{"id":930400,"date":"2026-05-01T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930400\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:17:24","slug":"world-snooker-championship-2026-live-watch-john-higgins-vs-shaun-murphy-wu-yize-vs-mark-allen-in-semi-final-action-stream-scores-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930400\/","title":{"rendered":"World Snooker Championship 2026 LIVE: Watch John Higgins vs Shaun Murphy &#038; Wu Yize vs Mark Allen in semi-final action &#8211; stream, scores, results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Higgins and Murphy will definitely improve&#8217;published at 10:04 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:04 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Higgins 4-4 Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6dc5fbe8-36cd-487b-b7f4-0fbc4a3bcb7c.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Stephen Hendry<\/strong><br \/>Seven-time world champion, speaking after the first session<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a funny way, Shaun will be not too disappointed, because he&#8217;s not played well and he&#8217;s still not behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John might have played better, and then Shaun might have been punished for his mistakes, but he&#8217;s not been punished severely and it&#8217;s honours even.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has to get better than it was today [Thursday], it wasn&#8217;t a great session. John&#8217;s cue ball was pretty loose for him and Shaun missed too many easy balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players will definitely improve. We have seen throughout the championship John Higgins gets better as the match goes on, and it is something he has done his whole career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Murphy will be disappointed after the heights he hit against Zhao Xintong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Higgins and Murphy will definitely improve&#8217;published at 10:04 BST 10:04 BST Higgins 4-4 Murphy Stephen HendrySeven-time world champion,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-930400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116498572908693245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}