2015 Masters Round 1 Sun 11th Jan

Mark Selby (Eng) 5-6 Shaun Murphy (Eng)

World champion Mark Selby was knocked out in the first round of the Masters as he was beaten 6-5 by Shaun Murphy.

Murphy, 32, held a 5-1 lead, before fellow Englishman Selby won four frames, including a break of 120, to level the scores at Alexandra Palace.


But 2012 runner-up Murphy took the decider to reach the quarter-finals.


It was the first match of the 16-man competition, with England's Stuart Bingham taking on Hong Kong's Marco Fu at 19:00 GMT.


Selby, 31, lost the 2014 Masters final to Ronnie O'Sullivan, before defeating him last May to win the World Championship for the first time.

Stuart Bingham (Eng) 3-6 Marco Fu (HK)

Hong Kong's Marco Fu made a maximum 147 break during his 6-3 first-round win against England's Stuart Bingham on the opening day of the Masters.

World number 10 Fu compiled the third maximum of his career in the fourth frame of his game at Alexandra Palace.

He made two further century breaks, both worth 103.

In the quarter-finals of the 16-man tournament, Fu will face reigning champion Ronnie O'Sullivan or Ricky Walden, who play on Tuesday.

Fu, who has won two ranking events in his career, reached the final of the Masters in 2011, but lost 10-4 against China's Ding Junhui.