Shaun Murphy has climbed up to third place in the latest world rankings after capturing the Maplin UK Championship title.
The 26-year-old Harlow-born player won his biggest title since the 2005 World Championship by beating Hong Kong’s Marco Fu 10-9 in a thrilling final in Telford.
Murphy had a slow start to the season, failing to win a match in the first four ranking events, but his victory in snooker’s second biggest ranking tournament has seen him jump from sixth to third in the latest list.
“I've dreamt of winning the big titles and no amount of money can buy your name on the trophy. I've now won the two biggest ranking events, and I hope there are more titles to come,” said Murphy, who became only the tenth player to have won the World and UK titles.
Fu missed out on the second ranking title of his career but is still up three places to No 6.
Losing semi-finalist Stephen Maguire has narrowed the gap on leader Ronnie O’Sullivan to less than 6000 points, while Ali Carter also reached the semis and moves into the top four.
Mark Williams boosted his chances of regaining a place among the official top 16 by making the quarter-finals, he’s up three places to 12th. Stephen Lee got to the same stage and flies seven spots to 25th.
Martin Gould reached the last 32 of a ranking event for the second time in his career and jumps six places to No 56.
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