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Shaun Murphy
Murphy at the 2015 German Masters
Born
(1982-08-10) 10 August 1982 (age 41) Harlow, England
Sport country
England
Nickname
The Magician[1]
Professional
1998/1999, 2001–present
Highest ranking
3 (May 2007 – May 2010)
Current ranking
7 (as of 7 May 2024)
Maximum breaks
8
Century breaks
656 (as of 6 May 2024)
Tournament wins
Ranking
12
Minor-ranking
4
World Champion
2005
Shaun Peter Murphy[2] (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting.
Born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, Murphy turned professional in 1998. His 2005 victory at the World Championship was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to win the title after Alex Higgins and Terry Griffiths. Since then, he has been runner-up at the World Championship three times, in 2009, 2015, and 2021. Murphy has won twelve ranking titles, placing him tenth on the all time list of ranking tournament victories. He has also won eleven non-ranking tournaments, including the 2015 Masters, which completed his career Triple Crown.
Murphy has won over £4 million in prize money and has compiled more than 600 century breaks in his professional career, including eight maximum breaks. His highest world ranking was number three, which he maintained for three seasons following the 2007–08 season.
On 12 November 2017, Murphy won the Champion of Champions title beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final.[3] At the 2019 World Snooker Championship, Murphy became only the second person to perform a whitewash at the world championships, defeating Luo Honghao 10–0 in the opening round.[4]
^"Shaun Murphy". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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^"Champion of Champions: Shaun Murphy beats Ronnie O'Sullivan in final". BBC Sport. London. 13 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^"World Championship 2019: Mark Selby through after scare at the Crucible". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy...
competed as an amateur during the 2021–22 season, during which he defeated ShaunMurphy 6–5 in the first round of the 2021 UK Championship. After rejoining the...
Then after trailing 14–16, he won his semi-final match 17–16 against ShaunMurphy, in another deciding frame that he took with a 64 break. In the final...
won the tournament: Alex Higgins in 1972, Terry Griffiths in 1979, and ShaunMurphy in 2005. Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan have each won seven times...
lost in the second round to Anthony McGill 12–13. Mark Selby defeated ShaunMurphy 18–15 in the final to win his fourth world title and the 20th ranking...
four of his matches at the event. ShaunMurphy won five frames in a row as he defeated Lyu Haotian 10–5. Murphy, who had lost his previous two first...
Choice Award. In 2017, Highmore began producing and starring as Dr. ShaunMurphy in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor, for which he was nominated for...
all time. At 38, Bingham won the 2015 World Championship, defeating ShaunMurphy 18–15 in the final. The oldest first-time world champion in snooker history...
world champion Neil Robertson, Ding Junhui, Mark Selby, Ali Carter, ShaunMurphy, Jimmy White, and Ronnie O'Sullivan. Brecel was defeated by eventual...
O'Sullivan lost in the quarter-finals 11–13 against Peter Ebdon. Qualifier ShaunMurphy won his first ranking title by defeating Matthew Stevens 18–16 in the...
defeating two former champions in succession; provisional World Number 1 ShaunMurphy 13–4 in the second round and then 2002 winner Peter Ebdon 13–9 in the...
match it was Lisowski who let a 4–2 lead slip, and lost 4–5 to ShaunMurphy, with Murphy stating that snooker had seen the future with Lisowski's performances...
semi-finals of the World Championship for the first time, before losing to ShaunMurphy 14–17, after recovering from 7–14 behind to level at 14–14. In October...
maximum breaks in his career. In 2022, he became the second player, after ShaunMurphy, to compile three maximums in a single calendar year, having made 147s...
competitive 147 along the way, he was heavily defeated in the final by ShaunMurphy 9–1. He was runner-up at the 2020 Gibraltar Open in March; after defeating...
the 16th first-time champion unable to defend his title at the venue. ShaunMurphy, the 2005 winner, met Stuart Bingham in the final. Bingham, who was given...
Championship. He defeated Joe Swail, Ian McCulloch, Mark Williams and ShaunMurphy to reach the final, where he was defeated by Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–2....
Mark Allen and progressed 17–13 . Higgins recorded an 18–9 victory over ShaunMurphy in the final to become the ninth player to win the World title three...
addition to performing solo shows. Fuller was replaced by ShaunMurphy in September 1993. Murphy had sung on all of the recent Little Feat albums and throughout...
was again runner-up at the 2005 World Championship, losing 16–18 to ShaunMurphy in the final, having been up 10–6, and then 12–11 with only the final...
against Mark Allen. John Higgins won his third World title by defeating ShaunMurphy 18–9 in the final. It was Higgins' 20th ranking title. Debutants at the...
Championship 2021 – Mark Selby wins fourth Crucible title with win over ShaunMurphy". Eurosport. Retrieved 12 August 2021. "Then and Now: John Spencer"....
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