The Masters Snooker 2025 Final – Shaun Murphy vs Kyren Wilson Tips and Betting Preview

The final of The Masters will take place over two sessions of snooker on Sunday when two world champions collide inside Alexandra Palace as Shaun Murphy takes on Kyren Wilson for the Paul Hunter Trophy and the £350,000 first prize.

Murphy has won this title in the past but he hasn’t got his hands on the trophy for 10 years. Wilson has been to the final of this tournament before but he hasn’t quite gone all the way. That is something he’ll be looking to change here.

Shaun Murphy

This has been a brilliant week so far for Shaun Murphy but it will mean nothing if he doesn’t go on and win the title on Sunday. Murphy has played sublime snooker, culminating in that excellent maximum break in the semi-final on Saturday but he will swap all of that for the 10 frames he needs to land a second Masters title. The good thing for Murphy is he knows he can handle the occasion of the final of this elite tournament and come out on top in it.

Murphy has only dropped six frames on his way to the final of this tournament, which when you consider the calibre of player who arrives at the start of this thing is pretty decent. He has scored the best of anyone this week and ever since his opening match he has given up the demeanour that he believes he is going to win this thing. There has been nothing in the snooker he has played to suggest such belief is misplaced and if he has one more performance in him he could be The Masters champion again.

Kyren Wilson

The world champion Kyren Wilson has put himself into a second Masters final. He has been one of the players of the season so far, winning the Xi’an Grand Prix and the Northern Ireland Open but were he to get over the line here it would mean a lot more, not just because of the prize money that is the reward for winning here but also because he will double his tally of Triple Crown titles and be two-thirds of the way to completing his own collection of those trophies.

Wilson has had to work much harder to come through the draw, largely because he hasn’t had his best stuff with him overall but the longer his semi-final against Judd Trump went on the better he looked and it might be that he is ready to offer up his best showing of the tournament in this final. If that is the case then he is entitled to be tough to beat. The one concern would be whether his ankle can hold up for the entire day.


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Head-to-head

These two have met each other on 12 previous occasions with Shaun Murphy coming away with the spoils in eight of them and Kyren Wilson just the four. Murphy also leads 65-48 on the frame count too so that will give him some confidence. Surprisingly, this will be their first meeting at The Masters but it isn’t the first time they have met in a final. They have played two previous finals and Murphy has won both of them. Murphy has also won their only previous best of 19 frame encounter so history is very much on the side of the older man here.

Betting

Shaun Murphy has been the outsider in the last two matches that he has played but he has dominated them both and he is the outsider here and just like in the two previous games I can’t be having that. Murphy has won his last three ranking finals so generally when he gets to this stage of a tournament it is because he is playing well enough to win it and that is certainly the case here having made a maximum break on Saturday afternoon.

There is no doubt that we saw the best version of Kyren Wilson in the latter part of his semi-final against Judd Trump on Saturday evening and that bodes well for him here but those two have a bit of a rivalry which I sense Wilson gets up for and I wonder if the intensity of this one will be the same. Wilson finally started scoring on Saturday evening but he’ll need to maintain that here. I just fancy Murphy to have a little too much here.

Tips

Back S.Murphy to beat K.Wilson for a 3/10 stake at 2.20 with William Hill

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