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Selby beats Murphy to capture UK title

WORLD No. 1 Mark Selby defeated close friend and fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy 10-6 to win the UK Championship title on Sunday.

The players had been locked at 4-4 at the end of the afternoon session in the best-of-19 frame final, before world No. 1 Selby edged into a 6-5 lead in the evening.

Murphy won the next frame but Selby swept the following four to claim the biggest title of his career.

"It means a great deal. It makes it even more special to beat someone of Shaun's class," Selby told the BBC. "It was a strange game, it was not pretty. I was twitching all over the place."

Sunday's final was the first all-English affair since 1992.



 

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