Dates 24–30 March 2008 Country China Format Ranking event | City Beijing Organisation(s) WPBSA | |
Venue Beijing University Students' Gymnasium | ||
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.
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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 frame 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:
Qualifying
Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontins in Prestatyn, Wales between 22 and 25 January 2008.