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German Masters 2025: Draw and Results
Kyren Wilson won his third title of the season when just edging out Barry Hawkins in an extremely tight battle for the 2025 German Masters.
Wilson started well, winning the first two frames of the day but that was the only time in the match that any player was two frames in front. The first session was nip and tuck with both players scoring a century but with Hawkins ending the session with a 5-4 lead.
Wilson came back after the interval and won the first two frames of the evening but after that frames were shared until Wilson lead 9-8. In the eighteenth frame Hawkins held his nerve well for an excellent clearance to set up a final frame decider. Both players looked nervous intially but Wilson capitalised on a missed long red by Hawkins and put in a cool 59 break to take the title and the £100,000 first prize.
Winning the German Masters has cemented Kyren Wilson's position as number two in the world on the two-year rankings and he is now over half-a-million pounds in front of the third ranked player, Ronnie O'Sullivan .
Final - Best of nineteen frames:
Kyren Wilson v Barry Hawkins 10-9
Semi-Finals - best of eleven frames:
Xiao Guodong v Kyren Wilson 2-6
Yuan Sijun v Barry Hawkins 2-6
Quarter-Finals - Best of nine frames:
Neil Robertson v Yuan Sijun 4-5
Wu Yize v Barry Hawkins 3-5
Xiao Guodong v Aaron Hill 5-0
Anthony McGill v Kyren Wilson 4-5
Third Round - Best of nine frames:
Neil Robertson v Judd Trump 5-2
Shaun Murphy v Yuan Sijun 4-5
Wu Yize v Alexander Ursenbacher 5-2
Barry Hawkins w/o Ricky Walden (Walden withdrew due to medical reasons)
Xiao Guodong v Elliot Slessor 5-1
Tom Ford v Aaaron Hill 3-5
Zhang Anda v Anthony McGill 2-5
Kyren Wilson v Jak Jones 5-3
Second Round - Best of nine frames:
Judd Trump v Joe O'Connor 5-0
Hammad Miah v Neil Robertson 4-5
Yuan Sijun v Ross Muir 5-2
ThepchaiyaUn-Nooh v Shaun Murphy 0-5
Mark Allen v Wu Yize 4-5
Ali Carter v Alexander Ursenbacher 0-5
Ben Woollaston v Barry Hawkins 3-5
Ricky Walden v Dylan Emery 5-3
Mark Selby v Elliot Slessor 4-5
Si Jiahui v Xiao Guodong 4-5
Tom Ford v Daniel Wells 5-2
Jimmy Robertson v Aaron Hill 1-5
Luca Brecel v Anthony McGill 2-5
Zhang Anda v Robert Milkins 5-2
Jak Jones v John Higgins 3-5
Zhou Yuelong v Kyren Wilson 3-5
First Round (rankings in brackets):
Judd Trump (1) v David Grace (65) 5-2
Stephen Maguire (32) v Joe O'Connor (33) 1-5
Chris Wakelin (16) v Hammad Miah (80) 2-5
Neil Robertson (17) v Antoni Kowalski (98) 5-1
Yuan Sijun (41) w/o Hossein Vafaei (24)
Ross Muir (73) w/o Ding Junhui (9)
Stuart Bingham (25) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (40) 0-5
Shaun Murphy (8) v Liam Graham (97) 5-0
Mark Allen (5) v David Lilley (60) 5-0
Wu Yize (28) v Jackson Page (37) 5-1
Ali Carter (12) w/o He Guoqiang (53)
Jack Lisowski (21) v Alexander Ursenbacher (85) 3-5
David Gilbert (20) v Ben Woollaston (45) 0-5
Barry Hawkins (13) v Alfie Burden (77) 5-4
Ryan Day (29) v Ricky Walden (36) 3-5
Dylan Emery (a) w/o Ronnie O'Sullivan (4)
Mark Selby (3) v Liu Hongyu (62) 5-2
Elliot Slessor (30) v Lyu Haotian (35) 5-1
Si Jiahui (14) v Ken Doherty (121) 5-0
Xiao Guodong (19) v Fan Zhengyi (46) 5-3
Tom Ford (22) w/o Dominic Dale (43)
Noppon Saengkham (27) v Jimmy Robertson (38) 4-5
Mark Williams (6) v Aaron Hill (59) 2-5
Luca Brecel (7) v Jiang Jun (71) 5-2
Pang Junxu (26) v Anthony McGill (39) 4-5
Zhang Anda (10) v Graeme Dott (55) 5-4
Robert Milkins (23) v Xu Si (42) 5-4
Jak Jones (18) v Allan Taylor (102) 5-3
John Higgins (15) v Mark Davis (50) 5-3
Zhou Yuelong (31) v Artemijs Zizins (95) 5-2
Kyren Wilson (2) v Cheung Ka Wai (99) 5-3
The German Masters takes place in Berlin between the 27th January and the 2nd of February.
The qualifying rounds for this event took place in Sheffield between the 16th and 19th of December.
Five players withdrew before the start of the first round:
- Ronnie O'Sullivan
- Ding Junhui
- He Guoqiang
- Dominic Dale
- Hossein Vafaei
The scheduled opponents of the above players all received a bye through to the second round.
German Masters: History
The German Masters has been a ranking event since 2011 and for all but one of its renewals, it has been played at the 2000-seater Tempodrom in Berlin.
An earlier version of the event was played between 1995 and 1998 and the 1998 event was John Parrott's last major tournament win.
Judd Trump has three previous wins whilst Ali Carter and Mark Williams have both won the event twice.
The German Masters often throws up an unexpected winner as with Ali Carter (2023), Zhao Xintong (2022), Anthony Hamilton (2017) and Martin Gould (2016).
Due to the pandemic, the 2021 event had to be held in the UK at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes.
The table below outlines all the winners and runners-up of the German Masters since 2011:
| Year | Winner | Runner-Up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kyren Wilson | Barry Hawkins | 10-9 |
| 2024 | Judd Trump | Si Jiahui | 10-5 |
| 2023 | Ali Carter | Tom Ford | 10-3 |
| 2022 | Zhao Xintong | Yan Bingtao | 9-0 |
| 2021 | Judd Trump | Jack Lisowski | 9-2 |
| 2020 | Judd Trump | Neil Robertson | 9-6 |
| 2019 | Kyren Wilson | David Gilbert | 9-7 |
| 2018 | Mark Williams | Graeme Dott | 9-1 |
| 2017 | Anthony Hamilton | Ali Carter | 9-6 |
| 2016 | Martin Gould | Luca Brecel | 9-5 |
| 2015 | Mark Selby | Shaun Murphy | 9-7 |
| 2014 | Ding Junhui | Judd Trump | 9-5 |
| 2013 | Ali Carter | Marco Fu | 9-6 |
| 2012 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Stephen Maguire | 9-7 |
| 2011 | Mark Williams | Mark Selby | 9-7 |
German Masters 2025: Prizemoney
A total of £550,400 is up for grabs in Berlin this week for the German Masters. The breakdown of the prize fund is as follows:
- Winner: £100,000
- Runner-up: £45,000
- Semi-finalist: £21,000
- Quarter-finalist: £13,200
- Last sixteen: £9,000
- Last 32: £5,400
- Last 64: £3,600
- Highest break: £5,000
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Highest breaks in the German Masters
With a £5,000 prize on offer, the highest break is always hotly contested in every event but the German Masters has been a hotbed of maximum breaks with five 147s recorded in this event and one maximum every year for the last three years:
| Year | Player | Highest Break |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Si Jiahui | 145 |
| 2024 | Sam Craigie Jordan Brown | 142 142 |
| 2023 | Robert Milkins | 147 |
| 2022 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 147 |
| 2021 | Shaun Murphy | 147 |
| 2020 | Tom Ford | 143 |
| 2019 | David Gilbert | 139 |
| 2018 | Judd Trump | 140 |
| 2017 | Tom Ford | 147 |
| 2016 | Judd Trump | 125 |
| 2015 | Judd Trump | 147 |
| 2014 | Michael Holt | 143 |
| 2013 | Michael Holt | 144 |
| 2012 | Stephen Maguire | 130 |
| 2011 | John Higgins | 143 |
