2024 BetVictor German Masters
Tournament information
Dates29 January – 4 February 2024 (2024-01-29 – 2024-02-04)
VenueTempodrom
CityBerlin
CountryGermany
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£427,000
Winner's share£80,000
Defending champion Ali Carter (ENG)
← 2023

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 10‍–‍3 in the 2023 final.[1]

Format

The event is held at the Tempodrom in Berlin.

The event is scheduled to take place from 29 January to 4 February 2024 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany.[2][3] After the success of record crowds at the previous edition, the 2024 event will be extended from five to seven days.[2] 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 frames 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 sessions.[3][4]

Broadcasters

The qualifying matches were broadcast by Discovery+ in Europe and the UK; Migu and Huya in China; and Matchroom.live in all other territories.[5][6]

Prize fund

The event will feature a total prize fund of £427,000 with the winner receiving £80,000.[6]

  • 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 whitewashed their respective opponents Jenson Kendrick, Andres Petrov, and Dominic Dale 5‍–‍0. Lyu Haotian led Si Jiahui 4‍–‍0 with breaks 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 5‍–‍4.[7]
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 5‍–‍2. He Guoqiang won frame eight on a re-spotted black against John Astley to force a decider, which He won with a century break of 111 for a 5‍–‍4 victory. 16th seed Jack Lisowski made a century break of 102 in the seventh frame, but was defeated by Zak Surety 5‍–‍3.[8]
On 20 December, Liam Pullen defeated 24th seed Stuart Bingham 5‍–‍1, and Scott Donaldson narrowly beat 20th seed Gary Wilson 5‍–‍4 on the last black.[9]
On 21 December, 21st seed Zhou Yuelong beat Jak Jones 5‍–‍4, 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 5‍–‍0, and 28th seed Stephen Maguire beat Rebecca Kenna 5‍–‍1.[10]
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 5‍–‍0. Ashley Carty defeated 25th seed Noppon Saengkham 5‍–‍2. Tian Pengfei came back from 2‍–‍4 down to beat Reanne Evans 5‍–‍4.[11][4]

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.[12][13]

Top half

Last 64
Best of 9 frames 		Last 32
Best of 9 frames 		Last 16
Best of 9 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
          
 Ali Carter (ENG) (1) OR
 Michael White (WAL)
 Peng Yisong (CHN)
 
 
 Pang Junxu (CHN) (32)
 Haydon Pinhey (ENG)
 
 
 Zak Surety (ENG)
 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI)
 
 
 Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (17)
 Elliot Slessor (ENG)
 
 
 Sam Craigie (ENG)
 Liam Pullen (ENG)
 
 
 He Guoqiang (CHN)
 Mark Williams (WAL) (9)
 
 
 Graeme Dott (SCO)
 Ashley Carty (ENG)
 
 
 Andrew Higginson (ENG)
 Shaun Murphy (ENG) (8) OR
 Xu Si (CHN)
 
 
 Mark Allen (NIR) (5) OR
 Manasawin Phetmalaikul (THA)
 Louis Heathcote (ENG)
 
 
 Stephen Maguire (SCO) (28)
 Joe O'Connor (ENG)
 
 
 John Higgins (SCO) (12)
 Martin Gould (ENG)
 
 
 Zhou Yuelong (CHN) (21)
 Tian Pengfei (CHN)
 
 
 Jamie Clarke (WAL)
 Scott Donaldson (SCO)
 
 
 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA)
 Zhang Anda (CHN) (13)
 
 
 Martin O'Donnell (ENG)
 Matthew Selt (ENG) (29)
 
 
 Matthew Stevens (WAL)
 Judd Trump (ENG) (4) OR
 Lukas Kleckers (GER)

Bottom half

Last 64
Best of 9 frames 		Last 32
Best of 9 frames 		Last 16
Best of 9 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
          
 Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (3) OR
 Julien Leclercq (BEL)
 Ken Doherty (IRL)
 
 
 David Gilbert (ENG) (30)
 Jordan Brown (NIR)
 
 
 Robert Milkins (ENG) (14)
 Robbie Williams (ENG)
 
 
 Ryan Day (WAL) (19)
 Oliver Brown (ENG)
 
 
 Andrew Pagett (WAL)
 Chris Wakelin (ENG) (22)
 
 
 Aaron Hill (IRL)
 Yuan Sijun (CHN)
 
 
 Mark Joyce (ENG)
 Si Jiahui (CHN) (27)
 
 
 Alfie Davies (WAL)
 Mark Selby (ENG) (6) OR
 Marco Fu (HKG)
 
 
 Neil Robertson (AUS) (7) OR
 Sanderson Lam (ENG)
 Jimmy Robertson (ENG)
 
 
 Joe Perry (ENG) (26)
 Xing Zihao (CHN)
 
 
 Kyren Wilson (ENG) (10)
 Ben Woollaston (ENG)
 
 
 Ricky Walden (ENG) (23)
 David Lilley (ENG)
 
 
 Xiao Guodong (CHN)
 Tom Ford (ENG) (18)
 
 
 Mark Davis (ENG)
 Barry Hawkins (ENG) (15)
 
 
 Ben Mertens (BEL)
 Fan Zhengyi (CHN) (31)
 
 
 Liu Hongyu (CHN)
 Luca Brecel (BEL) (2) OR
 Ishpreet Singh Chadha (IND)

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.[14][4][6]

Berlin

The held-over matches to be played in Berlin on 29 January are as follows:[15][4]

Sheffield

The results of the qualifying matches played in Sheffield were as follows:[15][4]

18 December

19 December

20 December

21 December

22 December

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

A total of 30 century breaks were made in the qualifying stage of the tournament.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Carter victory ends title drought". World Snooker Tour. 5 February 2023. Archived from the original on 2 April 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 "BetVictor German Masters". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 "BetVictor German Masters (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "German Masters qualifiers (2023)". snooker.org. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "How to watch BetVictor German Masters qualifiers". World Snooker Tour. 15 December 2023. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 "German Masters snooker qualifying: How to watch and who is playing". Eurosport. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Si beats Lyu from 4–0 down". World Snooker Tour. 18 December 2023. Archived from the original on 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Lisowski and Ding knocked out". World Snooker Tour. 19 December 2023. Archived from the original on 20 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Wilson streak ended by Donaldson". World Snooker Tour. 20 December 2023. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "Maguire and Vafaei through to Berlin". World Snooker Tour. 21 December 2023. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Tian battles back to beat Evans". World Snooker Tour. 22 December 2023. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "BetVictor German Masters draw". World Snooker Tour. 13 December 2023. Archived from the original on 13 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  13. ↑ "BetVictor German Masters (2024) bracket". snooker.org. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  14. ↑ "BetVictor German Masters 2024 qualifiers" (PDF). World Snooker Tour. 11 December 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  15. 1 2 3 "World Snooker – Live Scores". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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