Ronnie O’Sullivan says he ‘lost the plot’ before pulling out of Masters defence

“I’ve been on this three-week trip away playing, and I think I just exhausted myself,” said O'Sullivan. 

O’Sullivan withdrew from his Masters title defence on Friday on medical grounds. Picture: Richard Sellers/PA Wire.

Ronnie O’Sullivan has called his withdrawal from this year’s Masters event “a nightmare decision”, adding that he “lost the plot” and broke his cue in half before dropping out of last week’s Championship League.

Speaking in his role as a pundit on Eurosport, O’Sullivan said: “It was a nightmare decision, really, to make. If you’d asked me Sunday if I was ready to play, I probably would have been OK to play, but it’s such a massive tournament.”