{"id":76267,"date":"2025-10-12T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76267\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:33:07","slug":"shaun-murphy-beats-gary-wilson-and-will-face-mark-williams-in-xian-grand-prix-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76267\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Murphy beats Gary Wilson and will face Mark Williams in Xi&#8217;an Grand Prix final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Murphy beat Gary Wilson 6-4 at the Xi&#8217;an Grand Prix to book his place in a second consecutive ranking final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face Mark Williams &#8211; who at the age of 50, is looking surpass the late Ray Reardon as the oldest ranking event winner, a record that has stood since 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murphy, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cy85l2e2j5xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the British Open <\/a>for the first time in September, fought back from 3-1 down to win the semi-final and set up a meeting with three-time world champion Williams on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42-year-old had three 130-plus breaks on the way to victory over his fellow Englishman, finishing in style with a 141 in the clinching frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt I hadn&#8217;t done that much wrong at 3-1 down,&#8221; said Murphy, who has won his past 13 matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This vein of form won&#8217;t last forever but I am enjoying it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played well in Brentwood, played well in Cheltenham and I was delighted to lift the trophy. Here this week, I&#8217;ve got another chance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I have got one of the best of all time in my way and he will give me nothing. We have had some great matches over the years and I am sure tomorrow will be no different.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun Murphy beat Gary Wilson 6-4 at the Xi&#8217;an Grand Prix to book his place in a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-76267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267","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=76267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}