2007 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge

The 2007 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge was a professional non-ranking team (also referred to as the Euro–Asia Team Challenge) and invitational snooker event that took place from 12 to 15 July 2007 at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

The tournament was a revival of the two Euro-Asia Masters Challenge events played under the same name in 2003. The tournament's team event consists of two teams of four, the European team and the Asian team, playing in a single-frame, best-of-nine competition, with Team Europe defeating Team Asia with a score of 5–3. The tournament's singles event featured eight players in two groups of four, with the top two in each group progressing to semi-finals. John Higgins defeated James Wattana 5–4 in the final to win the £25,000 prize.

Teams and players

Results

Euro–Asia Team Challenge

• Frame 1: John Higgins 7 – 71(70) Marco Fu — (Europe 0 – 1 Asia)
• Frame 2: Ken Doherty 86(61) – 42 James Wattana — (Europe 1 – 1 Asia)
• Frame 3: Stephen Hendry 66 – 19 Ding Junhui — (Europe 2 – 1 Asia)
• Frame 4: Ronnie O'Sullivan 99(68) – 9 Supoj Saenla — (Europe 3 – 1 Asia)
• Frame 5: John Higgins 39 – 56 Ding Junhui — (Europe 3 – 2 Asia)
• Frame 6: Stephen Hendry 38 – 75 James Wattana — (Europe 3 – 3 Asia)
• Frame 7: Ken Doherty 65 – 31 Supoj Saenla — (Europe 4 – 3 Asia)
• Frame 8: Ronnie O'Sullivan 80(50) – 8 Marco Fu — (Europe 5 – 3 Asia)

Euro-Asia Masters Challenge

Round-robin stage

Group A

Results:

• John Higgins 2–0 Stephen Hendry
• James Wattana 2–0 Ding Junhui
• James Wattana 2–1 Stephen Hendry
• John Higgins 2–0 Ding Junhui
• John Higgins 2–0 James Wattana
• Ding Junhui 2–1 Stephen Hendry

Group B

Results:

• Ken Doherty 2–1 Ronnie O'Sullivan
• Marco Fu 2–1 Ken Doherty
• Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–0 Supoj Saenla
• Marco Fu 2–0 Supoj Saenla
• Ken Doherty 2–0 Supoj Saenla
• Marco Fu 2–0 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Knock-out stage

Century breaks

• 127 John Higgins
• 123 Marco Fu
• 117 Ronnie O'Sullivan

References