Ronnie O’Sullivan cruised into the semi-finals of the 2024 Tour Championship because of a dominant 10-2 victory over Ali Carter on Wednesday.

The Englishmen have turn out to be embroiled in some fiery battles and have exchanged heated phrases with each other previously.

But this contest didn’t dwell as much as the hype, with O’Sullivan profiting from a poor efficiency from Carter to comfortably advance within the competitors.

The Rocket compiled breaks of 92, 87, 81, 77, 54, and 51 in orchestrating a commanding 7-0 cushion, and he was often capable of mop up from his opponent’s quite a few errors.

Carter lastly stopped the rot within the final body of the primary session, setting up a terrific 141 whole clearance that represents the very best break of the week thus far.

The Captain, who completed runner-up to O’Sullivan on the Masters in January, subsequently opened the second session with a run of 70.

However any hopes of an unlikely comeback have been dashed when O’Sullivan reeled off the next three frames with breaks of 67, 62, and 54.

Previous to the match, the 2019 Tour Championship winner stated that he’s going to cease making feedback about different gamers – having just lately gotten into completely different wars of phrases with Carter and others on the principle tour.

“I don’t touch upon gamers now. I’ve discovered my lesson and there’s no worth in it for me,” Ronnie O’Sullivan informed ITV.

“Each time I say one thing it’s type of a little bit of a headline. Ronnie says this and that, and in the event that they get interviewed and so they say one thing about me then it turns into a headline of them speaking about me.”

“I simply thought, ‘what am I really gaining out of this?’ I’m not really gaining something aside from individuals getting the possibility to say what they really feel like they wish to say.

“I’m like, ‘you understand what, I’m proud of my life, I’m proud of my job and I’m proud of what I do.’

“I simply wish to delete all that different stuff, so I feel that it’s best that I don’t touch upon any participant and simply make it a coverage.

“A boundary that I simply don’t overstep only for my very own piece of thoughts and my very own sanity.

“I simply let the opposite guys do what they wish to do and I want all of them the most effective, however so far as I’m involved, that’s not one thing I wish to get entangled in ever once more.”

The 48 year-old stays on track so as to add to his spectacular haul of 5 trophies from a prolific 2023/24 snooker season.

Along with the Masters, O’Sullivan has already collected silverware on the UK Championship, the World Grand Prix, the Shanghai Masters, and the Riyadh Season World Masters.

It marks the fourth time in six editions that O’Sullivan has reached the Tour Championship semi-finals.

The world primary will subsequent meet the winner of the tie between Zhang Anda and Gary Wilson, which is at present all-square at 4-4.

Ding Junhui and Mark Allen reached their midway level as properly, with the Chinese language cueist establishing an in a single day 5-3 benefit.

These two matches will conclude on Thursday, and the fourth quarter-final fixture may even happen between high seed Judd Trump and Welsh legend Mark Williams.

2024 Tour Championship Draw

Spherical of 12 (bo19)

Mark Williams (8) 10-9 Tom Ford (9)

Mark Allen (5) 10-7 John Higgins (12)

Gary Wilson (6) 10-8 Mark Selby (11)

Barry Hawkins (7) 8-10 Ali Carter (10)

Quarter-Finals (bo19)

Matches to be performed on April third and 4th.
Occasions in UTC.

Judd Trump (1) vs Mark Williams (8)
Thurs, 1pm and 7pm

Ding Junhui (4) 5-3 Mark Allen (5)
Thurs, 7pm

Zhang Anda (3) 4-4 Gary Wilson (6)
Thurs, 1pm

Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) 10-2 Ali Carter (10)

Semi-Finals (bo19)

Matches to be performed on April fifth and sixth.
Occasions in UTC.

Trump/M. Williams vs Ding/Allen
Sat, 1pm and 7pm

Zhang/G. Wilson vs Ronnie O’Sullivan (2)
Fri, 1pm and 7pm

Remaining (bo19)

Match to be performed on April seventh.
Occasions in UTC.

TBC vs TBC
Solar, 1pm and 7pm

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