2007 Northern Ireland Trophy
The 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4–11 November 2007 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In his third round match Ronnie O'Sullivan completed a maximum break against Ali Carter, one of five centuries that he completed in his 5–2 victory this is a record. O'Sullivan remains the only player to make five centuries in a best of 9 match.
Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament since 2004 by defeating Fergal O'Brien 9–5 in the final. This Maguire's third ranking title.Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
- Winner: £30,000
- Runner-up: £15,000
- Semi-final: £7,500
- Quarter-final: £5,600
- Last 16: £4,000
- Last 32: £2,500
- Last 48: £1,625
- Last 64: £1,100
- Stage one highest break: £500
- Stage two highest break: £2,000
- Stage one maximum break: £1,000
- Stage two maximum break: £20,000
- Total: £200,000
Main draw
Final
Qualifying
Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales between 23 October and 25 October 2007.Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
- 136 Alfie Burden
- 135 Barry Pinches
- 134 Rory McLeod
- 130 Robin Hull
- 129 Jimmy Michie
- 118 Mike Dunn
- 113 Patrick Wallace
- 113 John Parrott
- 110, 100 Kurt Maflin
- 110 Robert Milkins
- 109, 100 Liang Wenbo
- 107 Ben Woollaston
- 104 Jamie O'Neill
- 103 Liu Song
- 100 Xiao Guodong
- 147, 129, 122, 110, 108, 107 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 142, 114 Fergal O'Brien
- 136 Ian McCulloh
- 136 Ali Carter
- 135, 106, 105 Stephen Maguire
- 130, 127 Ding Junhui
- 127 Stephen Hendry
- 124, 113 Shaun Murphy
- 114 Marco Fu
- 113, 108, 100 Mark Allen
- 112 Ken Doherty
- 112 Barry Hawkins
- 110 Neil Robertson
- 108, 102 Stephen Lee
- 108 Joe Perry
- 106 Nigel Bond
- 102 Adrian Gunnell
- 101 Ryan Day