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World Snooker Championship final: Mark Selby wins fourth world title By Steve SutcliffeBBC Sport at the Crucible Last updated on comments 536 Mark Selby claimed his fourth World Championship title with an 18-15 victory over Shaun Murphy at a sold-out Crucible Theatre. Selby, who led 14-11 prior to the final session, is now three Crucible crowns off Stephen Hendry's record of seven. Runs of 66, 68 and a superb 120 helped him break Murphy's resistance in a high-quality encounter. Selby, 37, collects £500,000 in prize money and moves up to second in the world behind Judd Trump. New era of...

Higgins, O'Sullivan and Murphy: still going strong Tennis has Roger Federer and Serena Williams, football Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and American football Tom Brady. But for ageing talent defying their years, there is no rival to snooker. Attempting to predict the winner of the World Championship, which began in Sheffield on Saturday, is not only an almost identical task to a decade ago but, remarkably, not too dissimilar from the turn of the century. Ronnie O’Sullivan, who won the sport’s showpiece tournament in 2001, is No 1 seed for the event, with John Higgins, the man he beat 20 years ago, ...