🎩 Shaun Murphy admits he is ‘more aggressive’ on the table after win vs Lisowski | The Masters 2024

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Welc commiserations to Jack lazowski congratulations to Shawn Murphy the second man through to the Masters semifinals where you’ll be facing Ron O Sullivan from shot one there was a statement of intention yeah do you know I think it’s just something that you know maybe finally with age I’ve learned

That what my best strength is is to just play like I did when I was 20 and you know I’ve been on this long journey of learning and trying to become a more complete player and I now can do the other stuff but uh I like to get on my

Toes now get the balls open and uh put them in the pockets as quickly as POS it sounds easy does it yeah it does it does sound easy but that’s how you played when you won the World Championships back then wasn’t it it was just free free flow go for everything within

Reason like but yeah absolutely I think what one of one of the big things that’s happened for me is that and I take a lot of criticism for it I am aware of it but obviously you know doing my pundit tree for the other channel um I get to

Analyze the game now as if I’m one of the analysts and I Lear I’ve learned so much in the years that I’ve been doing it uh I learned so much from the UK championships just gone being sat in the coms box being sat in the studio

Watching the greats and how they do it and what are they doing that I’m not doing and I’ve work so hard over Christmas and the festive period trying to find what are they doing that I’m not and all of that couple two three years I’ve been doing that punditry I’ve

Learned so much about the game and I’m continuing to learn and it’s made me a better player for example getting on my toes getting up to it playing with Pace playing with more aggression going for your shots i’ I’d started to go a little bit careful a bit cautious my shot time

In the uks dipped to nearly 30 seconds like that’s ridiculously slow for anyone for me that’s really slow as well and I just realized geez I’ve got to get on with it and I’m much better when I get on my toes I bounce around the table and I play with aggression and attacking

Like I did from being 11 years of age that was the Sha that played in the Wily Thorn snooker Club all those years ago in the under 15s under 19s um not the the really pedestrian boring checking every shot three times get on your toes

Get them in the pocket and let’s get on with it there was a really good example of it tonight I love what Sean’s saying there do you know what it is R pick your moments to be aggressive if the Go’s not good like see the last shot of the match

The black down the cushion horrible safety shot right what’s the alternative to that let’s press let’s go for it cuz it’s the right thing to do the safety shots nasty isn’t it so the move the balls tell you what shot to play ultimately if you’re thinking properly and if you’re thinking properly like

Shawn was at the very tail end of the match it’s okay the safety shot’s no good to you let’s press and it goes good decision so decisions that we was been speaking about in here all week decisions these guys but what I I’ve been very guilty in the last even with

Winning tournaments you know I won three tournaments last year even with that I’d slipped into second third gear i’ I’d gone very slow you know my ref counter was way down and I’d gone very careful I started looking at things far too long you know the hours and hours of practice

We’ve all been putting in since we were kids has stored all the shots I know what shot to play I don’t need to look around the table four times you watch O Sullivan he he just gets on with it he he just knows what to do we all know

What to do and it’s only that anxiety and that desire to I’ve got to be perfect that slows you down and in the end I just don’t think it does you any good of course everyone’s different but it doesn’t do me any favors and I finally learned that we were we were

Assessing Jack a lot because you’ve won all all the all there is to win Jack hasn’t won anything as yet and and I say yet um um during the match tonight do you get a set to me anyway it looked like he didn’t put you under enough pressure did

Giv giving you room to breathe in the match that to me looked like what was going on out there you it looked like like you were like okay this is comfortable this is okay I know it’s not as easy as that but some some early on

In the match I think I won the first round and won hit off the breakoff and the second frame we both had chances and the last couple of times out you know he’d put me to the sword you know sharply even the match at the the

British Open went to the decider but it was one visit stuff all the way through and when I noticed that the first frame he didn’t clear up in one hit I just thought well you know maybe he’s not quite at the peak of his powers today he

Is only human because can sit there and he can just blast you away he can just blow you away and that’s what had happened in the previous two meetings um but I I really think that my new found desire and decision to play the way I used to play um not saying it

Intimidated him but it definitely got the balls on my side and I don’t know I don’t know if those two things are related but it’s not but yes it’s aggressive but not Reckless yeah yeah well I went through a period of being you know in the mid-s you know early

2010 that kind of era I was being aggressive but stupid mhm I’m not stupid anymore and I will when it when I need to I Will Rain it in but of course everyone prefers to be aggressive do it let’s just remind ourselves that before that you were the world champion so that

Stupid guy obviously does still know how to win but you mentioned the name O Sullivan that’s the man you’re playing next on social media already people are getting very excited about this one one person tweeted saying these guys will get their talking done on the table

Amazing match up yeah I can’t wait I mean we’ve never played here uh we’ve never played in London we’ve never played in the Masters we’ve played everywhere else U you know we’ve played in the UK we played in the worlds we played in Germany we’ve played in China

We’ played everywhere in the world uh and we’ve had a lot of good matches over the years I don’t think we’ve played recently I don’t I don’t think it’s quite a while since we played maybe Shanghai Masters a few seasons ago but um obviously a big big test the the

Toughest test the sternest test obviously um but you know I think if I if I it’s why it’s why you get up in the morning think if I play like I played today I I I might be more than a handful question what are you going to be

Wearing during that match that’s the big one well sequins are they coming out well I I don’t know I don’t know what session it is I’m assuming it’ll be an afternoon game you could Point yes and you you can’t wear the sovi suit in you

Can we need to see it mate even I can’t but the jazz hands are always there mate that suit is in my wardrobe if I if I get through to the final you’ll be seeing it Sunday night with sequins listen I’ll probably need more than sequins to be