The qualifiers for the German Masters concluded on Thursday with 32 gamers becoming a member of subsequent month’s fundamental attract Berlin.
The highest 32 gamers from the official world rankings record already loved seeding by means of to the venue phases on the Tempodrom.
However the remaining contenders first needed to attend the preliminary part of the 2024/25 season’s twelfth rating occasion this week in Sheffield.
Among the many gamers who safely superior from the German Masters qualifiers was 2018 runner-up Graeme Dott, who comfortably beat Xing Zihao with a whitewash show.
Fellow former world champion Ken Doherty additionally made it by means of, the Irishman profitable his first two video games of the marketing campaign with back-to-back deciding-frame victories over Oliver Strains and Jordan Brown.
Confirmed rating occasion winners Ricky Walden, Dominic Dale, and Anthony McGill progressed as effectively along with Fan Zhengyi, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, and Jimmy Robertson.
There was disappointment for Lei Peifan, nevertheless, who instantly got here crashing again all the way down to earth following his shock success finally week’s Scottish Open – shedding 5-3 to Allan Taylor.
Former German Masters champion Anthony Hamilton’s 5-2 defeat to Cheung Ka Wai implies that the 53 year-old’s provisional end-of-season rating stands at a lowly 65.
Solely the highest 64 are assured tour survival, placing the Sheriff’s close to 34-year profession as an expert in jeopardy.
In an excellent worse scenario is Joe Perry, who’s languishing means down at quantity 76 on the provisional end-of-season standings after shedding 5-4 to Ross Muir.
Elsewhere, latest Snooker Shoot Out runner-up Liam Graham gained his two qualifying bouts 5-4 having at one stage trailed Ma Hailong 4-0 in his preliminary fixture.
Reigning ladies’s world champion Bai Yulu and all-time legend Reanne Evans gained their round-of-128 ties however fell on the following hurdle to Yuan Sijun and Joe O’Connor respectively.
The total record of outcomes on the German Masters qualifiers is beneath.
The 2025 German Masters runs from January twenty seventh to Feburary 2nd on the Tempodrom in Berlin.
German Masters Qualifiers
Outcomes
Spherical of 128
David Grace 5-0 Anton Kazakov
Reanne Evans 5-3 Amir Sarkhosh
Hammad Miah 5-3 Chris Totten
Antoni Kowalski 5-4 Ian Burns
Bai Yulu 5-4 Liam Pullen
Ross Muir 5-0 Robbie McGuigan
Paul Deaville w/o Andrew Pagett
Liam Graham 5-4 Ma Hailong
Liam Davies 5-2 Ishpreet Singh Chadha
Sunny Akani 5-3 Hatem Yassen
Rory Thor 5-3 Haris Tahir
Alexander Ursenbacher 5-1 Jonas Luz
Wang Yuchen 5-4 Andrew Higginson
Alfie Burden 5-3 Mostafa Dorgham
Dean Younger 5-2 Joshua Cooper
Dylan Emery 5-2 Louis Heathcote
Farakh Ajaib 5-3 Ashley Carty
Bulcsu Revesz 5-2 Baipat Siripaporn
Ken Doherty 5-4 Oliver Strains
Gong Chenzhi 5-3 Mink Nutcharut
Zak Surety 5-1 Simon Blackwell
Stuart Carrington 5-0 Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Joshua Thomand 5-4 Ben Mertens
Stan Moody 5-0 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Jiang Jun 5-1 Huang Jiahao
Haydon Pinhey 5-2 Duane Jones
Xing Zihao 5-1 Mitchell Mann
Julien Leclercq 5-2 Jimmy White
Allan Taylor 5-3 Lei Peifan
Iulian Boiko 5-2 Michael Holt
Artemijs Zizins 5-4 Kreishh Gurbaxani
Cheung Ka Wai 5-3 Marco Fu
Spherical of 96
David Grace 5-3 Lengthy Zehuang
Joe O’Connor 5-1 Reanne Evans
Hammad Miah 5-2 Matthew Stevens
Antoni Kowalski 5-0 Martin O’Donnell
Yuan Sijun 5-1 Bai Yulu
Ross Muir 5-4 Joe Perry
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-3 Paul Deaville
Liam Graham 5-4 Sanderson Lam
David Lilley 5-0 Liam Davies
Jackson Web page 5-1 Sunny Akani
He Guoqiang 5-4 Rory Thor
Alexander Ursenbacher 5-2 Scott Donaldson
Ben Woollaston 5-2 Wang Yuchen
Alfie Burden 5-0 Jamie Jones
Ricky Walden 5-3 Dean Younger
Dylan Emery 5-4 Jamie Clarke
Liu Hongyu 5-3 Farakh Ajaib
Lyu Haotian 5-3 Bulcsu Revesz
Ken Doherty 5-4 Jordan Brown
Fan Zhengyi 5-3 Gong Chenzhi
Dominic Dale 5-3 Zak Surety
Daniel Wells 5-3 Stuart Carrington
Jimmy Robertson 5-2 Joshua Thomand
Aaron Hill 5-4 Stan Moody
Jiang Jun 5-2 Tian Pengfei
Anthony McGill 5-0 Haydon Pinhey
Graeme Dott 5-0 Xing Zihao
Xu Si 5-1 Julien Leclercq
Allan Taylor 5-2 Robbie Williams
Mark Davis 5-1 Iulian Boiko
Artemijs Zizins 5-4 Matthew Selt
Cheung Ka Wai 5-2 Anthony Hamilton
2025 German Masters draw
Spherical of 64 (bo9)
Judd Trump vs David Grace
Stephen Maguire vs Joe O’Connor
Chris Wakelin vs Hammad Miah
Neil Robertson vs Antoni Kowalski
Hossein Vafaei vs Yuan Sijun
Ding Junhui vs Ross Muir
Stuart Bingham vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Shaun Murphy vs Liam Graham
Mark Allen vs David Lilley
Wu Yize vs Jackson Web page
Ali Carter ve He Guoqiang
Jack Lisowski vs Alexander Ursenbacher
David Gilbert vs Ben Woollaston
Barry Hawkins vs Alfie Burden
Ryan Day vs Ricky Walden
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Dylan Emery
Mark Selby vs Liu Hongyu
Elliot Slessor vs Liu Haotian
Si Jiahui vs Ken Doherty
Xiao Guodong vs Fan Zhengyi
Tom Ford vs Dominic Dale
Gary Wilson vs Daniel Wells
Noppon Saengkham vs Jimmy Robertson
Mark Williams vs Aaron Hill
Luca Brecel vs Jiang Jun
Pang Junxu vs Anthony McGill
Zhang Anda vs Graeme Dott
Robert Milkins vs Xu Si
Jak Jones vs Allan Taylor
John Higgins vs Mark Davis
Zhou Yuelong vs Artemijs Zizins
Kyren Wilson vs Cheung Ka Wai
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