2011 German Masters
The German Masters 2011 was a snooker tournament, which was held from 2nd to 6th February 2011 at the Berlin Tempodrom. It was the first Main Tour ranking event in Germany since 1997.
- 5.1 final
- 5.2 qualifying round
General
13 years after the last German Masters and 14 years after the last world ranking event in Germany ( German Open) a professional snooker tournament in Germany took place again in 2011. When they wanted in the season 2010/11 on the part of Snooker Association expand the tournament calendar for more events, was chosen as the venue for the German capital. Although Snooker is neither in width nor in professional sports like better represented than in the UK, Ireland and China in Germany. For Snooker is a popular television sport that is transmitted periodically by the German sports channels. Thus, the 2,500 seats in the Tempodrom on weekdays were also largely and completely sold out at the weekend.
Unusually for a professional tournament was the preparation of the five tournament tables in the round of meeting space. So the tables 2 to 5 were arranged in a circle around the main table. This was only separated by a waist-high differentiation from the other tables, so that the spectators had a clear view over the arena.
The at the German snooker fans extremely popular and respected even by the stars journalist and commentator Rolf Kalb acted alongside his television moderation in euro sport also as "Master of Ceremonies ", which the referee and the players in a game before it starts with a small announcement on stage asks and at the awards ceremony, the sponsors and officials and introduces the players interviewed briefly. This Rolf Kalb to a wider audience became well known before the camera.
Prize money / world ranking points
Achievements round tournament victory final semifinal quarterfinals Last 16 Last 32 Last 48
Highest Break
Total
Purse € 50,000 € 30,000 € 15,000 € 9,000 € 6,000 € 3,750 € 1,500
€ 2,000
€ 280,000
Ranking Points 5000 4000 3,200 2500 1900 1400 1150
Finals
Wildcard Round
Six of the eight players who were allowed to participate by wildcard, were awarded under the EPTC tournaments on the continental Europeans with the best results. Another wildcard went to Stefan Kasper as the reigning German champions. The eighth wildcard was given by the WPBSA to Daniel Wells. Opponents were the eight lowest-ranked qualifier of the main tour.
Final round
Was overshadowed the start of the tournament from the Father of the world number one John Higgins, who retired after the arrival of the news of the death tournament. With Neil Robertson, who had arrived after arriving difficulties just before the start of his first round game and then excreted, and Ronnie O'Sullivan, who had not even started, there were three top seeded players early from the tournament. With Shaun Murphy and Allister Carter two other top 8 players failed in the second round.
The top game in the quarterfinals was the encounter between Mark Selby and Ding Junhui, who had previously won the Masters three weeks. Both were confident in their previous games. The match was contested, although the Englishman finally clearly won with 5:1. Selby met in the semifinals of the until then also convincing Graeme Dott. The second semi-final denied Mark Williams and Marco Fu. Both had recently showed improving form and were both standing in the two tournaments around the turn of the year in the final. The Hong Kong Chinese who could keep up at the beginning still, finally had to admit defeat to the Welsh. Significantly longer and contested was the second semi-final, the Mark Selby still won by 3:4 residue with 6:4.
The final between Williams and Selby designed balanced at the beginning, until the end of the afternoon session had the Welsh first two frames ahead. Williams, who had already been in the finals of the last German Masters in 1998, then was able to pull away on 6:3 and 7:4 in the evening even before Selby back to 7:7 equalizer away. In a highly competitive 15 frame but Williams had the better end and with a 82s -break he could do with the following frame eventually win the tournament perfectly. With 5,000 points, he moved in the provisional world rankings to No. 2.
Final
Qualification
The qualification took place in Sheffield between the 14th and 17th December 2010.
Century Breaks
Finals
Qualifying round