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 Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in

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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

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, but he lost in the first round against

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Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...

and

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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

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and

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at the

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and the longest frame in professional competition between

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and Stephen O'Connor at the 1994 Welsh Open qualifiers, which took 77 minutes 31 seconds and 92 minutes 52 seconds respectively.

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made the first

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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

Munraj Pal Munraj Pal (born 21 April 1976) is an English former professional snooker player. Career Pal turned professional in 1995, but fell off the tour two years later in 1997. He re-qualified during the 1997/1998 season, but lost his professional st ...

*138

Andrew Higginson Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open. Career Early years After some succ ...

*134

Jamie Cope Jamie Cope (born 12 September 1985) is an English former professional snooker player. A finalist in two ranking tournaments, the 2006 Grand Prix and the 2007 China Open, Cope also reached the semi-finals of the 2011 Masters. He reached his h ...

*131 James McBain *130, 104, 101 Liu Chuang *128 Mike Dunn *128

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*125

Jimmy Michie Jimmy Michie (pronounced "Mickey"; born 4 August 1971) is an English former professional snooker player from Pontefract, Yorkshire, and a two-time WPBSA ranking tournament semi-finalist, who has also reached the World Snooker Championship. Mich ...

*120

*119

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*119 Anthony Hamilton *114, 113

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*113

David Roe David Roe (born 11 September 1965) is a former English professional snooker player, and a four-time ranking tournament quarter-finalist. Career Roe was born on 11 September 1965 in Derby. He began his professional career for the 1986–87 sno ...

*112 David Morris *110 Michael Holt *104

Leo Fernandez Leo Fernandez (born 5 July 1976 in Limerick) is an Irish former professional snooker player. Snooker career Fernandez's best ranking event progress was reaching the last 16 of the 2003 Welsh Open, defeating opponents including fellow Irishman F ...

*104

Stuart Pettman Stuart Pettman (born 24 April 1975) is an English former professional snooker player. The Preston native qualified for the World Championship three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2010. He beat 2005 champion Shaun Murphy in qualifying to reach the 20 ...

*104

*103, 103, 102

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*101, 101

*100

Michael Judge Michael Judge (born 12 June 1975 in Dublin) is a former professional snooker player from Ireland. His best performance in a ranking event came in the 2004 Grand Prix, where he reached the semi-finals, and he reached his highest ranking, 24th, f ...

*100

Lee Spick Lee Spick (25 April 1980 – 26 January 2015) was an English professional snooker player. A former English under-15 champion, he reached the last 48 of ranking events on five occasions, including twice in the World Championship. Career He reac ...

*100

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*100 Ian McCulloch

Televised stage centuries

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, 137, 126, 106, 105, 102

*140, 136

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*136, 112, 111

*135, 118

*132, 127, 117, 109, 106

*128

*127, 116

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*127, 116

*123, 104 Ryan Day *121, 114, 105

*115 Jin Long *112

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*110, 108, 101 Mark Williams *110, 106

Marcus Campbell Marcus Campbell (born 22 September 1972) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He was ranked within the world's top 64 for 15 consecutive seasons. Career Campbell is most famous for whitewashing Stephen Hendry 9–0 in the 1998 L ...

*107, 104

Ricky Walden Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...

*104, 101, 100

Nigel Bond Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English retired professional snooker player. Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...

*102

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References

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