10 more days for Ronnie O'Sullivan to decide whether or not to participate in the World Championship

Ronnie O'Sullivan is going to leave it until the eve of the World Championship to decide if he'll compete at the Crucible.

"I haven’t made my mind up, I’ll probably make a decision on maybe the 17th or 18th of April. I don’t know when I’m due to play my first match, so I’m going to try and leave myself as much time as possible.

"I’d love to be able to go there and play, I’d love to be able to have the confidence to be able to get my cue out and go and play snooker. I just need to give myself as much time as possible to see where I’m at with it, and see whether it’s something I’m going to be able to do.

"It’s been a real struggle. I’ve tried to play my way through. I’ve had moments and glimpses where I thought, OK, this is OK. But on the whole, probably three and a half years out of the last four have been pretty terrible for me, and that’s kind of took its toll.

Ronnie O'Sullivan is still thinking about it

"I kind of got a bit tired. It kind of ground me down to the point where I kind of lost the love for the game, and that’s why in January I snapped my cue just in temper, in frustration. I don’t really want to feel like that, you know, so I’ve taken time out.

"I’m just gonna try and fix what I think is the problem before I come back to play serious snooker again."