2008 China Open (snooker)


The 2008 Honghe Industrial China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 24 and 30 March 2008 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This was the penultimate ranking event of the 2007/2008 season, preceding the 2008 World Snooker Championship.
The defending champion was Graeme Dott, but he lost in the first round against Barry Pinches.
Shaun Murphy and Dave Harold set two new records in the eight of their first round match. Murphy eventually won it after 93 minutes and 12 seconds, beating the record of the longest televised frame between Mark Selby and Marco Fu at the 2007 UK Championship and the longest frame in professional competition between Cliff Thorburn and Stephen O’Connor at the 1994 Welsh Open qualifiers, which took 77 minutes 31 seconds and 92 minutes 52 seconds respectively.
Stephen Maguire made the first maximum break in an Asian ranking tournament in the second frame of his semi-final encounter against Ryan Day.
Maguire won his fourth ranking title by defeating Murphy 10–9 in a high quality final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
MatchScore
WC1 Barry Pinches5–1 Zhang Anda
WC2 Fergal O'Brien5–2 Cao Xinlong
WC3 Marcus Campbell5–4 Ah Bulajiang
WC4 Mike Dunn5–1 Yang Qingtian
WC5 Dave Harold5–4 Jin Long
WC6 Mark Allen5–2 Li Hang
WC7 Marco Fu5–4 Li Yuan
WC8 Ricky Walden5–3 Yu Delu

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontins in Prestatyn, Wales between 22 and 25 January 2008.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries