Stephen Hendry has put Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ali Carter’s latest spat right down to the pair being ‘mentally exhausted’ after their Masters campaigns, however predicts their subsequent assembly might be ‘spicy’.
The Rocket and the Captain haven’t been on nice phrases for a while and their feud got here to a head on Sunday once they met within the last at Alexandra Palace.
O’Sullivan received the sport 10-7, however then the battle on the baize become a confrontation within the post-match press conferences.
Carter accused the world quantity considered one of ‘snotting everywhere in the flooring’ through the match and when the accusation was put to the Rocket, he fired again.
‘He must type his f***ing life out,’ mentioned O’Sullivan. I’m not going to skirt round it anymore, tip-toeing on egg shells round somebody like that. He’s a f***ing nightmare.
‘He’s acquired points. F***ing why has he acquired points with me? I’m not having it. I don’t care, develop some balls. I don’t give a f about any of those snooker gamers, any of them.’
Hendry gave his response to the headline-grabbing beef, noting that each males can have been mentally drained after a excessive profile week at one of many sport’s largest occasions.
‘It’s between the 2 of them and clearly there’s unhealthy blood there, there’s little doubt about it, and it’s gone again fairly a good distance. Clearly they’ve recognized one another a very long time,’ Hendry mentioned on the Snooker Membership podcast.
‘How is it going to influence on them for the remainder of the season so far as the snooker is worried? I don’t suppose it’ll have an effect on Ronnie in any respect, these form of issues simply form of brush off Ronnie.
‘However Carter has acquired to watch out that this form of factor doesn’t influence him, particularly taking part in right away this week within the Grand Prix, that it doesn’t have an effect on his sport.
‘Individuals don’t realise that successful these huge occasions… it won’t appear to be it with Ronnie, the way in which he treats it so simply, but it surely does take it out of you mentally.
‘However each gamers can have been mentally exhausted after that week and typically you get requested questions within the press convention straight after and also you’re nonetheless raging after dropping and also you react in another way than you may need completed had you waited half an hour to do the press convention.
‘So issues are nonetheless clearly fairly uncooked for each gamers however they’ve acquired to start out once more this week and the subsequent time they play one another it’s going to be spicy, there’s little doubt about it.’
Hendry might definitely see why opponents might grow to be annoyed with O’Sullivan throughout his Masters marketing campaign, as a result of his all-out-attack type, which the Scot reckons may very well be seen as disrespectful.
‘The way in which he was taking part in all week, it’s bordering on taking the mickey out of your opponent with the way in which he’s taking part in and the balls he’s going for,’ he mentioned.
‘It’s nearly like: “Nicely I’m simply going to do what I need and when you can’t deal with it then honest sufficient, I’m simply going to play this sport.”
‘Carter stood as much as him within the afternoon after which at night time Ronnie needed to change his sport as a result of that wasn’t going to work to maintain taking part in like that.’
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