Shaun Murphy crashed out of Championship League Snooker with zero factors on Tuesday in Leicester.
The champion two years in the past displayed loads of rust in his first outing again for the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
Murphy was crushed 3-1 by Alfie Burden in his opening fixture and suffered comparable losses to each Robbie McGuigan and Bulcsu Revesz after.
Burden, taking part as a top-up novice participant having misplaced his tour card on the finish of final season, ended up profitable Group 3.
A decent round-robin part noticed Burden, McGuigan, and Revesz all end on six factors upon profitable two and dropping one in every of their three matches.
However the world seniors champion’s barely superior body distinction to the opposite two was the figuring out issue.
It was rather more simple in Group 22 the place Matthew Selt comfortably superior within the competitors with a 100% document.
The Englishman orchestrated a hat-trick of 3-1 success to safe 9 factors and remove Scott Donaldson, Umut Dikme, and Fergal Quinn.
Burden and Selt be a part of Stephen Maguire and Yao Pengcheng who managed to make it by to Stage Two on Monday’s opening day of play.
Earlier than the subsequent part of the rating occasion can happen, there are 28 extra teams in Stage One on the Mattioli Area.
On Wednesday, it’ll be a battle of Welsh and Chinese language gamers in Group 25 as Ryan Day, Matthew Stevens, Xu Yichen, and Lan Yuhao lock horns.
Yuan Sijun fronts Group 18 alongside Sanderson Lam, Alexander Ursenbacher, and Stuart Carrington.
Championship League Snooker represents the opening rating occasion of the fledgling 2025/26 snooker season.
The general winner on July twenty third will take residence £33,000 price of prize cash and rating factors, plus a ticket to the profitable Champion of Champions invitational later this yr.
Tuesday’s Outcomes
Group 3
Alfie Burden 3-1 Shaun Murphy
Bulcsu Revesz 3-1 Robbie McGuigan
Alfie Burden 3-0 Bulcsu Revesz
Robbie McGuigan 3-1 Shaun Murphy
Robbie McGuigan 3-1 Alfie Burden
Bulcsu Revesz 3-1 Shaun Murphy
Desk
1. Alfie Burden – 6 factors
2. Robbie McGuigan – 6 factors
3. Bulcsu Revesz – 6 factors
4. Shaun Murphy – 0 factors
Group 22
Matthew Selt 3-1 Umut Dikme
Scott Donaldson 3-1 Fergal Quinn
Scott Donaldson 2-2 Umut Dikme
Matthew Selt 3-1 Fergal Quinn
Umut Dikme 3-0 Fergal Quinn
Matthew Selt 3-1 Scott Donaldson
Desk
1. Matthew Selt – 9 factors
2. Umut Dikme – 4 factors
3. Scott Donaldson – 4 factors
4. Fergal Quinn – 0 factors
Featured photograph credit score: WST
