{"id":241883,"date":"2026-01-13T03:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:15:15","slug":"defending-masters-champion-murphy-makes-shock-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241883\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Masters champion Murphy makes shock exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Shaun Murphy is out of the Masters after a shock 6-2 loss to China&#8217;s Wu Yize on the opening day of this year\u2019s tournament at Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Wu, the world number 13, dominated from the outset and won the opening three frames, recording a superb break of 137 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed Murphy rallied briefly but, with a highest break of only 49, could not get back into the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy told BBC Sport: &#8220;I\u2019ve looked forward to today for about a year, walking out as champion, but I enjoyed it for about the first 10 minutes and the rest of the match was highly unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t play well at all. It\u2019s possibly my worst performance of my season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Shaun Murphy is out of the Masters after a shock 6-2 loss to China&#8217;s Wu Yize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-241883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241883","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=241883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}