Sometimes an amateur will stitch up a professional
Lovely little tantrum from world number six Shaun Murphy, who reacted to a shock defeat by insisting his low-ranked opponent shouldn’t have been in the tournament in the first place.
Murphy (career earnings: £4 million) claimed amateur Si Juhai had an unfair advantage because he doesn’t have the pressure of earning money from the tournament.
He seethed: “He played like a man who does not have a care in the world, because he does not have a care in the world. It is not fair, it is not right.
“I feel extremely hard done by that I have lost to someone who shouldn’t even be in the building.”
Hopefully poor Shaun can find solace in his main hobby – golf. He plays to a high standard, and in 2019 managed to edge out several struggling pros to book a spot in the qualifiers for The Open… as an amateur!
