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RONNIE O\u2019Sullivan is out of the 2018 Welsh open after being thoroughly beaten 5-1 by world number five, John Higgins, tonight.<\/span>
\nThe Rocket made a lot of uncharacteristic errors to give Higgins control, with the Scot potting several high breaks, including two centuries, to send O\u2019Sullivan home.<\/span>
\nHiggins will now face Gary Wilson tomorrow for a spot in Sunday’s final.<\/span>
\nOn his defeat O\u2019Sullivan was full of praise for his opponent.<\/span>
\n\u201cJohn\u2019s just a different class,\u201d he said. \u201cJust a brilliant, brilliant player.<\/span>
\n\u201cI knew that if I didn\u2019t find an improvement on what I\u2019ve done so far in the tournament he would get to my weaknesses and he did. He exposed them and I got what I deserved.\u201d<\/span>
\nThe first frame followed the script from the rest of the week with O\u2019Sullivan pouncing on a poor safety from Higgins to clear up and take the early lead. But the first breakthrough came in the second frame.<\/span>
\nHiggins potted a red to the left middle pocket after a brief safety exchange to then go on to score a break of 113, becoming the first player in the tournament to win a frame against \u00a0O\u2019Sullivan.<\/span>
\nThe third frame went the same way after an ill judged safety from O\u2019Sullivan gave Higgins control of the table, with Scot eventually taking the frame 83-0 to take the lead.<\/span>
\nA tense fourth frame lasted 28 minutes. Higgins snatched the frame after O\u2019Sullivan potted the white into the left middle pocket just as he seemed certain to clear up.<\/span>
\nA quick fire break of 30 from the Rocket did little to stop his opponent as he came unstuck by a clever snooker by Higgins which put O\u2019Sullivan one frame from defeat.<\/span>
\nHiggins then survived almost potting the white early in the sixth frame, before a classy break of 101 sealed his spot in the semi finals.<\/span>
\nHiggins said he was \u201csurprised\u201d by O’Sullivan\u2019s performance.<\/span>
\n\u201cEvery win where you beat Ronnie\u2019s a great win,\u201d he said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t play great tonight Ronnie and I was a little bit surprised.<\/span>
\n\u201cI know I\u2019ve got a tough game with Gary (Wilson). Last time I beat Gary he beat me and he\u2019s getting more used to the business end of tournaments.”<\/span>
\nThe first semi final between Barry Hawkins and Noppon Saengkham will be played at 1.00pm tomorrow, with Higgins taking on World Number 55 Wilson at 7.00pm in the evening session.<\/span>
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RONNIE O\u2019Sullivan is out of the 2018 Welsh open after being thoroughly beaten 5-1 by world number five, John Higgins, tonight. The Rocket made a lot of uncharacteristic errors to give Higgins control, with the Scot potting several high breaks, including two centuries, to send O\u2019Sullivan home. Higgins will now face Gary Wilson tomorrow for a spot in Sunday’s final. On his defeat O\u2019Sullivan was full of praise for his opponent. \u201cJohn\u2019s just a different class,\u201d he said. \u201cJust a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":26810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,4],"tags":[5823,602,606,580,581],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snooker","category-sport","tag-gary-wilson","tag-john-higgins","tag-ronnie-osullivan","tag-snooker-2","tag-welsh-open"],"yoast_head":"\nO\u2019Sullivan out of Welsh Open after masterclass from Higgins - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/02\/osullivan-welsh-open-higgins-masterclass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"O\u2019Sullivan out of Welsh Open after masterclass from Higgins - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RONNIE O\u2019Sullivan is out of the 2018 Welsh open after being thoroughly beaten 5-1 by world number five, John Higgins, tonight. 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