Results for tag: Shaun Murphy
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 3, 2010 at 03:42:29 PM
All the talk in snooker at the moment is for faster formats, fewer frames and quicker matches but the UK Championship, with its two session contests, will provide a significant test. It is for this reason that, since its first staging in 1977, it has produced so few shock winners, and the 2010 event seems likely to end in victory for one of the usual suspects.
Last season I tipped Ding Junhui, who duly did the business. This season I'm tempted by [b]Shaun Murphy[/b], the champion two years ago and always a dangerman, even though his lack of consistency sometimes lets him down. This was evident in the Premier League last weekend. Having played superbly to beat Marco Fu in the semi-finals, his game went to pieces in the final and he was hammered by Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Murphy, though,...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 16, 2010 at 11:22:51 AM
[b]The three-time world champion made a successful return to the snooker scene with a win at the Euro Tour Players Championship. There are less than three weeks until the UK Snooker Championship so has Higgins come back at just the right time?[/b]
A little over six months since [b]John Higgins'[/b] life was turned upside down amid allegations of match fixing, the talented Scot returned to action in the [b]Euro Tour Players Championship[/b] in Germany and duly left the city of Hamm as a champion once more.
Higgins was playing in his first event since April and was merely hoping to blow away a few cobwebs, but the old saying "Form is temporary, but class is permanent" may never have been more appropriate as the 35-year-old eased to a 4-2 victory over [b]Shaun Murphy[/b] in Sunday's...