2022 German Masters
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 26–30 January 2022 |
| Venue | Tempodrom |
| City | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £400,000 |
| Winner's share | £80,000 |
| Highest break |  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA) (147) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Zhao Xintong (CHN) |
| Runner-up | Yan Bingtao (CHN) |
| Score | 9–0 |
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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.[1] 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.[2]
Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Jack Lisowski 9–2 in the 2021 final.[3] However, Trump lost 1–5 in the quarter-finals to Zhao Xintong,[4] who went on to meet Yan Bingtao in the final.[5] 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.[5] 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.[5] Zhao whitewashed Yan 9–0 in the final to win the second ranking title of his career.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9]) The player accumulating the highest amount of prize money over the eight events will receive a bonus of £150,000.[10]
- 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 Eckardt Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 30 January 2022. | ||
| Zhao Xintong (25) China |
9–0 | Yan Bingtao (15) China |
| 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 |
