German Masters snooker 2022 LIVE: Mark Selby eases through before Shaun Murphy and Judd Trump begin title quest

AROUND THE TABLES (GERMAN MASTERS LAST 16) Ad/> David Gilbert 1-0 Yan Bingtao Noppon Saengkham 0-1 Ryan Day Sam Craigie 0-0 Ken Doherty German MastersSelby and Allen safely through but Highfield sent home2 HOURS AGO Kurt Maflin 0-0 Shaun Murphy (58-40) Murphy slots a fabulous green. Knocks in brown, but ends up wrong side of blue. Misses a mid-range pink, but then holes a lovely long pink only to see the white unluckily fall down a centre pocket.

Maflin relieved as he pots the pink from white off the yellow spot after earlier needing only one ball. Finally the frame is over. Maflin leads 1-0.

Murphy nods in glum realisation. Kurt Maflin 0-0 Shaun Murphy (35-12) Murphy won the last meeting of these players with a 5-2 success in the last eight of the 2019 China Championship, but Maflin enjoyed a 5-4 victory in the quarter-finals of the 2015 China Open. All very drawn out at moment in a safety joust.

Kurt Maflin 0-0 Shaun Murphy (29-12) Maflin down at 37 in the world. Which is low for a player of his calibre. Slow start to this encounter with balls all running scrappy at the top end of table.

Kurt Maflin 0-0 Shaun Murphy (24-12) One quarter-final so far this season for Murphy at the Northern Ireland Open, but plenty to come this season you would suspect from the 2005 world champion. But not at this visit as he misses an easy red to allow Maflin back to the table. Around the tables (German Masters last 16) David Gilbert 0-0 Yan Bingtao Noppon Saengkham 0-0 Ryan Day Sam Craigie 0-0 Ken Doherty Kurt Maflin 0-0 Shaun Murphy (1-3) Could be a classic encounter this one between two superb cueists at the Tempodrom.