J HIGGINS 18-9 S MURPHY - Higgins wins Snooker World Championship

Monday, 04 May 2009 20:06 administrator

higgins wins snooker world championship at the crucible

John Higgins had few problems on Monday in wrapping up a crushing 18-9 victory over Shaun Murphy to win his third world snooker title in dominant style.

The 33-year-old Scot added to his 1998 and 2007 crowns and joins a list of three-time winners with John Spencer and 2008 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Murphy rarely threatened with Higgins doing much of the damage on Sunday which included two 128 breaks and a 91.

Leading 16-8, the 'wizard of Wishaw' took little time to secure his win.

From the BBC

Result
John Higgins (Sco) 18-9 Shaun Murphy (Eng)
83-0 (78) 85-6 (52) 79-20 7-83 (58) 50-96 0-114 (109) 49-63 69-34 (50) 98-1 (57) 12-87 (52) 70-51 95-11 (95) 70-45 132-0 (128) 82-0 (51) 128-6 (128) 64-42 0-91 (91) 60-49 76-43 28-70 49-79 (79) 94-26 (61) 80-59 (Higgins 52) 106-21 (58) 0-78 (59) 105-0 (73)

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J HIGGINS 18-9 S MURPHY - Higgins wins Snooker World Championship
May 05 2009 09:12:40

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Congratulations, a very well deserved win to John!

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Snooker_Sam

Re:J HIGGINS 18-9 S MURPHY - Higgins wins Snooker World Championship
May 05 2009 17:07:33

He looked the much better player in the whole tournament.

I backed him from the start. He deserves a 3rd World Title to his name. Outplayed Murphy In all departments in the final.

Full credit to Murphy aswell though, proving to the critics that he is capable of winning another world title so quickly after his 1st. He had all the ingredients to win his second world title but he had 1 obsticle in his way, goes by the name of John Higgins.

Congrats John! Enjoy the moment.

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