{"id":1503,"date":"2025-12-08T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:01:52","slug":"masters-2026-draw-shaun-murphy-v-wu-yize-neil-robertson-v-ronnie-osullivan-judd-trump-v-ding-junhui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Masters 2026 draw: Shaun Murphy v Wu Yize, Neil Robertson v Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan, Judd Trump v Ding Junhui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Defending champion Shaun Murphy will play Wu Yize in the first round of the 2026 Masters at Alexandra Palace.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Selby&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cly160wnn1yo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">victory in Sunday&#8217;s UK Championship final<\/a> promoted him to eighth seed for the tournament, meaning he will play Xiao Guodong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Selby&#8217;s triumph meant Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan dropped out of the seeded positions, handing him a mouth-watering meeting with Neil Robertson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Judd Trump will face Ding Junhui in a repeat of this week&#8217;s UK Championship quarter-final, which the Englishman won 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament, in which only the top 16 in the world rankings compete, will run from 11-18 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cn7k2j126p7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Shaun Murph&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}