{"id":149321,"date":"2025-11-20T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:15:09","slug":"murphy-whitewashes-osullivan-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149321\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy whitewashes O&#8217;Sullivan in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan was whitewashed 4-0 by Shaun Murphy to fall at the first hurdle in the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy took little more than an hour to knock out the 49-year-old, who was never able to get going.<\/p>\n<p>A clever plant set Murphy on the way to a frame-winning break of 53 in the opener and a missed pink to the middle cost O\u2019Sullivan the second.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy hit a classy 93 to move 3-0 up and O\u2019Sullivan missed the easiest of straight yellows to gift-wrap the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy will face reigning world champion Zhao Xintong in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Mark Allen also has a bye to the last eight, where he will face John Higgins or Ding Junhui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan was whitewashed 4-0 by Shaun Murphy to fall at the first hurdle in the Riyadh Season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-149321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}