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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.
| 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 |  Ken Doherty |
| Runner-up | Fergal O'Brien |
| Score | 9–2 |
← 2006 Last → | |
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
edit| Last 16 Best of 9 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||
| Fergal O'Brien
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Alex Higgins
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Fergal O'Brien
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Mark Allen
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Mark Allen
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Gary Hardiman
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Fergal O'Brien
| 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Joe Delaney
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Joe Delaney
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Eamonn Kelly
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Joe Delaney
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Joe Swail
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Joe Swail
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Colm Gilcreest
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Fergal O'Brien
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ken Doherty
| 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Gerard Greene
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Leo Fernandez
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Gerard Greene
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Judge
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Judge
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Dessie Sheehan
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Gerard Greene
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ken Doherty
| 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Vincent Muldoon
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| David Morris
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Vincent Muldoon
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Ken Doherty
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Ken Doherty
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Patrick Wallace
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
Final
edit| Final: Best of 17 frames. Red Cow Exhibition Centre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 30 September 2007. | ||
| Ken Doherty
|
9–2 | Fergal O'Brien
|
| 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
edit- 115, 111 – Ken Doherty
- 107 – Joe Delaney
- 106 – David Morris