Ronnie O’Sullivan names two reasons behind Shaun Murphy’s Masters resurgence

Ronnie O’Sullivan felt Shaun Murphy benefited from the influences of his spouse Jo and his mentor Peter Ebdon connected his mode to the Masters rubric connected Sunday.

Murphy was superb passim the tourney astatine Alexandra Palace and lifted the trophy aft beating satellite champion Kyren Wilson 10-7 successful the final.

The Magician downed Gary Wilson, Neil Robertson and Mark Allen connected his mode to the final, making a 147 against the Pistol successful the semis arsenic helium produced immoderate of his champion stuff.

The 42-year-old past controlled the final, starring throughout, and winning the Masters for the 2nd clip successful his career, 10 years aft the first.

O’Sullivan was thoroughly impressed and credited some Murphy’s spouse Jo Rochell and erstwhile satellite champ Ebdon arsenic being important forces down the success.

‘He’s played large each week, deserves his victory, played fantastic,’ O’Sullivan said connected Eurosport. ‘You look astatine the breaks, scored very, precise heavy.

‘I deliberation Peter has evidently done large for Shaun and he’ll fancy his chances astatine the World Championship present due to the fact that he’s a large clip player, got bottle, got a large crippled but I besides deliberation successful your backstage beingness it’s important.

‘He seems precise settled present with this girl, you spot her with him astatine a batch of tournaments getting the balls retired for him and it’s bully to spot that she’s supporting everything helium does. If you’re blessed disconnected the array it tends to overspill onto the lucifer table, truthful things are large for him astatine the moment.’

On the summation of Ebdon to the Murphy camp, the Rocket said: ‘As a subordinate you person a weakness and if you tin squad up with idiosyncratic that tin code that weakness oregon astatine slightest amended it, you announcement them improvements erstwhile you’re successful large lucifer contention past you summation that spot of confidence.

‘I deliberation Peter has instilled a small spot of that into him and made him realise however important that is and however it tin crook matches.

‘That’s what Peter was large at. He wasn’t the astir talented subordinate but you would person to excavation him disconnected the table. Mentally helium was successful it from the archetypal changeable to the past shot. Having that laser absorption from commencement to decorativeness is truthful important.’

Murphy surely agrees with O’Sullivan, posting a connection of acknowledgment to some connected societal media.

‘It’s not conscionable astir what I bash successful the table, it’s radical down the scenes that assistance maine enactment grounded and focussed,’ Murphy wrote connected Instagram.

‘A immense convey you to my person and mentor, Peter Ebdon for making maine judge that winning is inactive successful my bones.

‘And of people my different fractional @jorochellmusic for putting up with me.’

Murphy volition look to proceed his awesome signifier astatine the German Masters successful Berlin adjacent week, taking connected Liam Graham successful his opening crippled connected Monday nighttime successful Berlin.

The Masters champ said of his week ahead: ‘No clip to rest, privation to get backmost connected the signifier table, support my crippled successful bully shape, I consciousness similar I’ve deed immoderate truly bully form, I privation to support it there, support the peddle down, support going for it.

‘Off to Berlin connected Sunday for the German Masters, truthful nary remainder for the wicked.’

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