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.^[1]

Euro-Asia Masters Challenge

Tournament information
Dates	12–15 July 2007 (2007-07-12 – 2007-07-15)
Venue	Queen Elizabeth Stadium
City	Wan Chai
Country	Hong Kong
Organisation	110 Sport Management Group
Format	Non-ranking event & Team event
Winner's share	£25,000
Final
Champion	John Higgins
Runner-up	James Wattana
Score	5–4
← Event 2 (2003)

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.^[1][2][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.^[2][4][5]

Teams and players

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Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
Team Europe	John Higgins	Ken Doherty	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Stephen Hendry
Team Asia	Ding Junhui	Marco Fu	James Wattana	Supoj Saenla

Results

Euro–Asia Team Challenge

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• 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

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Round-robin stage

Group A

POS Player MP MW ML FW FL FD PTS 1 John Higgins 3 3 0 6 0 +6 3 2 James Wattana 3 2 1 4 3 +1 2 3 Ding Junhui 3 1 2 2 5 −3 1 4 Stephen Hendry 3 0 3 2 6 −4 0

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

POS Player MP MW ML FW FL FD PTS 1 Marco Fu 3 3 0 6 1 +5 3 2 Ken Doherty 3 2 1 5 3 +1 2 3 Ronnie O'Sullivan 3 1 2 3 4 −1 1 4 Supoj Saenla 3 0 3 0 6 −6 0

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

	Semi-finals Best of 3 frames					Final Best of 9 frames
	John Higgins		2
	Ken Doherty		0
						John Higgins		5
						James Wattana		4
	Marco Fu		0
	James Wattana		2

Century breaks

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