Chinese player leads 10-7 after opening two sessions
Murphy seeking second title 21 years after first win
With celebrities aplenty in attendance and a protester bursting on to the hallowed Crucible floor, at one stage on Sunday there threatened to be more headlines off the baize than on it during the opening half of snooker’s two-day extravaganza to crown its world champion.
But by Sunday evening and as the halfway point of the final between Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize approached, both competitors ensured all the talk will be about what is to follow on Monday afternoon and evening inside one of sport’s most famous buildings.
There is history to be made irrespective of who triumphs at some stage on Monday. If it is Murphy who claims his second world title, that would break the record for the longest gap between world titles by some distance: Murphy’s maiden win was way back in 2005 when he was only 22.
