White knocks out Murphy in Bangkok

Eurosport - Fri, 10 Jul 15:21:00 2009

Jimmy White beat former world champion Shaun Murphy 6-4 in the last 32 round of the Sangson 6-Reds World Grand Prix in Bangkok.

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White barely made it into the knockout stage by finishing fourth in his group while in contrast Murphy won all but one of his games to top his group.

However, White got the better of Murphy on the day and even had a 6-reds maximum break of 75 and will now play defending champion Ricky Walden in the last 16.

Another former world champion, Peter Ebdon, is also out after he was beaten 6-1 by Judd Trump in their last 32 contest.

Mark Williams and Ken Doherty defeated Atthasit Mahitthi and Phaithoon Phonbun respectively to set up a meeting between the two former world champions in the last 16.

The winner of the event will receive approx £18,200.

Last 32 results

Mark King 6 Wael Talaat 1

Michael Holt 6 Noppadol Sangnil 3

Ricky Walden 6 Mohammed Sajjad 3

Jimmy White 6 Shaun Murphy 4

Mark Williams 6 Atthasit Mahitthi 2

Phaithoon Phonbun 4 Ken Doherty 6

Matthew Stevens 1 Stuart Bingham 6

Aditya Mehta 4 Issara Kachaiwong 6

Darren Morgan 4 Noppadon Noppachorn 6

Dave Harold 5 Barry Hawkins 6

Joe Perry 3 James Wattana 6

Fung Kwok Wai 1 Ryan Day 6

John Higgins 6 Supoj Saenla 4

Brendan O Donoghue 4 Thepchaiya Un Nooh 6

Mohammed Shehab 6 Nigel Bond 4

Peter Ebdon 1 Judd Trump 6

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  1. JIMMY WHITE THE BEST EVER SHAME HE NEVER WON THE WORLD­ BUT 6 TIMES IN FINAL IS BRILL
    KEEP IT UP JIMMY

    From Tommy P, on Sun 12 Jul 2:23PM
  2. JIMMY WHITE THE BEST EVER SHAME HE NEVER WON THE WORLD­ BUT 6 TIMES IN FINAL IS BRILL
    KEEP IT UP JIMMY

    From Tommy P, on Sun 12 Jul 2:22PM
  3. come on Jimmy, you can do it!!!

    From Joseph, on Fri 10 Jul 11:54AM
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