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Snooker tournament
The 2012 German Masters (officially the 2012 PartyPoker.net German Masters) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 February 2012 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. This was the first time that PartyPoker.net sponsored the event.[1]
Mike Dunn made the 79th official maximum break during his round 1 qualifying match against Kurt Maflin. This was Dunn's first 147 break.[2] Stephen Hendry missed the final stage of a ranking event for the first time in 15 years after losing 1–5 to James Wattana in the final qualifying round.[3]
Mark Williams was the defending champion,[4] but he lost in the quarter-finals 3–5 against Stephen Lee.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 23rd ranking title by defeating Stephen Maguire 9–7 in the final.[5][6][7]
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[8]
- Winner: €50,000
- Runner-up: €30,000
- Semi-final: €15,000
- Quarter-final: €9,000
- Last 16: €6,000
- Last 32: €3,750
- Last 48: €1,500
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- Stage two highest break: €2,000
- Total: €280,000
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These matches were played in Berlin on 1 February 2012.[9][10][11]
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Ronnie O’Sullivan and Stephen Maguire behind the trophy before the last session of the final. In the background the referee Michaela Tabb.
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Michaela Tabb. Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 5 February 2012.[11][12]
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (14)
England
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9–7
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Stephen Maguire (9)
Scotland
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Afternoon: 111–26 (111), 0–130 (130), 8–106 (106), 5–132 (128), 58–73 (O'Sullivan 58), 63–8, 20–69 (55), 75–24 (75) Evening: 0–115 (69), 89–47 (89), 78–0 (54), 68–59 (Maguire 52), 94–37 (67), 75–31, 43–82 (82), 66–41
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111
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Highest break
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130
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1
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Century breaks
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3
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6
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50+ breaks
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7
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These matches were held between 21 and 25 November 2011 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.[13][14][15] Matches were over 9 frames.
Qualifying stage centuries
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Televised stage centuries
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Stephen Maguire played the highest century of the televised stage with 130.
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