The 2022 German Masters (officially the 2022 BildBet German Masters) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 26 to 30 January 2022 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. The tournament was the ninth ranking event of the 2021–22 snooker season and the 16th edition of the German Masters, first held in 1995 as the German Open. The fifth of eight tournaments in the European Series, it was the first professional snooker tournament held outside the United Kingdom in almost two years, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Jack Lisowski 9–2 in the 2021 final. However, Trump lost 1–5 in the quarter-finals to Zhao Xintong, who went on to meet Yan Bingtao in the final. Aged 24 and 21 respectively, Zhao and Yan had the youngest combined age of any two ranking finalists since Neil Robertson played Jamie Cope at the 2006 Grand Prix. It was the second time that two players from mainland China contested a ranking final; the previous occasion was the 2013 Shanghai Masters final between Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong. Zhao whitewashed Yan 9–0 in the final to win the second ranking title of his career. He became the third player in professional snooker history, after Steve Davis at the 1989 Grand Prix and Robertson at the January 2020 European Masters, to win a two-session ranking final without conceding a frame.
The tournament's highest break was achieved by Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, who made the third maximum break of his career in his first qualifying round match against Fan Zhengyi. Prize fund The event features a total prize fund of £400,000 with the winner receiving £80,000. The event is the fifth of the eight events in the European Series, all sponsored by sports betting company BetVictor. (BildBet is BetVictor's German sports betting platform, launched in partnership with the German tabloid newspaper Bild.) The player accumulating the highest amount of prize money over the eight events will receive a bonus of £150,000."BetVictor Extends Involvement with WST". World Snooker Tour. 28 June 2021
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: £3,000 Highest break: £5,000 Total: £400,000
Main draw Below are the event's results from the last-32 stage to the final. Player names in bold denote match winners. Numbers in brackets denote player seedings.
Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Marcel EckardtTempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 30 January 2022. Zhao Xintong (25) 9–0 Yan Bingtao (15) Afternoon: 91–36, 71–38, 130–1 (118), 90–4, 89–33, 98–34, 70–60, 75–26 Evening: 63–31 118 Highest break 60 1 Century breaks 0
Qualifying Qualifying for the event took place between 18 and 26 October 2021 at the Chase Leisure Centre in Cannock, England. There were two rounds of qualifying, with matches being played as best-of-nine frames.
Century breaks
Main stage centuries
Total: 29
136, 108 Sam Craigie 135 Stephen Maguire 134, 104 Fan Zhengyi 130 Craig Steadman 130 Judd Trump 129, 120 Luca Brecel 124, 105 Ricky Walden 124 Shaun Murphy 122 Kurt Maflin 119 Mark Selby 118, 116, 107, 106, 104 Mark Allen 118, 100 Zhao Xintong 117, 107 Kyren Wilson 116 Yan Bingtao 112 Michael Georgiou 104, 102 Tom Ford 104 Liam Highfield 102 Ryan Day 101 Noppon Saengkham
Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 74
147 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 143 Peter Devlin 141, 136, 123, 114 Zhao Xintong 141 Alfie Burden 141 Hossein Vafaei 140 Joe O'Connor 140 Zhang Anda 138 Michael Georgiou 138 John Higgins 136 Lu Ning 135, 134, 103 Neil Robertson 134, 112 Mark Selby 133, 122, 120 Mark Allen 133, 104 Gary Wilson 133 Fan Zhengyi 132, 105, 105 Noppon Saengkham 130 Anthony Hamilton 128, 108 Cao Yupeng 128, 103 Mark Williams 125 Li Hang 125 Matthew Selt 123, 104, 104 Kyren Wilson 122, 102 Wu Yize 119, 104 Barry Hawkins 119 Mark Davis 118, 102, 100 Shaun Murphy 118 Yan Bingtao 113, 105 Ashley Hugill 113, 104 Jamie Jones 113 Hammad Miah 113 Barry Pinches 112, 101 Alexander Ursenbacher 111 Chang Bingyu 110, 104 Jack Lisowski 110 Jamie Clarke 109 Graeme Dott 109 Michael White 108, 103 Jak Jones 108 Anthony McGill 107, 107, 102 Ricky Walden 104 Pang Junxu 103, 100 Yuan Sijun 102 Zhou Yuelong 101 Sunny Akani 101 Lyu Haotian 100, 100 Judd Trump
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