{"id":267863,"date":"2026-01-28T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:46:10","slug":"osullivan-eases-in-round-two-at-german-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267863\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Sullivan eases in round two at German Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan progressed to round two of the German Masters with a 5-1 win over Long Zehuang.<\/p>\n<p>The world number eight clinched the opening two frames before Long responded with a break of 56 to pull one back, but a comfortable display saw O\u2019Sullivan ease to victory, hitting a 93 break in the final frame to wrap up the win.<\/p>\n<p>Judd Trump also reached the second round with a 5-0 whitewash against Cheung Ka Wai, and John Higgins claimed a 5-1 opening-round win against Jamie Jones, while Mark Selby beat Liu Hongyu 5-1 and Zhao Xintong earned a 5-0 victory over Jiang Jun.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening session, Kyren Wilson continued his title defence with a 5-1 win over Anthony McGill in round two and Shaun Murphy hit two century breaks on his way to beating Julien Leclercq 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>An entertaining meeting saw Ishpreet Singh Chadha battle to a 5-3 win over Elliot Slessor after clinching the final three frames, which included breaks of 56 and 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan progressed to round two of the German Masters with a 5-1 win over Long Zehuang. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-267863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267863","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=267863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}