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Murphy becomes Premier League Champion for first time

RONNIE O'SULLIVAN 3-7 SHAUN MURPHY
O'Sullivan's scores first
9-119 (Murphy 111), 36-87 (O'Sullivan 35, Murphy 38, 32), 11-100 (Murphy 40, 31), 65-51 (O'Sullivan 34), 88-0 (O'Sullivan 88), 67-61 (O'Sullivan 49, Murphy 34), 27-75 (Murphy 33), 3-126 (Murphy 47, 75), 0-63 (Murphy 63), 67-75 (O'Sullivan 67, Murphy 67).

SHAUN Murphy has won the PartyCasino.com Premier League Snooker competition for the first time in his career. Murphy claimed the trophy with a 7-3 victory over defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in front of a capacity crowd at the Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk.

Murphy raced into a 3-0 lead but O'Sullivan won the next three frames to go in at 3-3 at the interval but Murphy clinched four successive frames to take the title.

"It feels amazing," said a delighted Murphy, who earns £51,000 for his success and ends O'Sullivan's hopes of winning the tournament for the sixth successive year. "It would have been a great achievement for Ronnie to win it six years in a row and he deserves a lot of credit to win it five years in a row. After losing a 3-0 lead I was about to go into panic mode had it not been for my manager Brandon who said the right things to me and I might've twitched up had it not been for that. To go 3-0 up against Ronnie is almost the position you don't want to be in as you know he will hunt you down."

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