View source for 2004 World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge

{{Infobox individual snooker tournament
|tournament_name = {{nowrap|World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge}}
|logo = 
|dates ={{Start and end dates|2004|08|4|2004|08|8|df=y}}
|venue = BEC-Tero Hall
|location = [[Bangkok]]
|country = [[Thailand]]
|organisation = 110 Sports Management Group
|format = Non-[[Snooker world rankings|ranking]] event
|Total prize fund=
|winners_share=
|highest_break={{flagicon|SCO}} [[John Higgins]] (103)
|winner={{flagicon|HKG}} [[Marco Fu]]
|runner_up={{flagicon|SCO}} [[John Higgins]]
|score=5–1
|previous=
|next=
}}

The '''2004 World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge''' was an invitational professional non-[[Snooker world rankings|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 (snooker player)|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc4.html#WChampvAsianStars|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216155703/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc4.html#WChampvAsianStars|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2012|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive|accessdate=18 December 2019}}</ref>

==Results==
===Round-robin stage===
'''Group A'''
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=20|POS
!width=165|Player
!width=20|MP
!width=20|MW
!width=20|ML
!width=20|FW
!width=20|FL
!width=20|FD
!width=20|PTS
|- style="background:#aaffaa;"
|1||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|CHN}} '''[[Ding Junhui]]'''
|3||2||1||8||6||+2||8
|- style="background:#aaffaa;"
|2||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|SCO}} '''[[John Higgins]]'''
|3||2||1||7||6||+1||7* 
|- 
|3||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|THA}} [[James Wattana]]
|3||2||1||7||6||+1||7 
|-
|4||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|WAL}} [[Mark Williams (snooker player)|Mark Williams]]
|3||0||3||5||9||−4||5
|}
{{Col-2}}
'''Results:'''
* '''Ding Junhui  3'''–1 John Higgins
* '''James Wattana 3'''–1 Mark Williams
* '''John Higgins 3'''–1 James Wattana
* '''Ding Junhui 3'''–2 Mark Williams
* '''James Wattana 3'''–2 Ding Junhui
* '''John Higgins 3'''–2 Mark Williams
{{Col-end}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> [[John Higgins]] finished in the playoffs ahead of [[James Wattana]] due to winning their head to head match 3–1

'''Group B'''
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=20|POS
!width=165|Player
!width=20|MP
!width=20|MW
!width=20|ML
!width=20|FW
!width=20|FL
!width=20|FD
!width=20|PTS
|- style="background:#aaffaa;"
|1||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|THA}} '''[[Atthasit Mahitthi]]'''
|3||3||0||9||1||+8||9
|- style="background:#aaffaa;"
|2||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|HKG}} '''[[Marco Fu]]'''
|3||2||1||6||5||+1||6
|- 
|3||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|SCO}} [[Stephen Hendry]]
|3||1||2||3||6||−3||3
|-
|4||style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|IRL}} [[Ken Doherty]]
|3||0||3||3||9||−6||0 
|}
{{Col-2}}
'''Results:'''
* '''Atthasit Mahitthi  3'''–0 Marco Fu
* '''Atthasit Mahitthi 3'''–0 Stephen Hendry
* '''Marco Fu 3'''–0 Stephen Hendry
* '''Stephen Hendry 3'''–0 Ken Doherty
* '''Atthasit Mahitthi 3'''–1 Ken Doherty
* '''Marco Fu 3'''–2 Ken Doherty
{{Col-end}}

===Knock-out stage===
{{4TeamBracket 
| RD1=Semi-finals<br/>Best of 9 frames
| RD2=Final<br/>Best of 9 frames
| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1={{flagicon|CHN}} [[Ding Junhui]]
| RD1-score1=4
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2={{flagicon|HKG}} '''[[Marco Fu]]'''
| RD1-score2='''5'''
| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3={{flagicon|THA}} [[Atthasit Mahitthi]]
| RD1-score3=2
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4={{flagicon|SCO}} '''[[John Higgins]]'''
| RD1-score4='''5'''

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1={{flagicon|HKG}} '''[[Marco Fu]]'''
| RD2-score1='''5'''
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2={{flagicon|SCO}} [[John Higgins]]
| RD2-score2=1
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Snooker tournaments}}
{{Snooker season 2004/2005}}

[[Category:Snooker non-ranking competitions]]
[[Category:Defunct snooker competitions|World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge]]