Ronnie O'Sullivan has called for sympathy with the players under investigation as part of snooker’s match-fixing probe and hit back at Shaun Murphy’s claim anyone found guilty should be banned for life.
The Rocket eased past Luca Brecel 6-1 in the first round of a Masters which is missing 2021 champion Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong, two of 10 Chinese players suspended as part of an ongoing World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) inquiry.
Murphy and Dave Gilbert, O’Sullivan’s potential opponent in the last eight, are among those to have called for any players proven to have committed wrongdoing to be banished from the baize for good but O’Sullivan has taken a more liberal view.
