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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]
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- ^ a b c "Yan Sets Up All-Chinese Final". World Snooker. 2022-01-29. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ "Zhao Destroys Yan In Berlin Final". World Snooker. 2022-01-30. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ "Zhao Xintong wraps up whitewash victory over Yan Bingtao to secure German Masters victory in Berlin". Eurosport. 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ World Snooker Tour (2021-10-22). "Un-Nooh Scores Third 147". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-22.