German Masters 2011
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German Masters 2011
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Tempodrom , Berlin |
| Opening: | February 2, 2011 |
| Endgame: | February 6, 2011
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| Winner: |
 Mark Williams
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| Highest Break: | 143 ( John Higgins )
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The German Masters 2011 was a snooker tournament that was held from February 2 to 6, 2011 in the Berlin Tempodrom . It was the first Main Tour ranking tournament in Germany since 1997.
General
13 years after the last German Masters and 14 years after the last world ranking tournament in Germany (German Open) , a professional snooker tournament took place again in Germany in 2011. When the snooker association wanted to add several events to the tournament calendar in the 2010/11 season , the German capital was also chosen as the venue. It is true that snooker is not as strongly represented in Germany, neither in popular nor in top-class sport, as in Great Britain, Ireland or China. But snooker is a popular television sport that is regularly broadcast by German sports channels. The 2,500 seats in the Tempodrom were largely sold out on weekdays and completely sold out on weekends.
The arrangement of the five tournament tables in the circular event area was unusual for a professional tournament. Tables 2 to 5 were arranged in a circle around the main table. This was only separated from the other tables by a waist-high partition so that the audience had a clear view of the arena.
The journalist and commentator Rolf Kalb , who is extremely popular with German snooker fans and respected by the stars , acted as a "Master of Ceremonies" in addition to his television moderation at Eurosport, who gave the referee and the actors of a game a small announcement on the stage before it began as well as introducing the sponsors and officials at the award ceremony and briefly interviewing the players. This made Rolf Kalb known to a larger audience in front of the camera.
Prize money / world ranking points
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Round reached Highest break total |
Prize money € 2,000 € 280,000 |
World ranking points
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Finals
Wildcard round
Six of the eight players who were allowed to participate by wildcard were awarded to the continental Europeans with the best results as part of the EPTC tournaments. Stefan Kasper received another wild card as the reigning German champion. The eighth wildcard was awarded to Daniel Wells by the WPBSA . Opponents were the eight worst placed qualifiers of the Main Tour.
| game | Qualifier (place to sit) | Result | Wildcard player |
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| WC1 |
 Anthony Hamilton (39)
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5: 1 |
 Pavel Leyk
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| WC2 |
 Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon (85)
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5: 3 |
 Tomasz Skalski
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| WC3 |
Jack Lisowski (62)
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5: 2 |
Luca Brecel
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| WC4 |
 Liu Song (71)
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2: 5 |
Daniel Wells
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| WC5 |
Nigel Bond (37)
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5: 2 |
Stefan Kasper
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| WC6 |
Anthony McGill (56)
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 Mario Wehrmann
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| WC7 |
 Joe Swail (45)
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5-0 |
Hans Blanckaert
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| WC8 |
Robert Milkins (36)
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5: 1 |
Let Münstermann
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Final round
The beginning of the tournament was overshadowed by the death of the father of world number one John Higgins , who withdrew from the tournament after the news had arrived. With Neil Robertson , who arrived shortly before the start of his first round game and then eliminated, and Ronnie O'Sullivan , who had not even started, three top seeded players were early out of the tournament. With Shaun Murphy and Allister Carter , two other top 8 players failed in the round of 16.
The top game in the quarterfinals was the encounter between Mark Selby and Ding Junhui , who had won the Masters three weeks earlier . Both had convinced in their previous games. The game was hotly contested, even if the Englishman finally won clearly 5-1. Selby met Graeme Dott, who had also been convincing up until then, in the semifinals . The second semi-final was played by Mark Williams and Marco Fu . Both had recently shown increasing form and were in the finals of the two tournaments around the turn of the year. The Hong Kong Chinese, who was able to keep up at the beginning, finally had to admit defeat to the Welshman. Much longer and more competitive was the second semi-final, which Mark Selby won 6: 4 after a 3: 4 deficit.
The final between Williams and Selby was balanced at the beginning, only at the end of the afternoon session did the Welshman have two frames ahead for the first time. Williams, who had already been in the final of the last German Masters in 1998, was even able to pull away to 6: 3 and 7: 4 in the evening before Selby equalized again to 7: 7. In a hard-fought 15th frame, however, Williams had the better end for himself and with an 82 break he was finally able to make the tournament victory perfect with the following frame. With 5,000 points, he moved up to second place in the preliminary world rankings.
final
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Final: Best of 17 Tempodrom , Berlin , Germany , February 6, 2011 |
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Mark Selby
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Mark Williams
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Afternoon games : 92 : 0 ( 82 ), 0: 84 ( 56 ), 0: 108 ( 108 ), 99 : 1, 0: 81 , 71 : 0 ( 63 ), 42: 83 ( 53 ), 0: 105 ( 105 ) Evening Games : 46: 71 , 54 : 41, 0: 121 ( 96 ), 70 : 27, 83 : 7 ( 60 ), 70 : 45, 49: 76 , 0: 83 ( 82 ) |
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| 82 | Highest break | 108 |
| 0 | Century Breaks | 2 |
| 3 | 50+ breaks | 6th |
qualification
The qualification took place between December 14th and 17th, 2010 in Sheffield .
Century Breaks
At the German Masters in 2011 there were a total of 49 Centuries, 31 in the qualification and 18 in the finals in Berlin.
Finals
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Qualifying round
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report to Eurosport from December 11, 2010
- ↑ The Dutchman Maurice Le Duc was planned, who had qualified as one of the six players via the EPTC ranking list. However, he withdrew and was replaced by the 13-year-old Berliner.
- ↑ Wells Handed Berlin Place (World Snooker) ( Memento from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d without a fight because the opponent did not start
- ↑ Dominic Dale continued without a fight because O'Sullivan had withdrawn ( O'Sullivan Withdraws From German Masters , message on worldsnooker.com ( Memento from August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Higgins gives up ( John Higgins withdraws , message on worldsnooker.com ( Memento of August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Results of the qualification at worldsnooker.com ( Memento from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 2011 German Masters - Centuries , CueTracker, accessed on February 18, 2017
