The 29-year-old has been passed fit to make his comeback in the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship at Bournemouth.

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He finished third in the Formula Renault UK Championship this year and appears to have a promising future in motorsport.

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Murphy starts his UK Championship campaign a week on Thursday when he faces one of Scottish duo Alan McManus and Marcus Campbell.

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Meanwhile, Anthony Hamilton subjected Matthew Stevens to his fourth successive defeat since the Welshman won the UK Championship with a shock 5-1 defeat.

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"I'm dead excited as it's my first time there, " said the man who has been a UK Championship (1999) and LG Cup (2003) quarter-finalist.

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And 1983 saw arguably his greatest tournament win, when from 0-7 down to Steve Davis he came back to clinch the UK Championship 16-15.

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On Sunday, he beat Stephen Hendry 10-6 to win the UK Championship and in doing so became the ninth player to do the UK and world double.

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The previous year Williams also picked up the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship and the Regal Welsh Open on his home turf to place him at the top of the snooker tree.

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After the drama, the UK's Richard Burns won the World Rally Championship title, despite Finland's Marcus Gronholm - the 2000 champion - taking the Rally of Great Britain in his Peugeot 206.

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