{"id":34,"date":"2022-03-10T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/snooker\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:25:00","slug":"shaun-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/shaun-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shaun Peter Murphy<\/strong> is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who won the&nbsp;2005 World Championship. Nicknamed &#8220;The Magician&#8221;, Murphy is noted for his straight&nbsp;cue&nbsp;action and his long potting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in&nbsp;Harlow, Essex and raised in&nbsp;Irthlingborough, North Northamptonshire, Murphy turned professional in 1998. His victory at the 2005&nbsp;World Championship&nbsp;was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to win the title after&nbsp;Alex Higgins&nbsp;and&nbsp;Terry Griffiths. His other&nbsp;ranking tournament&nbsp;victories came in the&nbsp;2007 Malta Cup, the&nbsp;2008 UK Championship, the&nbsp;2011 Players Tour Championship Grand Final&nbsp;and the&nbsp;2014 World Open, while he reached a second World Championship final in&nbsp;2009, a third in&nbsp;2015&nbsp;and a fourth in&nbsp;2021. He has also won seven non-ranking tournaments, including the&nbsp;2015 Masters, which completed his career&nbsp;Triple Crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murphy has won over \u00a34 million in prize money and has compiled more than 500&nbsp;century breaks&nbsp;in his professional career. His highest&nbsp;world ranking&nbsp;was number three, which he maintained for three seasons following&nbsp;2007\u201308.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 12 November 2017, Murphy won the&nbsp;Champion of Champions&nbsp;title beating&nbsp;Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan&nbsp;in the final.&nbsp;At the&nbsp;2019 World Snooker Championship, Murphy became only the second person to perform a whitewash at the world championships, defeating&nbsp;Luo Honghao&nbsp;10\u20130 in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Peter Murphy is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who won the&nbsp;2005 World Championship. Nicknamed &#8220;The Magician&#8221;, Murphy is noted for his straight&nbsp;cue&nbsp;action and his long potting. Born in&nbsp;Harlow, Essex and raised in&nbsp;Irthlingborough, North Northamptonshire, Murphy turned professional in 1998. His victory at the 2005&nbsp;World Championship&nbsp;was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}