{"id":316174,"date":"2026-02-25T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:31:08","slug":"chang-makes-four-consecutive-centuries-to-beat-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316174\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang makes four consecutive centuries to beat Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chang Bingyu made four consecutive century breaks as he swept past Shaun Murphy 4-0 in the first round of the Welsh Open in Llandudno.<\/p>\n<p>Chang opened with a run of 130, which he then followed up with 136, 119 and another 130 to stun former world champion Murphy \u2013 who potted just one solitary red in frame three.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I honestly didn&#8217;t expect to play that well today,&#8221; world number 54 Chang said on the WST website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the match, my mindset was more about learning from him. After finishing the match, I felt really happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy hailed Chang\u2019s performance as the &#8220;best&#8221; he had seen in a first-to-four contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that were Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan or Judd Trump, it would be on the news,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Tuesday\u2019s early sessions at Venue Cymru, home favourite Ryan Day slipped to a 4-3 defeat by Hungarian Bulcsu Revesz, and world champion Zhao Xintong edged out Fan Zhengyi in another last-frame decider with a break of 71, having earlier made back-to-back centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chang Bingyu made four consecutive century breaks as he swept past Shaun Murphy 4-0 in the first round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-316174","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\/316174","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=316174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}