Ronnie O’Sullivan says he is motivated by the opportunity to “ruin the careers” of his major rivals after he breezed into the ninth UK Snooker Championship final of his career with a 6-2 win over Hossein Vafaei in York.
Thirty years after he first won the title as a 17-year-old in 1993, O’Sullivan will face Ding Junhui on Sunday – after he beat Judd Trump 6-4 in the other semi-final – seeking to win a record-extending eighth crown and shut out one of the pair from building their own collection of silverware.
