Shaun Murphy
Shaun Murphy

Gibraltar Open: Shaun Murphy loses to Lu Ning


Former world champion Shaun Murphy was dumped out of the Gibraltar Open by Chinese outsider Lu Ning.

Murphy, ranked 66 places above his 25-year-old opponent, hit breaks of 83 and 68 to haul a two-frame deficit back to 2-2.

But Lu, who's best ranking finish came with a quarter-final place in India a fortnight ago, rattled in an 85 and a 115 to oust the world number 11.

Amateurs Oliver Brown and David Grace also reached the last 16, the latter beating another former Crucible winner, Peter Ebdon, 4-3 before sinking Chris Wakelin 4-1.

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