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| Neil Robertson secured a spot in the final of the International Championship with a 9-5 victory over Shaun Murphy. Image: Eurosport |
Shaun Murphy missed out on a second successive ranking event
final after he was defeated 9-5 by Neil Robertson. Murphy reached the semi-finals
at the Shanghai Masters but lost to John Higgins and had performed well again at
this event but was still unable to reach the final. Robertson will face Judd
Trump in tomorrow’s final in a bid to claim the £125,000 winners’ prize.
The opening session of the final brought some high-quality
snooker with the eight frames taking not much longer than two hours. The
Australian won the first frame but Murphy hit back with three on the bounce to
take a 3-1 lead into the interval. However, Robertson hit back with a
magnificent 142 break, currently the tournament’s highest break and won the remaining
three frames in the session to lead 5-3.
The second session was far less fluent with neither player getting into much of a rhythm during the evening. Murphy closed the gap to 5-4 and 6-5 by winning frames nine and eleven but Robertson won the other two frames to preserve his two frame lead at the interval. He also sneaked a closely-fought thirteenth frame to go 8-5 up and wrapped up victory by taking frame 14.
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