On May 2, Beijing time, Ronnie O'Sullivan led Trump in the final of the World Snooker Championships. Compared to the latter having a surname with a king, O'Sullivan's story is more fascinating.
Ronnie's father, Ronald John O'Sullivan, founded a sex toy store and amassed a fortune. But little O'Sullivan had not yet enjoyed this, which became a burden on him.
When Little Rocket was a minor, his father went to jail. Then, my mother went in for a while. There is also an uneasy sister in the family. But the Rockets are still strong, and with their outstanding athletic talent, he has become a legend of snooker and an idol for many later generations.
The elder O'Sullivan was an amateur billiards enthusiast, and every day after closing the door, he would teach little O'Sullivan to practice billiards. Little O'Sullivan was talented, but he soon discovered that his father had no time to spend with him.
According to the British media, due to the decline in sales that year, the food business of the elder O'Sullivan was not good. Of course, food was the idea of O'Sullivan's mother, Mary O'Sullivan. The latter was born in Sicily and was born Italian who cooked.
Soon, the elder O'Sullivan found a way to make money. The sex stores of that year were also new in Europe and the United States. In the late 1980s, the elder O'Sullivan opened a self-service sex shop in central London. This brought him in nearly a million pounds in revenue.
After the old O'Sullivan developed, someone soon came to the door. According to the Newspaper Sun, the notorious Chelsea gangster had a financial dispute with the elder O'Sullivan, and the boss driver was eventually stabbed to death by John O'Sullivan in the garage. Eventually, John went to jail and was sentenced to 18 years.
This is the story of 1992, when O'Sullivan was only 17 years old. The store passed into his mother's hands, but soon O'Sullivan was forced to become the owner of the store.
After Mary O'Sullivan took over the store, she began to evade taxes and was eventually discovered. Later, she was sentenced to more than a year in prison.
The O'Sullivan family was left with only Ronnie and his sister. And, Ronnie's sister, is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Ronnie can only play while running the shop at home. In the end, he chose to become a professional snooker player.
And even now, snooker's income is not high. The World Championship prize money is also only 500,000 pounds, which is equivalent to the salary of top professional footballers for a week.
Mother Mary was more irresponsible than her father. After being released from prison, Mary and John divorced. In 2010, when John was released from prison, Mary was fined £35,000 for running a sex toy shop.
Despite the unreliability of his family, Ronnie is strong. He had been waiting for his father's return and made him proud of himself. The Rockets' 3 world championships were won by his father after he was released from prison.
O'Sullivan once told the media that he himself was a master darts player. He liked the lively atmosphere of the darts scene and did not like the quiet playing environment of Snooker. Maybe when he was a kid, he was always the only one in the family.
Unlike other players, the Rocket hits the ball very fast. This may be related to his childhood, when O'Sullivan really did not have much time.
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