2007 Irish Professional Championship

Irish Professional Championship
Tournament information
Dates 25–30 September 2007
Venue Red Cow Exhibition Centre
City Dublin
Country Republic of Ireland
Format Non-Ranking event
Total prize fund €16,500
Winner's share €8,000[1]
Highest break 115 (Ken Doherty)
Final
Champion Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty
Runner-up Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien
Score 9–2
2006
Last

The 2007 Irish Professional Championship was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in September 2007. The tournament was held at the Red Cow Exhibition Centre in Dublin, and featured sixteen exclusively Irish and Northern Irish players.

The last-16 and quarter-final matches were played over the best of nine frames, the semi-finals best of eleven and the final best of seventeen.

Two-time world champion and six-time Irish Professional champion Alex Higgins, now aged 58, entered the tournament for the third year in succession; his first-round loss to Fergal O'Brien would be the final competitive match he played before his death in 2010.[2]

Ken Doherty won the event, beating O'Brien 9–2 in the final.[3]

Main Draw

Last 16
Best of 9 frames
Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames
Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
Final
Best of 17 frames
            
Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien 5
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins 0
Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien 5
Northern Ireland Mark Allen 4
Northern Ireland Mark Allen 5
Republic of Ireland Gary Hardiman 4
Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien 6
Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney 5
Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney 5
Republic of Ireland Eamonn Kelly 1
Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney 5
Northern Ireland Joe Swail 0
Northern Ireland Joe Swail 5
Republic of Ireland Colm Gilcreest 1
Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien 2
Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty 9
Northern Ireland Gerard Greene 5
Republic of Ireland Leo Fernandez 3
Northern Ireland Gerard Greene 5
Republic of Ireland Michael Judge 2
Republic of Ireland Michael Judge 5
Republic of Ireland Dessie Sheehan 1
Northern Ireland Gerard Greene 2
Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty 6
Republic of Ireland Vincent Muldoon 5
Republic of Ireland David Morris 2
Republic of Ireland Vincent Muldoon 0
Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty 5
Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty 5
Northern Ireland Patrick Wallace 0

Final

Final: Best of 17 frames.
Red Cow Exhibition Centre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 30 September 2007.
Ken Doherty
Republic of Ireland
9–2 Fergal O'Brien
Republic of Ireland
69(66)–0, 16–106(61), 76–47, 71–41, 66–76, 70(50)–1, 75–31, 73–1 (no score for three frames)
111 Highest break 61
1 Century breaks 0
3 50+ breaks 1

Century breaks

115, 111 Ken Doherty
107 Joe Delaney
106 David Morris

References

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