The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 4 (also known as the 2011 Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 and 28 August 2011 in Fürth, Germany. Some of the preliminary round matches were held in Nürnberg. It was the first PTC event outside of the Grand Finals to be broadcast on television, as one table was screened on Eurosport.

Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 78th official maximum break during his last 32 match against Adam Duffy. This was O'Sullivan's 11th record 147 break.

Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost 3–4 in the last 32 against Andrew Higginson.

Mark Selby won in the final 4–0 against Mark Davis.

Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner €10,000 2,000 Runner-up €5,000 1,600 Semi-finalist €2,500 1,280 Quarter-finalist €1,500 1,000 Last 16 €1,000 760 Last 32 €600 560 Last 64 €200 360 Maximum break €2,260 – Total €52,260 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Hendrik Henschke 2–4 Roland Hanisch Chen Zhe 4–0 Norbert Eckstein Norbert Hofheinz 4–2 Stephanus Klitzke Hendrik Glax 0–4 Soner Sari Christopher Henry 4–0 Andreas Hartung Stephen Ellis 3–4 Chris McBreen Baghi Ebrahim 4–1 Pavel Leyk Reanne Evans 1–4 Phil Barnes Sharam Changezi Julian Treiber Allan Taylor 4–0 Dirk Hochheim

Ben Harrison 4–0 Laurin Winters Julian Gärtner 4–0 Bernd Strnad Thomas Cesal 1–4 Sanjin Kusan Douglas Hogan 4–2 James Cahill Thomas Valentin 4–0 Oliver Metzger Wilhelm Braunwald 1–4 Jörg Petersen Alex Taubman 2–4 Ian Glover Ronny Buchholz 1–4 Zen Beechey David Gray Mirko Groß Diana Schuler 0–4 Kyren Wilson

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Stefan Gerst 4–3 Roland Hanisch Sanderson Lam 4–2 Shane Castle Liam Monk 4–0 Ralf Günzel Michael Wasley 4–0 Paul Schopf Zafir Dilji 0–4 Chen Zhe Christian Pesch 0–4 Norbert Hofheinz Gerrit bij de Leij 4–2 Soner Sari Naresh Samarawickrama 0–4 Steve Judd Ricky Norris 2–4 Lee Page Ron Florax 1–4 Andreas Ploner Ole Steiner 0–4 Christopher Henry Kishan Hirani 4–1 Chris McBreen Chris Norbury 4–0 Baghi Ebrahim Jörg Schneidewindt Rüdiger Fehrmann Tomasz Skalski 3–4 Phil Barnes Tony Knowles w/d–w/o Lasse Münstermann Klaus Wuscher 1–4 Hans Blanckaert w/o–w/d Charlie Walters Ronni Beniesch 2–4 Julian Treiber Stefan Joachim w/o–w/d Andrew Milliard Özyurt Aksoy 1–4 Allan Taylor Felix Pleschek 0–4 Ben Harrison Michael Betzinger w/o–w/d Robert Valiant Mitchell Travis 4–0 Mario Wehrmann Gareth Allen 4–1 Julian Gärtner Mitchell Mann 2–4 Joe Delaney Sean O'Sullivan 4–1 Oliver Brown Markus Pfistermüller 1–4 Markus Stocker 4–2 Sanjin Kusan Sam Harvey 4–0 Jan Leichs Andy Lee 0–4 Andreas Pesch Phil O’Kane 4–0 Stefan Merkel

Brian Cox 4–0 Harald Kloss Anja Vucicevic 3–4 Oliver Kremp Craig Steadman 4–0 Rita Jakisch Jak Jones Hans-Jürgen Bins Maurice Le Duc 4–0 Anne-Kathrin Hirsch Ashley Wright 4–0 Douglas Hogan Christof Biniarsch w/o–w/d Steve Ventham Patrick Rossmann w/o–w/d Ryan Causton Michael Judge w/d–w/o Ian Burns Leo Fernandez w/d–w/o Robert Sax Brent Kolbeck w/d–w/o Declan Bristow Rogier van der Kamp 0–4 Jamie Walker Marc Davis 4–0 Thomas Valentin Stephen Craigie 4–0 Rüdiger Nickel Gary Wilson 4–1 Thomas Wacker Lee Farebrother w/d–w/o Jörg Petersen Jonathan Fulcher 0–4 Jamie O'Neill Martin Rösler 0–4 Ian Glover Christian Ozim 4–0 Ralph Enax James Welsh 4–1 Zen Beechey Angelo Losi 1–4 Xander van Rossum Frank Schröder 1–4 Martin O'Donnell Nick Jennings 4–0 Bernd Friedrich Nick Pearce w/d–w/o Stevo Vucicevic Stéphane Ochoïski 1–4 Robbie Williams Patrick Einsle 4–0 Mirko Groß Robert Drahn 0–4 Michael Wild Michael Peyr 0–4 Zhang Anda Nicole Breitenstein 0–4 Jörg Vortkort Lothar Kempgens 0–4 Ali Kirim 2–4 Kyren Wilson Saqib Nasir w/d–w/o Sydney Wilson

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Stefan Gerst 1–4 Sanderson Lam Liam Monk 4–1 Michael Wasley Chen Zhe 4–0 Norbert Hofheinz Gerrit bij de Leij 0–4 Steve Judd Lee Page 4–1 Andreas Ploner Christopher Henry 0–4 Kishan Hirani Chris Norbury 4–0 Rüdiger Fehrmann Phil Barnes 4–3 Lasse Münstermann Hans Blanckaert 4–1 Julian Treiber 0–4 Stefan Joachim Allan Taylor 2–4 Ben Harrison Michael Betzinger 0–4 Mitchell Travis Gareth Allen 2–4 Joe Delaney Sean O'Sullivan 4–0 Markus Stocker 0–4 Sam Harvey Andreas Pesch 0–4 Phil O’Kane

Brian Cox 4–0 Oliver Kremp Craig Steadman 4–3 Jak Jones Maurice Le Duc 1–4 Ashley Wright Christof Biniarsch 4–1 Patrick Rossmann Ian Burns 4–0 Robert Sax Declan Bristow 1–4 Jamie Walker Marc Davis 1–4 Stephen Craigie Gary Wilson 4–0 Jörg Petersen Jamie O'Neill 4–2 Ian Glover Christian Ozim 1–4 James Welsh Xander van Rossum 0–4 Martin O'Donnell Nick Jennings 4–0 Stevo Vucicevic Robbie Williams 4–0 Patrick Einsle Michael Wild 0–4 Zhang Anda Jörg Vortkort 3–4 Ali Kirim Kyren Wilson Sydney Wilson

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks Only from last 128 onwards.

147, 107, 103, 102 Ronnie O'Sullivan 142, 124 John Higgins 139, 103 Ding Junhui 135 Mark Davis 135 Liu Song 134, 117, 102 Neil Robertson 131, 106 Steve Davis 129, 105, 102 Jimmy Robertson 129 Jamie Cope 126, 119 Mark Selby 121 Adam Duffy 120 Jimmy White 112, 108, 100 Yu Delu

111 Andrew Higginson 110 Zhang Anda 109 David Gilbert 108 Robbie Williams 105 Marcus Campbell 104 Shaun Murphy 104 Matthew Stevens 103 Sam Craigie 103 Fergal O'Brien 102 Alfie Burden 102 Mike Dunn 102 Mark King 101 Sam Baird

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