‘I was on it from the first ball’published at 12:54 BST<\/p>\n
12:54 BST<\/p>\n
Xiao 3-13 Murphy<\/p>\n
Shaun Murphy speaking to BBC Sport, after reaching the last eight of the World Snooker Championship: “Delighted. Great lead at 6-2 and that last frame of the first session was massive yesterday. Mathematically it is possible to win with a session to spare but you don’t think it’ll happen. I kept getting those little chances and am delighted with how I played. <\/p>\n
“It doesn’t happen often because everyone is so good. I am thrilled with it. We are going to ship out of Sheffield for a few days and go home and get on my practice table at home. I can do as much as I want instead of trying to dodge in for a half hour at the Crucible. I can spend the next few days getting ready for what is going to be a big game.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if I would use the word desperate but it’s very close [on wanting to win a second world title]. It’s been 21 years since that totally clueless 22-year-old kid walked in and nicked the trophy from everybody and I have come back every year trying my hardest to repeat that magic and not been able to.<\/p>\n
“I got out of jail in the first round and you could make an argument that I should not even be sat here. I was on it from the first ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I was on it from the first ball’published at 12:54 BST 12:54 BST Xiao 3-13 Murphy Shaun Murphy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-548228","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}