All the best sports news and much more on our dedicated Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nJohn Parrott chipped in: “Unbelievable. If you are watching pal, I am still hurting for you. I am absolutely am, I have never seen anything like it.”<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Ronnie O’Sullivan and John Higgins in disagreement over World Championship finalist<\/span><\/span>READ MORE: World Snooker Championship referee shares the reward that officials gets<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAllen was unlikely to have been watching the painful moment from home, but the Northern Irishman faced the music after the loss, admitting: “You don’t deserve to be in the world final if you’re missing balls like that<\/p>\n
“That was just pure pressure to be honest. Normally I’m pretty good under the pressure but just didn’t handle it well today. I was probably more nervous at different stages of the match than I was on that black.<\/p>\n
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“I just threw a quick one in, I genuinely did. I just didn’t deliver the cue properly and I got what I deserved when you miss a black like that to win the match. I had two, three chances to close out the match and didn’t do it. But credit to Wu.”<\/p>\n
He added: “The final frame was another opportunity to win. I was fine going into it – win the next frame, that’s what I always say. I was a little unlucky when I potted the pink, split the reds but didn’t land on anything.<\/p>\n
“But I had more than enough chances to win. At the end of the match, I just wished Wu good luck and said he played very well. I think he’s going to be a world champion.”<\/p>\n
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During Monday’s afternoon session, Wu moved within five frames of becoming the second youngest world champion in history after withstanding a strong Murphy fightback. The 22-year-old looked down and out after losing the first five frames of the day as the experienced Murphy roared back from a 10-7 overnight deficit to surge into a 12-10 lead.<\/p>\n
But Wu, who had looked a pale imitation of the ferocious potting machine who had blazed into his first world final, hit back to win the final three frames of the session and regain a slender 13-12 advantage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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