Betfred World Snooker Championship - Day Sixteen
Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy have not had great season’s since reaching last year’s World Championship final (Picture: Getty Images)

As with many tournaments on the snooker calendar, the German Masters is not just about the glory on offer at the event itself, but the added benefit of qualifying for another competition.

All 32 players heading to the Tempodrom in Berlin will be focused on lifting the trophy in front of the famously passionate German crowd, but for some there is the matter of the Players Championship at hand as well.

The Players Championship features just the top 16 on the one-year ranking list, and with a top prize of £125,000, it is a tournament that everyone wants to be in. First round losers even take home £10,000, so it really is a big plus to qualify.

The German Masters is the last chance saloon for anyone wanting to continue the party at the Players, so there is added pressure for some at the Tempodrom.

At the top of the one-year list is UK champion Zhao Xintong, followed by the likes of Luca Brecel, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Williams, who are all comfortably into the Players already.

However, those at the lower end of the top 16 are not sitting so comfortably. The top 11 on the one-year list are safe, but the bottom five – Judd Trump, Jimmy Robertson, Yan Bingtao, Ricky Walden and Barry Hawkins – are not. Hawkins in 16th spot is sitting especially uncomfortably as he has not qualified for the main stage of the German Masters.

Just behind him on the one-year list are Anthony McGill and Mark Selby, who need to win two matches to get to the quarter-finals and give themselves a chance of reaching the Players Championship.

Further down the one-year list it gets more and more difficult for someone to spring into the top 16 in Berlin. Shaun Murphy is going to have to win the event to make it to the Players, while Kurt Maflin, who has remarkably won no prize money this season so far, will obviously have to lift the trophy.

£80,000 is on offer for the winner in Berlin, with the runner-up taking home £35,000 and the semi-finalists £20,000.

Quarter-finalists get £10,000 but the drop to £5,000 for the last 16 means that players outside the top 16 on the one-year list must reach at least the last eight to have chance of being at the Players next month.

One-year ranking list

  1. Zhao Xintong 211,000
  2. Luca Brecel 178,000
  3. Ronnie O’Sullivan 175,000 – already out of German Masters
  4. Mark Williams 141,000
  5. Mark Allen 119,500
  6. Neil Robertson 114,000
  7. John Higgins 114,000- already out of German Masters
  8. David Gilbert 91,500
  9. Hossein Vafaei 88,500
  10. Kyren Wilson 71,000
  11. Gary Wilson 69,000- already out of German Masters
  12. Jimmy Robertson 58,500
  13. Yan Bingtao 58,000
  14. Judd Trump 58,000
  15. Ricky Walden 58,000
  16. Barry Hawkins 56,500- already out of German Masters

German Masters qualifiers outside the one-year list top 16

Anthony McGill 53,500
Mark Selby 53,000
Stephen Maguire 49,000
Tom Ford 41,000
Noppon Saengkham 36,000
Liam Highfield 24,000
Zhou Yuelong 24,000
Shaun Murphy 23,500
Sam Craigie 21,000
Wenbo Liang 18,000
Ryan Day 16,000
Michael Georgiou 13,000
Ken Doherty 11,000
Fan Zhengyi 10,000
Craig Steadman 8,500
Lyu Haotian 7,500
Andrew Higginson 6,000
Zhang Anda 4,500
Barry Pinches 4,500
Kurt Maflin 0

German Masters prize money

Winner: £80,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £5,000
Last 32: £4,000
Last 64: £3,000

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