The 2008 Honghe Industrial China Open was a professional

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tournament that took place between 24 and 30 March 2008 at the

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, China. This was the penultimate ranking event of the 2007–08 season, preceding the

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. The defending champion was Graeme Dott, but he lost in the first round against Barry Pinches.

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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: *Winner: £48,000 *Runner-up: £22,500 *Semi-final: £12,000 *Quarter-final: £6,500 *Last 16: £4,275 *Last 32: £2,750 *Last 48: £1,725 *Last 64: £1,325 *Stage one highest break: £500 *Stage two highest break: £2,000 *Stage one maximum break: £1,000 *Stage two maximum break: £20,000 *Total: £250,000

Wildcard round

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place at

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between 22 and 25 January 2008.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

*144

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*138 Andrew Higginson *134 Jamie Cope *131 James McBain *130, 104, 101 Liu Chuang *128 Mike Dunn *128

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*125 Jimmy Michie *120 Barry Pinches *119

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*119 Anthony Hamilton *114, 113 Liu Song *113 David Roe *112 David Morris *110 Michael Holt *104

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*104 Stuart Pettman *104 Dave Harold *103, 103, 102 Matthew Selt *101, 101 Marco Fu *100 Michael Judge *100

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*100 Fergal O'Brien *100 Ian McCulloch

Televised stage centuries

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, 137, 126, 106, 105, 102 Stephen Maguire *140, 136 Ken Doherty *136, 112, 111

*135, 118

*132, 127, 117, 109, 106 Mark Selby *128 Fergal O'Brien *127, 116 John Higgins *127, 116 Barry Pinches *123, 104 Ryan Day *121, 114, 105 Marco Fu *115 Jin Long *112 Neil Robertson *110, 108, 101 Mark Williams *110, 106 Marcus Campbell *107, 104 Ricky Walden *104, 101, 100 Nigel Bond *102 Barry Hawkins

References

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