‘It’s right that I stand aside' – Shaun Murphy explains decision to quit snooker role

Former snooker satellite champion Shaun Murphy has resigned from his presumption arsenic WPBSA Players Chairman, soon aft winning the Masters for the 2nd clip successful his career

Snooker prima Shaun Murphy has decided to measurement down from his presumption arsenic WPBSA Players Chairman pursuing his caller triumph astatine the Masters.

The 42-year-old joined the committee successful December 2023 and took connected the relation of president by May. Last month, Murphy clinched his 2nd Masters title, overcoming Kyren Wilson with a 10-7 scoreline successful the final, and helium adjacent notched up a stunning 147-break against Mark Allen successful the semi-finals astatine Alexandra Palace.

After a bid of underwhelming performances, the ex-world champion opted to get progressive with the WPBSA Players committee successful 2023. However, Murphy revealed that the Masters made him realise helium was acceptable to ore afloat connected his crippled erstwhile again.

"There's nary mode of maine sugarcoating it," Murphy admitted connected his OneFourSeven podcast. "The triumph astatine the Masters a mates of weeks agone has truly shone a torch for me, into my ain crippled and self-belief, that I tin really inactive bash it astatine the precise cutting edge, apical extremity of the sport.

"I had started to deliberation that that had gone. So, I started to look astatine different areas successful the crippled wherever I could marque a difference. That triumph has fixed maine a pat connected the enarthrosis to say, 'you cognize what? You tin inactive bash this'."

Still susceptible of winning large competitions, Murphy admitted that it felt close for idiosyncratic other to regenerate him connected the WPBSA Players board. "In the end, you can't beryllium each things to each people," Murphy added.

"You can't beryllium everyplace each astatine once, and it's not a occupation I'm consenting to springiness fractional of myself to. It's not a work – looking aft the members, representing them, and warring connected their behalf – that I'm consenting to springiness 75 per cent to it.

"I'm either successful oregon I'm out. At the minute, I'm not capable to correspond them arsenic good arsenic I privation and beryllium arsenic committed arsenic I privation to. So I deliberation it's close that I basal speech and let idiosyncratic other to instrumentality the reins."

On Tuesday, the WPBSA confirmed that Murphy had resigned arsenic Players president effectual immediately, besides vacating his relation arsenic a non-executive subordinate director. In his parting words, Murphy called the presumption a "great honour" but pointed to an accrued workload arsenic the crushed for his departure.

Despite clinching the Championship League rubric successful July 2023, Murphy struggled to find consistency, failing to suffice for the main gully successful fractional of his consequent 14 ranked tournaments and lone making it past the 2nd circular connected 2 occasions.

Nevertheless, caller displays person served arsenic a reminder that the world No.6 remains a formidable unit astatine the snooker table.