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Wu Yize beats Shaun Murphy in thrilling final frame to win World Snooker Championship

Wu Yize has won the World Snooker Championship final, beating Shaun Murphy 18-17, with a break of 85 in the deciding frame

The Guardian - UK

The lucky underpants that won Shaun Murphy his first world snooker title – and they weren’t his own

Murphy is trying to win a second World Snooker Championship title but a pair of underpants might have played a key role in his first, back in 2005

The Independent UK

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Veteran takes on first-time finalist at the Crucible

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Mark Allen’s moment of heartbreak defines Crucible semi-final classic for the ages

Allen had a simple black off the spot to reach his first World Snooker Championship final but devastatingly missed it as Wu Yize snuck through for victory

The Independent UK

Wu Yize into Crucible final as Mark Allen pays for missed black in dramatic semi

Wu set up a final against Shaun Murphy.

The Independent UK

Ghosts of the past await Shaun Murphy after epic World Championship semi-final win

Murphy battled back to beat John Higgins 17-15 in a Crucible classic but must overcome the spectre of three final defeats in order to finally lift a second World Snooker Championship title

The Independent UK

World Snooker Championship: Shaun Murphy beats John Higgins in thriller to reach fifth final

Murphy will play Mark Allen or Wu Yize in showpiece finale

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Shaun Murphy beats John Higgins in thriller to reach another Crucible final

Murphy is one win away from his second world title – 21 years after his first.

The Independent UK

Allen and Wu toil in 100-minute frame ‘embarrassment’, Higgins leads Murphy

Mark Allen and Wu Yize are level at 7-7 after the pair played out the longest frame in Crucible history, while John Higgins leads Shaun Murphy 13-11

The Guardian - UK

Mark Allen and Wu Yize level after longest frame in Crucible history

The session concluded with a bizarre 14th frame, which saw a cluster of eight reds jammed around a black on the edge of the pocket.

The Independent UK

From abject farce to mesmerising beauty – snooker shows its contrasting faces

A truly bizarre longest frame in World Snooker Championship history was labelled an ‘embarrassment’ by pundits before the Crucible’s other semi-final showed what makes the sport so captivating

The Independent UK

Mark Allen all square with Wu Yize after longest ever Crucible frame

The pair were confounded by the black blocking a cluster of reds over the corner pocket as frame 14 lasted an hour and 40 minutes.

The Independent UK

‘An embarrassment to snooker’: Pundits fume as Mark Allen and Wu Yize play out longest frame in Crucible history

The extraordinary frame lasted 100 minutes and 21 seconds as Allen and Wu engaged in a bizarre stalemate during their World Snooker Championship semi-final

The Independent UK

Shaun Murphy v Wu Yize live: Wonderkid Wu wins deciding frame thriller in remarkable World Snooker Championship final

Wu Yize became the second-youngest world snooker champion in history by beating Shaun Murphy 18-17 in a remarkable final at the Crucible

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Football drama awaits, F1 returns and it’s the World Snooker final – follow with us

Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports

The Independent UK

John Higgins’ secret weapon – that even snooker commentators don’t notice

Higgins is the oldest World Snooker Championship semi-finalist since 1985 and is level at 4-4 with Shaun Murphy after the first session of their last-four clash

The Independent UK

John Higgins defies age and Neil Robertson to edge closer to snooker history

Higgins became the oldest World Snooker Championship semi-finalist since 1985 by downing Robertson at the Crucible and now face Shaun Murphy trying to become the oldest finalist

The Independent UK

Impressive Shaun Murphy aims to ‘fake it until you make it’ all the way to world title

Eighth seed Murphy downed defending champion Zhao Xintong 13-10 in their quarter-final with a scintillating performance but insists he wasn’t necessarily as composed as he looked

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Shaun Murphy insists Crucible Curse will never be broken after crushing Zhao Xintong dream

No first-time World Snooker Championship winner has ever successfully defended their title and Zhao became the latest man to fail with a quarter-final loss to Murphy

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Robertson's hopes of a world semi-final berth snookered

Australian Neil Robertson pushed fellow former champ John Higgins all the way before losing a thrilling quarter-final at the world snooker championships.

The Independent UK

Ronnie O’Sullivan outlines main motivation to play next season after World Snooker Championship exit

O’Sullivan has been selective with the tournaments he has participated in over the past year

The Independent UK

Ex-champion hits out at Ronnie O’Sullivan’s choice of chalk at World Snooker Championship

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The Independent UK

Neil Robertson calls for ban on Ronnie O’Sullivan’s chalk: ‘All the players hate it’

O’Sullivan exited the World Snooker Championship after a 13-12 defeat to old rival John Higgins

AAP

Aussie through to snooker worlds quarters, top seed out

Australian cue master Neil Robertson has reached his first world championship quarter-final in five years, where a date with an all-time great awaits.

The Independent UK

Ronnie O’Sullivan had booked flight home before Crucible defeat to John Higgins

O’Sullivan expressed surprise that he managed to push his old rival to the brink in their thrilling second-round clash in Sheffield.

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