Selby beats Murphy for UK snooker title

World number one Mark Selby defeated close friend and fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy 10-6 to win the UK Championship title. The players had been locked at 4-4 at the end of the afternoon session in the best-of-19 frame final, before world number one Selby edged into a 6-5 lead in the evening. Murphy won the next frame but Selby swept the following four to claim the title. "It means a great deal. It makes it even more special to beat someone of Shaun's class," Selby told the BBC. "It was a strange game, it was not pretty. I was twitching all over the place." Sunday's final was the first all-English affair since 1992.