2024 German Masters

The 2024 German Masters (officially the 2024 BetVictor German Masters) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place from 29 January to 4 February 2024 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. The 18th edition of the German Masters, first held in 1995 as the German Open, it will be the twelfth ranking event of the 2023–24 snooker season, following the World Grand Prix and preceding the Welsh Open. It will also be the seventh of the eight events in the European Series. Organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored by BetVictor, the event will be broadcast by Eurosport in Europe and by other broadcasters worldwide. The winner will receive £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000.

Qualifying for the tournament took place from 18 to 22 December 2023 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield.

Ali Carter is the defending champion, having defeated Tom Ford 103 in the 2023 final.

Format

The event is scheduled to take place from 29 January to 4 February 2024 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. After the success of record crowds at the previous edition, the 2024 event will be extended from five to seven days. It has also reverted to a previous format, where only a single qualifying round is used and the top eight seeds will have their matches held over to the final venue.

All matches will be the best of nine until the semi-finals, which will be the best of 11 frames, and the final which will be the best of 19 frames, played over two .

Broadcasters

The qualifying matches were broadcast by Discovery+ in Europe and the UK; and Huya in China; and Matchroom.live in all other territories.

Prize fund

The event will feature a total prize fund of £427,000 with the winner receiving £80,000.

* Winner: £80,000
* Runner-up: £35,000
* Semi-final: £17,500
* Quarter-final: £11,000
* Last 16: £7,500
* Last 32: £4,500
* Last 64: £3,000
* Highest break: £5,000
* Total: £427,000

Summary

Qualifying

On 18 December, Ken Doherty, Oliver Brown, and Liu Hongyu their respective opponents Jenson Kendrick, Andres Petrov, and Dominic Dale 50. Lyu Haotian led Si Jiahui 40 with of 83, 64, 89, and 112, but Si won five frames in a row, making breaks of 123, 87, 98, and 103, to win by 54.

On 19 December, in the match between Yuan Sijun and Ding Junhui Yuan was docked the fifth frame for being late after the mid-session interval, but made a century break of 102 in frame six and defeated 11th seed Ding 52. He Guoqiang won frame eight on a against John Astley to force a decider, which He won with a century break of 111 for a 54 victory. 16th seed Jack Lisowski made a century break of 102 in the seventh frame, but was defeated by Zak Surety 53.

On 20 December, Liam Pullen defeated 24th seed Stuart Bingham 51, and Scott Donaldson narrowly beat 20th seed Gary Wilson 54 on the last .

On 21 December, 21st seed Zhou Yuelong beat Jak Jones 54, even though Jones made two 125 breaks. Zhou attempted a maximum break in frame three, but missed the 13th black to end the break at 97. 17th seed Hossein Vafaei whitewashed Mink Nutcharut 50, and 28th seed Stephen Maguire beat Rebecca Kenna 51.

On 22 December, 30th seed David Gilbert, 18th seed Tom Ford, and 26th seed Joe Perry whitewashed their respective opponents Dean Young, Baipat Siripaporn, and Ryan Thomerson 50. Ashley Carty defeated 25th seed Noppon Saengkham 52. Tian Pengfei came back from 24 down to beat Reanne Evans 54.

Main draw

The draw for the tournament is shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.

Top half

Bottom half

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place from 18 to 22 December 2023 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield. Matches involving the top eight seeds will be held over to be played at the final venue. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote the top 32 seeded players, whilst players in bold denote match winners.

Berlin

The held-over matches to be played in Berlin on 29 January are as follows:

* v
* v
* v
* v
* v
* v
* v
* v

Sheffield

The results of the qualifying matches played in Sheffield were as follows:

18 December

* 5–1
* 5–0
* 5–0
* 5–4
* 5–3
* 5–1
* 3–5
* 0–5
* 5–2
* 5–3
* 3–5
* 5–2

19 December

* 5–2
* 5–4
* 5–3
* 2–5
* 3–5
* 1–5
* 5–4
* 1–5
* 5–4
* 5–2
* 5–4
* 5–3

20 December

* 5–4
* 5–3
* 5–4
* 5–1
* 4–5
* 1–5
* 2–5
* 3–5
* 5–2
* 5–3
* 4–5
* 3–5

21 December

* 5–0
* 5–4
* 5–3
* 5–1
* 5–0
* 5–1
* 3–5
* 5–2
* 5–3
* 5–3
* 1–5
* 2–5

22 December

* 5–0
* 3–5
* 5–1
* 5–0
* 2–5
* 5–4
* 5–4
* 5–0

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

A total of 30 century breaks were made in the qualifying stage of the tournament.

* 142 Jordan Brown
* 138, 103 Barry Hawkins
* 133 Zhang Anda
* 131 Aaron Hill
* 131 Kyren Wilson
* 128 Xing Zihao
* 127, 110 Jimmy Robertson
* 125, 125 Jak Jones
* 123, 103 Si Jiahui
* 119, 107 Xiao Guodong
* 115 Scott Donaldson
* 114, 102 Pang Junxu
* 113 Mark Davis
* 112 Lyu Haotian
* 111 He Guoqiang
* 110 Matthew Selt
* 109 Sam Craigie
* 106 Mark Williams
* 104 David Gilbert
* 104 Zhou Yuelong
* 103 Elliot Slessor
* 102 Jack Lisowski
* 102 Yuan Sijun
* 100 Ben Woollaston

References

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