Originally Posted by owen10:
“How many matches did Shaun Murphy win when he won the World Championship”
As already said it was one less, qualifying changed recently whereby all players ranked 17-144 are thrown in at the same stage and battle down to 16 qualifiers.
It used to be the case where players came in at different stages of the qualifiers, so if you were ranked 17-32 you only had to win one match, players ranked 33-48 two matches, 49-64 three matches, and so on....
Under the old method, Ding would have only had to win 6 matches to win the title.