 In October 2014 , he won the Bulgarian Open defeating Martin Gould 4 – 2 in the final . Two weeks later he reached the final of the General Cup but lost 6 – 7 against Ali Carter . In November , he won the Ruhr Open beating Robert Milkins 4 – 0 in the final . In the second frame of the final he achieved the fourth maximum break of his career after missing out on the maximum on two previous occasions during that day , in matches against Joe Swail where Murphy made a break of 129 before missing the blue ball and in a match against Mark Williams with the break ending on the green ball and thus 122 . In 2014 , Shaun Murphy became the first player to make three maximums in a calendar year . 
