2014 German Masters
The German Masters 2014 was a snooker tournament of Snooker Main Tour of the Season 2013 / 14th It was held from January 29 to February 2, 2014 at the Tempodrom in Berlin. Defending champion was the Englishman Allister Carter, however, as his opponent in the final of last year's Marco Fu from Hong Kong, was eliminated in the first round.
Because of the enlarged main round this time eight games were completed per session. Seven tables were set up in the Great Arena, the last eighth table stood in the small arena. This configuration remained until the quarterfinals receive, only three tables were there then covered. only to the semi-finals were all the tables, except for the center court, degraded.
The departure of favorites stopped on the second match. Thus, the world number one Neil Robertson escaped in the fifth set - Tian Pengfei led 4-0 - only just a " white- wash", as he could save in a sixth set to the then but the Chinese could transform itself to victory. Also eliminated Mark Selby, Stephen Maguire and former world champion John Higgins and Mark Williams from.
First in the history of snooker quarter -finals will be completely denied by German referee. According to Jan Verhaas the WPBSA wants to give the so far very good performance of the German recognition and decided to take this step.
The winner was Ding Junhui, Judd Trump beat of his opponent in the final with 9:5. Trump initially led 4-2. To break it was 4-4, Trump then lost only three frames before he was able to score again. His playing was often too fast and to the Chinese to be able to stand up too imprecise. After some balanced games thing could win the match for himself in the 16th frame. He was so after 23 years the only player who managed to win four tournaments in one season. The last time this was Stephen Hendry 1990/1991 succeeded.
Prize money and world ranking points
Seeded players who lost their first game, received only half of the points ( in the table in parentheses).
Main Round
Final
Qualification
Qualifying took place on 11 and 12 December 2013 Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England instead. All games were played on " Best of 9" frames.
Century- Breaks
Qualifying round
Main Round
Others
Ronnie O'Sullivan, who was eliminated in the qualifying round, went to a book signing for a special trip to Berlin. But he has just signed his own books that you had to buy one from the same time. Following it was possible for € 20 per head with him and the German Masters Cup - to be photographed - he had won the tournament in 2012. The queue was about 30 m long and partially blocked the input or output, so the staff had to ensure orderly conditions.