2007 Irish Professional Championship

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{{Infobox individual snooker tournament

|tournament_name=Irish Professional Championship

|logo=

|dates={{Start and end dates|2007|09|25|2007|09|30|df=y}}

|venue=Red Cow Exhibition Centre

|location=Dublin

|country=Ireland

|organisation=

|format=Non-Ranking event

|Total prize fund=€16,500

|winners_share=€8,000{{cite web|url=http://www.cuetracker.net/Players/Ken-Doherty/Prize-Money/2007-2008|title=CueTracker - Prize Money Won by Ken Doherty in Season 2007-2008 - Snooker Results & Statistics|publisher=}}

|highest_break=115 (Ken Doherty)

|winner={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty

|runner_up={{flagicon|IRL}} Fergal O'Brien

|score=9–2

|previous=2006

|next=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 players exclusively from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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.{{cite web|url=http://cuetracker.net/Players/Alex-Higgins|title=CueTracker - Alex Higgins - Season 2007-2008 - Professional - Snooker Results & Statistics|publisher=}}

Ken Doherty won the event, beating O'Brien 9–2 in the final.{{cite web|url=http://cuetracker.net/Tournaments/Irish-Professional-Championship/2007/568|title=CueTracker - 2007 Irish Professional Championship - Snooker Results & Statistics|publisher=}}

Main draw

{{16TeamBracket|seeds=no

| team-width =

| score-width =

| RD1= Last 16
Best of 9 frames

| RD2= Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames

| RD3= Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames

| RD4= Final
Best of 17 frames

| RD1-team01={{nowrap|{{flagicon|IRL}} Fergal O'Brien}}

| RD1-score01=5

| RD1-team02={{flagicon|NIR}} Alex Higgins

| RD1-score02=0

| RD1-team03={{flagicon|NIR}} Mark Allen

| RD1-score03=5

| RD1-team04={{flagicon|IRL}} Gary Hardiman

| RD1-score04=4

| RD1-team05={{flagicon|IRL}} Joe Delaney

| RD1-score05=5

| RD1-team06={{flagicon|IRL}} Eamonn Kelly

| RD1-score06=1

| RD1-team07={{flagicon|NIR}} Joe Swail

| RD1-score07=5

| RD1-team08={{flagicon|IRL}} Colm Gilcreest

| RD1-score08=1

| RD1-team09={{flagicon|NIR}} Gerard Greene

| RD1-score09=5

| RD1-team10={{flagicon|IRL}} Leo Fernandez

| RD1-score10=3

| RD1-team11={{flagicon|IRL}} Michael Judge

| RD1-score11=5

| RD1-team12={{flagicon|IRL}} Dessie Sheehan

| RD1-score12=1

| RD1-team13={{flagicon|IRL}} Vincent Muldoon

| RD1-score13=5

| RD1-team14={{flagicon|IRL}} David Morris

| RD1-score14=2

| RD1-team15={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty

| RD1-score15=5

| RD1-team16={{flagicon|NIR}} Patrick Wallace

| RD1-score16=0

| RD2-team01={{flagicon|IRL}} Fergal O'Brien

| RD2-score01=5

| RD2-team02={{flagicon|NIR}} Mark Allen

| RD2-score02=4

| RD2-team03={{flagicon|IRL}} Joe Delaney

| RD2-score03=5

| RD2-team04={{flagicon|NIR}} Joe Swail

| RD2-score04=0

| RD2-team05={{flagicon|NIR}} Gerard Greene

| RD2-score05=5

| RD2-team06={{flagicon|IRL}} Michael Judge

| RD2-score06=2

| RD2-team07={{flagicon|IRL}} Vincent Muldoon

| RD2-score07=0

| RD2-team08={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty

| RD2-score08=5

| RD3-team01={{flagicon|IRL}} Fergal O'Brien

| RD3-score01=6

| RD3-team02={{flagicon|IRL}} Joe Delaney

| RD3-score02=5

| RD3-team03={{flagicon|NIR}} Gerard Greene

| RD3-score03=2

| RD3-team04={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty

| RD3-score04=6

| RD4-team01={{flagicon|IRL}} Fergal O'Brien

| RD4-score01=2

| RD4-team02={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty

| RD4-score02=9

}}

Final

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"

colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#ffd700" | Final: Best of 17 frames.
Red Cow Exhibition Centre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 30 September 2007.

width="230" align="right" | Ken Doherty
{{flagicon|IRL}}

| width="100" align="center" | 9–2

| width="230" | Fergal O'Brien
{{flagicon|IRL}}

colspan="3" align="center" style="font-size: 100%" | 69(66)–0, 16–106(61), 76–47, 71–41, 66–76, 70(50)–1, 75–31, 73–1 (no score for three frames)

align="right" | 111

| align="center" | Highest break

| 61

align="right" | 1

| align="center" | Century breaks

| 0

align="right" | 3

| align="center" | 50+ breaks

| 1

Century breaks

115, 111 {{ndash}} Ken Doherty
107 {{ndash}} Joe Delaney
106 {{ndash}} David Morris

References

Category:Irish Professional Championship

Irish Professional Championship