Crowds returned to the Crucible for this year’s World Championship final (Zac Goodwin/PA)
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Seventeen days of the World Snooker Championship yielded its usual blend of drama and controversy – and finished in front of a near-capacity Crucible crowd.
But at the end of a long and Covid-affected season, what did this year’s tournament say about the state of the game and its most high-profile players?
Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy will contest today’s Betfred World Championship final but both came in for criticism after their semi-final wins at the Crucible.The three-times winner Selby prevailed
SNOOKER fans returning to Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre were treated to two classic quarter-finals as the tournament approaches its fabled one-table set-up.
Mark Selby dispatched Mark Williams 13 frames to three, while Kyren Wilson overcame one of the tournament favourites, Neil Robertson, 13-8.
But the quarter-finals between world No 1 Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy, and Anthony McGill versus Stuart Bingham were hard-fought epics that had a bit of everything for spectators.
McGill and Bingham needed every frame of the best of 25 quarter-final to determine a winner, while Murphy saw off pre-tournament favourite Trump within 24 frames.
2005 champion Murphy is playing some of his best snooker at this venue in years.
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