{"id":158674,"date":"2025-11-25T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158674\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:12:07","slug":"uk-championship-chang-bingyu-makes-147-to-set-new-maximum-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158674\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Championship: Chang Bingyu makes 147 to set new maximum record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chang Bingyu made a 147 break in UK Championship qualifying to take the number of maximums in a season to a new record of 16, with more than six months of the campaign remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the first 147 of Chang&#8217;s career and put the 23-year-old from China 4-3 up in a third-round match against Stephen Maguire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Chang, who returned earlier this year following a two-year ban for his part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/65641122\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a match-fixing scandal,<\/a> went on to lose 6-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A maximum is made up of 15 reds, 15 blacks, then each colour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The previous record of 15 in a season, which was set in 2024-25, was equalled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/c4g6q78yq11o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Pullen<\/a> in the first round of qualifying for this year&#8217;s UK Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven-time world champion Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan &#8211; along with Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Aaron Hill &#8211; has made two 147s this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been 233 maximums in the history of snooker.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chang Bingyu made a 147 break in UK Championship qualifying to take the number of maximums in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-158674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}