O’SULLIVAN TREATS ‘HELLHOLE’ TO 147

TWO days after describing Crawley’s K2 Leisure Centre as a ‘hellhole’, five-time world snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, 42, treated the crowd to the 15th maximum break of his career. The 147 sealed O’Sullivan’s 4-0 win over Allan Taylor in the English Open second round. Earlier in the week O’Sullivan complained that he could smell urine in the interview area and criticised organisers for not separating the Open from other events held there. dERECK CHIsoRa has unexpectedly signed management terms with onetime bitter rival david Haye, the former world heavyweight champion. Chisora, 34, was stopped by Haye in five rounds in 2012 after the pair brawled at a press conference. In recent months Chisora’s reputation has risen. He had a career-best win over Carlos Takam in July and is favourite to fight dillian Whyte in a rematch on december 22. JO KONTA is in Moscow’s Kremlin Cup last eight after beating Daria Gavrilova of Australia 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. She plays Belarus’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the quarterfinals. Fellow Briton Cameron Norrie beat Spain’s Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-2 at the European Open in Antwerp. He faces Argentine Diego Schwartzman in the last 16. WaKEFIELd’s Tom Johnstone (left) bagged a first-half hat-trick of tries on his England rugby league debut as France were crushed 44-6 at Leigh sports Village. In a warm-up for three home Tests against New Zealand, Tom Burgess bagged a first-minute try and there were others for Richie Myler, debutant Luke Thompson, Elliott Whitehead and Jake Connor.