Murphy Moves Into World Championship Last 16

Reigning Masters champion Shaun Murphy moved into nan past 16 of nan World Snooker Championship pinch a 10-4 triumph successful a high-quality lucifer pinch Crucible debutant Daniel Wells.

Murphy, 42, is aiming to triumph a 2nd world title 20 years aft his first occurrence but could look world number 1 Judd Trump successful nan adjacent round.

Against Welsh qualifier Wells, nan Sheffield crowd were treated to a good show of snooker pinch each framework seeing a break of astatine slightest 50, including six hundreds of years - 3 from each player.

Murphy won nan Masters successful January and is looking to go nan first subordinate since Trump successful 2018-19 to triumph that tourney and nan World Championship successful nan aforesaid season.

After Tuesday's first session, Murphy held a 7-2 lead and extended that pinch a break of 53, to move 2 frames from victory.

But Wells, 49th successful nan world, made fantabulous breaks of 115 and 68 to propulsion 2 frames back, earlier Murphy moved 1 framework distant pinch a superb tally of 133.

He past clinched nan triumph pinch a break of 71 successful nan last frame.

Trump leads China's Zhou Yuelong 6-3 successful their first-round tie, which will beryllium completed connected Wednesday evening (19:30 BST).