Shaun Murphy opened up on his nine-darter. (Image: GB News.)
champion regrets ever bringing up that he once made a nine-darter, after being the subject of social media backlash over the claim.
Speaking to Murphy wishes he hadn’t brought up .
The 2005 world champion’s claim was put to the test in a Paddy Power competition, where he and fellow snooker star were pitted against and from darts, and golfers Matt Wallace and Ross Fisher.
The challenge was to test which was the easiest feat to make from each sport, with Murphy the only sportsman to succeed by making a maximum break.
However, he was quickly tasked by Humphries and Van Gerwen to move over to the dartboard and prove that he could have made a nine-darter.
, prompting jeers from Van Gerwen and social media, who cast doubt that he made the darting feat after hitting a sole single four in his three attempts, forcing Murphy to wish he had kept quiet about the matter.
“I will say we had a lot of fun with it in the build up to the tournament, Paddy Power got involved with it, and we were all over it,” Murphy said on live TV. “We had a lot of laughs with it, but the amount of people who were up in arms about it on socials was hilarious, but it was a long time ago.
Shaun Murphy’s disappointing attempts at the dartboard. (Image: Paddy Power.)
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“I don’t play darts anymore, as recent footage shows, it’s awful these days, and I was never that good, if truth be told. But what can I say? It was a random night in the pub, and it’ll never happen again. Part of me wishes I’d never mentioned anything!”
Van Gerwen continued to troll Murphy over his misses, asking: “Where was it you hit the nine-darter? I would like to know this story.”
When host Emma Paton explained that Murphy had recorded his achievement at a local pub, Van Gerwen joked: “Was it 301 or 101?”
Murphy, who defeated reigning world champion to lift the Paul Hunter Trophy for a second time at Alexandra Palace on Sunday, has since claimed that .
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Speaking on his , Murphy said: “I’ve been getting absolute pelters across social media. It seems as if what I thought was an obvious joke hasn’t been picked up on. At the end they told me to throw some darts. I haven’t played darts for nearly 15 years.
“Let me just point this out there, to be clear, I never claimed to be a really good darts player, ever. I used to play socially, once or twice a week in my old pub in Manchester when I lived up there a long time ago. I never claimed to be any good at it.
“But randomly one night, using a set of darts which he’d sent to me as a gift, I threw nine perfect darts. I think I followed it with 26, it was ridiculous. So at the end of the challenge today, there’s a lot of barracking, a lot of banter.
“The current world champion Luke Humphries has given me his darts. I’ve thrown the first one, held onto it for a bit long and hit two, thrown the next one, gone for double something and missed that, then on purpose I’ve thrown it into the cardboard backing.
“It was totally on purpose, I thought it was funny. The marker nearly collapsed, because it finished about a foot from his head. I thought that was an obvious joke, but it wasn’t.”