to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\nIn a separate episode, Murphy hurled down his rest in frustration after missing a green in the second frame, having apparently been put off by a ringing mobile phone.<\/p>\n
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A protester is stopped by the referee during Wu Yize’s and Shaun Murphy’s match(Image: \u00a9 2026 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n
The disturbance prompted Spencer to address the crowd at the close of the frame, cautioning: “Make sure your phones are on silent, or switched off. Don’t be the person that has to be thrown out.”<\/p>\n
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Shaun Murphy during his match against Wu Yize on day sixteen of the Halo World Snooker Championship 2026 at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield(Image: \u00a9 2026 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n
Wu maintained his composure to compile a 61 break in the disrupted third frame and establish a 3-0 advantage, before Murphy got off the mark with an 85 in the final frame ahead of the interval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize’s World Snooker Championship final at the Crucible got off to a rowdy start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,10380,16,15],"class_list":["post-935167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-snooker","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116511203099580449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935167","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=935167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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