{"id":18009,"date":"2026-02-02T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:12:02","slug":"really-special-wu-yize-will-be-world-number-one-osullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18009","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Really special&#8217; Wu Yize will be world number one &#8211; O&#8217;Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Seven-time world champion Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan believes that the &#8220;really special&#8221; Wu Yize will become the world number one within three years.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/c07m2zjm83mo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wu won his first ranking title<\/a> when he beat four-time world champion John Higgins in the final of the International Championship in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afterwards, Higgins described the 22-year-old from China as a &#8220;total star&#8221; and compared him to three-time Masters champions Paul Hunter, who died in 2006 aged 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, O&#8217;Sullivan said Wu reminded him of six-time world champion and BBC Sport pundit Steve Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think Wu Yize is gong to be world number one, I&#8217;d give him three years, definitely going to be world champion very, very soon, [he&#8217;s a] phenomenal player,&#8221; said O&#8217;Sullivan, speaking before this week&#8217;s World Grand Prix in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people liken him to Paul Hunter but I think he&#8217;s more like a modern day Steve Davis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s more dynamic, more cue power, more aggressive, more scoring power but his positional play for me is on the level of Steve Davis, [and the ball] always goes in the middle of the hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cgm4rdv3710o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time world champion Ronn&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}