Ronnie O'Sullivan on his blistering level of play: I'm not happy with my form

In what feels like a continuation of his 10-5 win over Shaun Murphy in the UK Championship final on Sunday, world number two O'Sullivan was at his brilliant best as he pieced together breaks of 112, 72, 80 and 101 to progress to the last 32 with ease.

O'Sullivan is the leading money winner in the sport this season with earnings of £415,500 having claimed ranking titles at the English Open, Shanghai Masters and a sixth UK title that saw him equal Steve Davis' haul at the sport's second biggest ranking event in the 1980s.

O'Sullivan has won 28 out of his past 30 matches, and is looking ominously good as he breezed into the last 32 of the Glasgow tournament.

The only time he has broken sweat this week are on his morning runs.

"I'm going through the motions at the moment, using this as practice and trying to get my game to a more consistent level if not a higher one," said O'Sullivan.

"When it is right it is fantastic, but when it isn't you have to keep working on that kind of stuff. I've been same the whole of my career so this is nothing new.

"If you are not happy, you have to tinker with things. When you are playing too many tournaments, you get into bad habits. You can only really groove them in on the practice table."

O'Sullivan is arguably playing at a higher level than when he won the last of his five world titles in 2013, but admits he is not striving for perfection on the green baize.

"You can't perfect it, but you can always increase your chances of having better cue ball control," said O'Sullivan.

"The only way to do that is to work on things. The white ball doesn't automatically get there. You have to instruct it to get there.

"You have to do things correctly to make it get from A to B more efficiently.

"I don't want to be perfect, just decent. And solid.

"I'm a better competitor than I used to be, probably not a better player. Just a bit more patient. I don't throw the towel in as much.

"I used to get a bit bored and fed up because I wanted to get home. But not I try my hardest every time I am out there."

O'Sullivan will meet Li Hang or Jamie Curtis-Barrett on Thursday for a last-16 spot.