‘Hit slow play hard’

RONNIE O’SULLIVAN has called on World Snooker to show some teeth over slow play.

The authorities are finally addressing the practice with average shot times published in a ‘name and shame’ move, with threats of fines or even bans for those persistently exceeding 30 seconds per shot.

‘The Rocket’ said: “Unless you are going to make an example of someone, then players will carry on getting away with it.

“There needs to be a player getting punished for it, and then it will stop, and others will think, ‘I don’t want that to be me’.”