Shaun Murphy reacts after brushing aside Zhang Anda in opening round 🔥 | The Masters 2024

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Sean Allan described it as businessman like you must be pretty pumped with that really pleased you know because I’ve played quite well this year until the back end of last year the last month or so of 23 wasn’t great um felt like my game was sort of on the tilt a little

Bit you know and uh wasn’t getting the results um worked really hard over the festive period which is unlike me I would normally be a put the queue down and not play and it was so rewarding regardless of what else happens this week it was so rewarding to see that

Come out when it mattered the most you know could we talk about that just for a second very quickly sorry to interrupt you out is is because that diligence that you’re talking about we spoke earlier about perhaps Luca brell the other end of that Spectrum but for you

It’s about preparation well when I lost in the Scottish open you know on the way home I was checking to Robbie and we were trying to work out like where’s it going wrong you know what happened to the player who won three tournaments and where’s that Player gone last year and I

Just felt as if perhaps maybe I just wasn’t quite putting enough time in on my own maybe that was the first place to look maybe that was the first part of the puzzle rather than trying to reinvent the wheel um so I decided you know when I was back in in Dublin I

Would you know not go out all the time and not get involved in the parties and the Christmas spirit and all the rest of it and get stuck in on the table and uh even though my club the Stevens green Club in Dublin was closed um they give

Me the secret key and I was uh I was in there grafting we we had a brief chat just before um we Sean um we came on there and it’s so rewarding when you put the Graft in and then you make those clearances the two or three key

Clearances in a match that like you did tonight that’s the payoff isn’t it absolutely because you get your chance you work so hard for them and sometimes I’ve had matches where they don’t come you just sit down and watch a bit like I played Stuart here last year I didn’t

See a ball and I was lucky to get Nill um uh you know but sometimes it’s nice to it’s nice to have put the work in and when those balls go where you mean them to uh it’s very pleasing can I ask you about your queue situation so at the

Start of the Season obviously a lot was made as to bring multiple cues what did you bring for this tournament yeah well so what the research has shown me that you know I’m definitely on the right track with looking for more shape and more spin but I think that the

Conditions over here in this part of the world are only necessarily suited to the specs of my original queue and I’ve got the other two in in you know waiting till we go back out to the Far East I wasn’t out in maau over the Christmas

Period I haven’t been out there for a while but next time we go I’ll be taking them because I still believe there’s something in it in terms of technology and actually it’s a it’s a big question mark in the world snooker it caused a lot of controversy a lot of the older

Players the newer players were kind of saying well what is the solution but actually we were saying that Luca brassel actually had two was it the last season he had no um I think it was the year before last he come out to play and

He had two quees in the Masters and uh I think he I didn’t think he was going to use one to for certain shots another one for other shots I think Shan’s situation is different I think his conditions but you know I think you’re back to your

Original queue aren’t you yeah I altered it cuz I was looking for it to give me more what we call deflect I wanted more Spin and so I’ve had it shortened so effectively it’s thicker at the top end which gives you that little bit more

Spin um and that seems to have helped me I’m really pleased with it I’ve got cues now that are slightly thicker at home and as I say when we go to the Far East that spin is less so I’ll reach for Q2 or three and I’ll get the same spin as I

Get here out there that’s the that’s the theory man thank you for that they call you the magician you’re also a showman how much do you relish being out there because Ronnie was tell in an interview said he doesn’t like the rowdiness necessarily of the support he sometimes gets I get

The sense that you’re the opposite well I I’m not sure any of us maybe this man here uh have ever had the support that Ronny gets you know to to that level um I I I’m very thankful for the support I get and I always get a great you know

Welcome in every Arena we play in uh the crowd here are very respectful uh they are a little more boisterous uh than the average UK crowd but is it that’s part of the what makes this tournament so special and for the 16 players that are lucky enough to be in the draw every

Year it’s magic you know you wouldn’t be anywhere else give us a sense as well of of that what it’s actually like out there for a player I mean I know I’ve been looking up to playing this like Jimmy and it’s totally different isn’t it it’s it it’s totally different you

Know and they say it’s it’s the cliche isn’t anyone could beat anybody but it’s it’s it’s it gets said because it’s true and every single one of these ties could be a final of a of an event how well has Zang Ander done to get in this tournament you know from a standing

Start this season that’s a a reflection of his success this year a proper play fully deserved um he’s he’s a complete mirror image of the Zang Ander from last season I’m not sure what they’re feeding him in Sheffield but I could do with some of it myself yeah right it’s been a

Fairy tale story and by the way this is the first time I’ve seen your Blazer your waist coat without the crown because you’ve completed you’ve won all three of the trip crowns yeah well there was a there was a funny thing like you know uh wst wanted us to wear those

Crowns um you know a few of us liked it and a few of us didn’t U there was rumors a few of them multi multi multi- winners wanted multi crowns to represent how many they’d won I thought it was it was a little bit conspicuous for me

Which says a lot with some of my suits and some of the gear I wear if I thought it was conspicuous but um no I I think enough is made of the whole Triple Crown thing I’m not sure we need it in blazing on our on our gear you know do you have

The sparkling one with you oh I do Alan it’s always there about that is that