German Masters Snooker 2025 – Tournament Outright Tips and Betting Preview

The snooker circuit heads to another popular venue for the next week as the Tempodrom in Berlin hosts the German Masters, one of the better events of the year and one which is a week long event for the second time.

Judd Trump enjoyed the extended format a year ago and he will be back in Berlin looking to add the German Masters title to the UK Championship one and others he has won this term. A good field will be out to stop him.

Recent Winners

2024 – Judd Trump

2023 – Ali Carter

2022 – Zhao Xintong

2021 – Judd Trump

2020 – Judd Trump

2019 – Kyren Wilson

2018 – Mark Williams

2017 – Anthony Hamilton

2016 – Martin Gould

2015 – Mark Selby

The Format

The format for the German Masters has changed this year. The top 32 players in the rankings have bypassed the qualifying competition and will face one of the qualifiers in the first round of the event. The draw is in order of the rankings and is a straight knockout. The first round through to the quarter finals take place over the best of nine frames. The two semi-finals are the best of 11 frames on the Saturday and the trophy will be won over the best of 17 frames in the Sunday final. The winner pockets £100,000.

Top Quarter

The defending champion Judd Trump is also the number one in the world and he is the top seed in the draw this week and right at the top of the draw bracket for the tournament. The defending champion has had his task of progressing made slightly easier with one of the other three top 16 players in the section withdrawing in the form of Ding Junhui. That leaves The Masters champion Shaun Murphy and the International Championship runner up Chris Wakelin as top 16 players in this quarter.

There are no shortage of decent names in the quarter of those who aren’t in the top 16 in the world. Neil Robertson is a former finalist in this tournament but he’ll be aiming to win it for the first time in this section while Stuart Bingham and Stephen Maguire are other household names on show. Hossein Vafaei and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh are two from Asia who could go well here while Joe O’Connor and Yuan Sijun are potential sleepers.

Second Quarter

Ronnie O’Sullivan was due to be the leading seed in the second quarter but to the surprise of nobody he has withdrawn from the event which leaves The Masters semi-finalist Mark Allen as the main man in this part of the bracket. He is joined in the quarter by two top 16 players and they are the former champion of this event in Ali Carter and the man who has a couple of frames away from winning the UK Championship last month in Barry Hawkins.

This is a really competitive quarter of the draw because it has class acts like Dave Gilbert and Jack Lisowski in it and they are both capable of taking a tournament like this down while Wu Yize has made two Home Nations finals this term so he is clearly competent. Ryan Day can beat anyone when he is on it as well. Among the qualifiers are Jackson Page and Ricky Walden with Alexander Ursenbacher hoping to do it for European snooker in Germany.


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Third Quarter

Mark Selby has been in decent form over the course of the season and he is the highest seed in the third quarter this week. He is on a collision course with the former champion Mark Williams in the quarter final and it could very well be that those two do meet in the last eight because the other top 16 players in the section are bang out of form. Gary Wilson basically admitted his game is in pieces at The Masters recently while Si Jiahui hasn’t done much since he lost the Wuhan Open final to Xiao Guodong.

If there are players who will stop Selby meeting Williams in the last 16 we probably need to look at the Wuhan Open champion Xiao Guodong or the Shootout winner Tom Ford. The latter has a bye into the last 32 which will help him while the former has been in good form over the last three months. Noppon Saengkham is another dangerous challenger while Elliot Slessor, Fan Zhengyi and Jimmy Robertson have all shown their class at times in their career.

Bottom Quarter

This is where the world champion Kyren Wilson will look to win a second German Masters crown from. He will be fuelled by defeat in the final of The Masters and is on course to face Luca Brecel in the quarter final so this section could open right up for him. Zhang Anda and John Higgins are the other two top 16 players in this quarter and while Zhang showed with his 147 at the UK Championship that he can score heavily, neither he nor Higgins enjoyed good runs in The Masters.

Jak Jones has made the headlines in recent times for ploughing in the centuries in the Championship League and he is in this quarter while Robert Milkins has had good runs in this tournament in the past. Pang Junxu is another who is no stranger to the latter stages of events while others in with a chance of a big run include Zhou Yuelong, Anthony McGill, Graeme Dott and the veteran Mark Davis who went well to get to this stage.

Betting

They say you either love this venue or you don’t and I think it is fair to assume that Ali Carter is the former. He has won this tournament twice and been to the final of it as well and although he didn’t offer much at The Masters earlier in the month, he didn’t do a whole lot wrong other than run into Mark Selby at the wrong time. Carter would probably like his form to be much better but this is clearly a tournament which has good memories for him and with Ronnie O’Sullivan already out of the competition in his section and Mark Allen way too hit and miss, Carter has a nice portion of the draw to attack. At 33/1 I think he’s a solid bet.

The other player I like in this tournament is Jak Jones. I’ve been waiting for him to show something again since he made the final of the World Championship and although it was only behind closed doors he was excellent in the Championship League last week, scoring tons for fun and while the pressure might be a little different here, he will be in no doubt about how well he is hitting the ball because you don’t make the number of centuries he has in that tournament without striking the white nicely. Jones hasn’t really done anything in this event but if he can pick up where he left off last week this could well be the week that changes at a decent price.

Tips

Back A.Carter to win German Masters (e/w) for a 1/10 stake at 34.00 with Unibet (1/2 1-2)

Back Jak Jones to win German Masters (e/w) for a 1/10 stake at 34.00 with Unibet (1/2 1-2)