I’d like to finish my career on a strong note”
Seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan added a first World Seniors Snooker Championship title to his trophy haul with a convincing 10-4 victory over Joe Perry.
O’Sullivan never looked back after breaks of 110, 131 and 113 saw him go 3-1 up at the mid-session interval before an 81 put him three frames ahead at the Crucible.
Perry won the next two frames but missed the chance to level things up after fluffing two simple pots as O’Sullivan took a 5-3 lead into the evening session.
The deficit was reduced on the resumption with the aid of a 51 break but it was the last frame Perry would win as O’Sullivan closed out victory in clinical style, which included a 129-clearance before his fifth century of the match provided a fitting end.
“This has been a tough tournament to win, every match I played felt hard. I know it might not have looked it but these guys are experienced competitors,,” O’Sullivan told Channel 5.
“I just wanted to enjoy the game, I didn’t want to get bogged down. I thought I’m just going to come and attack the balls. There’s always a risk with that that you lose some easy opportunities. [In the last session] I thought I’ve got to try and dig deep tonight so I came out and I just tried to play match snooker, use my brain.
“I’ve not been playing great for three years so my confidence is quite low and when I get into little situations, I was missing a few and I’m just thinking I never used to miss them balls.
“But if I can get some confidence going then I’d like to finish my career on a strong note. That’s my ambition.”
Interesting and makes sense, but it also made me curious about the direction this whole thing may go. If there are more real matches and less fooling around, it might be interesting, but then no more nostalgia guys? 🤷😆
Session 2 of the final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IybJGtXzBGk
You can find ROS matches from this channel…
Thank you ! 🙏
What surprised me is that it was actually a proper match, best of 19 and best of 13 for the semis, which is unheard of with the seniors. Was it because they managed to make Ronnie play? Poor seniors’ longest matches used to be best of 9s and even that rarely.
I think that it was more because when Jason started his seniors tour he wasn’t allowed to invite top active players. Therefore he played the nostalgia card and got people like Dennis Taylor or Cliff Thorburn on board. These players rarely scored high breaks and frames tended to take quite some time. Cliff, bless him, was shaking badly on the shots. He had never been the fastest player, but with constant tremors he had become really slow. Dennis was doing his own commentary while playing, telling jokes and little stories. It was fun and he probably needed these pauses but … all that didn’t help the pace of the matches.