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 2007–08 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:


 * 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

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

Qualifying stage centuries

 * 144 – Munraj Pal
 * 138 – Andrew Higginson
 * 134 – Jamie Cope
 * 131 – James McBain
 * 130, 104, 101 – Liu Chuang
 * 128 – Mike Dunn
 * 128 – Mark Allen
 * 125 – Jimmy Michie
 * 120 – Barry Pinches
 * 119 – Jamie O'Neill
 * 119 – Anthony Hamilton
 * 114, 113 – Liu Song


 * 113 – David Roe
 * 112 – David Morris
 * 110 – Michael Holt
 * 104 – Leo Fernandez
 * 104 – Stuart Pettman
 * 104 – Dave Harold
 * 103, 103, 102 – Matthew Selt
 * 101, 101 – Marco Fu
 * 100 – Michael Judge
 * 100 –Lee Spick
 * 100 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 100 – Ian McCulloch

Televised stage centuries

 * 147, 137, 126, 106, 105, 102 – Stephen Maguire
 * 140, 136 – Ken Doherty
 * 136, 112, 111 – Shaun Murphy
 * 135, 118 – Mark Allen
 * 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