
Stephen Hendry has referred to as Ronnie O’Sullivan the best snooker participant of all-time, however that doesn’t imply he’s his favorite to look at.
That’s no criticism of the Rocket, with the Scot placing his fellow seven-time world champion second in his prime 5 favorite gamers of all-time to look at.
Additionally in that prime 5 are an ideal rival of Hendry in his pomp, the present world primary and a few gamers who’re but to show their flamboyant types into a lot silverware.
Speaking via his favorite gamers to look at on WST’s Snooker Membership podcast, the legendary Whirlwind was first to be talked about.
‘Quantity 5 is Jimmy [White]. Not Jimmy now, however Jimmy in his prime,’ stated Hendry.
‘Jimmy was my hero after I began enjoying. I used to document movies of him and attempt to copy a few of the photographs he was enjoying, a few of the photographs he used to play was mainly what bought me to fall in love with snooker, actually. He was my hero.’
Subsequent in line comes the 2019 world champion, the reigning world primary and the 30-time rating occasion winner, Judd Trump.

‘Quantity 4 I’m going to go Judd Trump,’ stated Hendry. ‘Judd Trump is unimaginable to look at, he performs photographs that nobody else can play.
‘The ability, the naughty snooker on the finish of frames and the creativeness to suppose up these photographs. What a break-builder, 107 centuries in a season!’
The 56-year-old then went for Jack Lisowski, a participant nonetheless trying to find his first rating title, however is undoubtedly a delight to look at on the desk.

Hendry defined: ‘Quantity three I’m going to go Jack Lisowski. What an attractive snooker participant, just like the mirror picture of Ronnie, he’s left-handed, Ronnie’s right-handed. Very comparable cue actions.
‘I simply love watching him play, what a expertise, he’s simply unimaginable. Simply ready for the victories.’
Then got here the Rocket, with Hendry saying: ‘Quantity two, this could possibly be controversial, Ronnie O’Sullivan.
‘If Ronnie is in a match and I get my rota for commentating, I at all times hope to be on his matches.
‘He’s the best participant of all-time. Break-building, cue ball management, for those who don’t like watching that you then don’t like watching snooker. When he’s on he performs the sport completely, mainly.’
At primary, forward of the likes of O’Sullivan and Trump, is the present world quantity 46, Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.
Hendry is aware of from private expertise how good the 40-year-old is, having performed him in 2021 and watched him knock in breaks of 136, 129, 107, 106, 100, 59, and 52 in a 6-1 loss.

‘Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is my favorite participant to look at,’ stated Hendry. ‘Unbelievable expertise.
‘He beat me 6-1 as soon as within the UK Championship qualifiers, he had 5 centuries and I don’t suppose any of them took greater than seven or eight minutes. The cue ball was on a string, it was absolute perfection.’
The person referred to as F1 for his velocity across the desk has only one rating title to his title, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out and has been to only one rating semi within the final 5 seasons, which Hendry finds onerous to consider.
‘How he’s the place he’s ranked on the earth…expertise isn’t sufficient by itself to achieve success and he proves it as a result of he’s bought bucket a great deal of expertise,’ he stated.
‘I like watching him play. It’s all-out assault, he refuses nothing. Unimaginable expertise, unimaginable participant, unimaginable velocity.’
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