The 2017 German Masters (officially the 2017 F66.com German Masters) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 February 2017 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. It was the twelfth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.

Martin Gould was the defending champion but he lost 2–6 against Ali Carter in the semi-finals.

Tom Ford made the 128th official maximum break and the third of his career in the second frame of his 5–2 win over Peter Ebdon in the first round. Maximum breaks had already been made in the qualifying rounds by both Ali Carter and Ross Muir.

Anthony Hamilton defeated Carter 9–6 to capture his first ranking title in his 26-year career, having trailed 2–5. At the age of 45, he also became the oldest ranking event winner since Doug Mountjoy was 46 winning the Classic in 1989.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: €80,000 Runner-up: €35,000 Semi-final: €20,000 Quarter-final: €10,000 Last 16: €5,000 Last 32: €4,000 Last 64: €2,000

Highest break: €4,000 Total: €367,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000 (€13,300).

Main draw

Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore.Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 5 February 2017. Ali Carter 6–9 Anthony Hamilton Afternoon: 61–31, 69–1, , , , , , Evening: 15–66, 1–118 (118), , , , , 100 Highest break 118 1 Century breaks 1 3 50+ breaks 6

Qualifying These matches were played between 6 and 9 December 2016 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.

Ali Carter made the 125th official maximum break in the fourth frame of his round 1 qualifying match against Wang Yuchen. It was Carter's second professional maximum break. On the same day, Ross Muir made the 126th official maximum break in the third frame of his round 1 qualifying match against Itaro Santos. It was Muir's first professional maximum break.

Round 1

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

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

Round 2

Martin Gould 5–1 Craig Steadman Jamie Jones 5–2 James Cahill Kyren Wilson 4–5 John Astley Ricky Walden 5–1 Robbie Williams Robert Milkins 3–5 Ryan Day Adam Duffy 2–5 Mark Allen Matthew Stevens 3–5 Robin Hull Jimmy White 5–3 Joe Perry Judd Trump 1–5 Tom Ford Matthew Selt 4–5 Peter Ebdon Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 Gary Wilson Mark King 5–3 Andrew Higginson Noppon Saengkham 4–5 Stephen Maguire Ross Muir 4–5 Ali Carter Jack Lisowski 4–5 Sunny Akani Zhao Xintong 5–1 John Higgins

Stuart Bingham 5–3 Yu Delu Mark Davis 3–5 Zhang Yong Marco Fu 5–1 Adam Stefanow David Gilbert 5–2 Allan Taylor Igor Figueiredo 3–5 Michael Holt Stuart Carrington 5–1 Sam Craigie Alex Borg 1–5 Dominic Dale Yan Bingtao 5–4 Shaun Murphy Neil Robertson 5–1 Christopher Keogan Ben Woollaston 5–1 Tian Pengfei Barry Hawkins 5–0 Jak Jones Michael White 5–4 Liam Highfield Boonyarit Keattikun 3–5 Anthony Hamilton Mark Joyce 4–5 Mark Williams Aditya Mehta 4–5 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Fang Xiongman 0–5 Mark Selby

Century breaks

Televised stage centuries Total: 16

147 Tom Ford 137, 126 Martin Gould 132, 104 Ryan Day 129 Stuart Bingham 125 Robin Hull 118 Anthony Hamilton

117, 112, 101, 100 Ali Carter 117 Ben Woollaston 115 Yan Bingtao 103 Zhao Xintong 100 Mark Selby

Qualifying stage centuries Total: 56

147, 106 Ali Carter 147 Ross Muir 140, 101 Stuart Carrington 139, 123 Michael Georgiou 138 Zhao Xintong 136 Jamie Jones 135, 101 Robin Hull 135 Alfie Burden 133, 127, 117, 106 Shaun Murphy 132 Marco Fu 131, 120 Mark Selby 129 Michael White 128 Itaro Santos 128 Matthew Selt 126 Scott Donaldson 125, 110 David Gilbert 124, 109 Tian Pengfei 122, 112 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 119 Jack Lisowski 118, 109, 102 Sunny Akani 118 Mei Xiwen 116 Matthew Stevens

116 Fergal O'Brien 114 Kyren Wilson 113 Xiao Guodong 113 Mark King 112 Luca Brecel 112 Judd Trump 107 Joe Perry 107 Robert Milkins 106 Ben Woollaston 105 Mark Allen 105 Ronnie O'Sullivan 105 Dominic Dale 104 Sean O'Sullivan 104 Joe Swail 102 Aditya Mehta 102 Rory McLeod 102 Gary Wilson 101 Ricky Walden 101 Liam Highfield 101 John Astley 101 Mark Joyce

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