{"id":48890,"date":"2026-03-19T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/world-open-ronnie-osullivan-sees-off-shaun-murphy-to-reach-150th-ranking-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:06:29","slug":"world-open-ronnie-osullivan-sees-off-shaun-murphy-to-reach-150th-ranking-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/world-open-ronnie-osullivan-sees-off-shaun-murphy-to-reach-150th-ranking-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"World Open: Ronnie O’Sullivan sees off Shaun Murphy to reach 150th ranking quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ronnie O’Sullivan produced a superb display to beat Shaun Murphy 5-3 and reach the quarter-finals of the World Open in Yushan.<\/b><\/p>\n

After O’Sullivan’s 96 break in the first frame, Murphy hit back with a 139 in the second before edging ahead.<\/p>\n

But seven-time world champion O’Sullivan responded with runs of 77 and 121 to retake the lead.<\/p>\n

Although Murphy drew level again, O’Sullivan produced further breaks of 89 and 76 to see off his fellow Englishman and advance to his 150th ranking quarter-final.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old will face Wales’ Ryan Day, who defeated Latvia’s Artemijs Zizins 5-4 in the last eight on Friday.<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen is also through to the quarter-finals, recording a 5-0 win over Zhou Yuelong of China.<\/p>\n

He will face Wu Yize, also of China, for a place in the semi-finals after the 22-year-old came through 5-2 against 2024 world champion Kyren Wilson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Ronnie O’Sullivan produced a superb display to beat Shaun Murphy 5-3 and reach the quarter-finals of the World Open in Yushan. After O’Sullivan’s 96 break in the first frame, Murphy hit back with a 139 in the second before edging ahead. But seven-time world champion O’Sullivan responded with runs of 77 and 121 to retake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[4427,13489,288,9617,8079,5327,1652,9616,3564,2432,510],"class_list":["post-48890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-150th","tag-murphy","tag-open","tag-osullivan","tag-quarterfinal","tag-ranking","tag-reach","tag-ronnie","tag-sees","tag-shaun","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48892,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions\/48892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}