O’Sullivan tempted to jump into jungle

BIANCA Walkden won her fifth successive title at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Ivory Coast. The world No 1 from Liverpool is the first to win all four Grand Prix events in the same year. ‘I can’t believe I’ve done it and I’m pinching myself,’ she said. ‘I didn’t think it was possible.’ RONNIE O’SULLIVAN may yet bow to pressure and go on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The Rocket ensured a UK Championship third-round date on his 42nd birthday tomorrow with a 6-1 win over Michael Georgiou. O’Sullivan, bidding for a record-equalling sixth UK title at York’s Barbican Centre, said: ‘I was looking at it this year and I was thinking I have to have a go at the jungle. They look like they are having a lot of fun in there. You can take your family and have a holiday. ‘I’m starting to come around, so if the price is right they can talk to my agent and count me in.’ O’Sullivan would be following fellow snooker stars Steve Davis and Jimmy White into the jungle. Boxer Amir Khan is rumoured to be on £400,000 for the current series. Meanwhile, Mark King missed out on a potential £20,000 windfall as a 147-break slipped from his grasp with just two shots left during the third frame of his match against Mike Dunn. King ran out of position off the final blue and left the pink up, but his compensation was a 6-4 second-round victory. WORLD No 2 Alfie Hewett became the first British men’s singles champion at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough. Hewett defeated close-friend Gordon Reid, the Scot who denied him Paralympic gold in Rio last summer, in straight sets in yesterday’s final. Hewett, 19, beat his doubles partner 6-3, 6-2 and said: ‘I feel great. It was a really good performance.’ However, there was disappointment for fellow Briton Andy Lapthorne in the final of the quad singles as his hopes of ending the year as world No 1 were dashed in a 6-1, 6-2 loss to David Wagner of America.