2004 World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge

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

Group A

POS	Player	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	FD	PTS
1	Ding Junhui	3	2	1	8	6	+2	8
2	John Higgins	3	2	1	7	6	+1	7*
3	James Wattana	3	2	1	7	6	+1	7
4	Mark Williams	3	0	3	5	9	−4	5

Results:

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

Group B

POS	Player	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	FD	PTS
1	Atthasit Mahitthi	3	3	0	9	1	+8	9
2	Marco Fu	3	2	1	6	5	+1	6
3	Stephen Hendry	3	1	2	3	6	−3	3
4	Ken Doherty	3	0	3	3	9	−6	0

Results:

^ "World Champions v Asia Stars Challenge". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2019.