 In the World Championship , Murphy , seeded eighth , beat Robin Hull 10 – 3 , Joe Perry 13 – 5 , Anthony McGill 13 – 8 and Barry Hawkins 17 – 9 to reach his third World Championship final , meeting tenth seed Stuart Bingham . In the final , despite leading 3 – 0 and 8 – 5 , Murphy fell behind 14 – 11 in the third session . Despite fighting back to level the score at 15 – 15 , Murphy lost the next three frames and the final 18 – 15 . 
