2004 World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge explained

Venue:BEC-Tero Hall
Location:Bangkok
Country:Thailand
Organisation:110 Sports Management Group
Format:Non-ranking event
Highest Break: John Higgins (103)
Winner: Marco Fu
Runner Up: John Higgins
Score:5–1

The 2004 World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge was an invitational professional non-ranking snooker tournament that ran for one year.

This was, in effect, the same event as the Euro-Asia Masters Challenge which ran a season earlier but under a different name. This time, the field consisted of four world champions: Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Ken Doherty and Mark Williams plus James Wattana, Ding Junhui, Marco Fu and up and coming Thai player, Atthasit Mahitthi. The format was the same with the players split into two round robin groups with the top two from each progressing to the semi-finals.[1]

Results

Round-robin stage

Group A

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1 Ding Junhui32186+28
2 John Higgins32176+17*
3 James Wattana32176+17
4 Mark Williams30359−45
Results:

* John Higgins finished in the playoffs ahead of James Wattana due to winning their head to head match 3–1

Group B

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1 Atthasit Mahitthi33091+89
2 Marco Fu32165+16
3 Stephen Hendry31236−33
4 Ken Doherty30339−60
Results:

Knock-out stage

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge. https://web.archive.org/web/20120216155703/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc4.html#WChampvAsianStars. dead. 16 February 2012. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. 18 December 2019.