JUDD TRUMP reckons one tournament on the snooker calendar doesn’t get the love it deserves.
World number one Trump has rated the German Masters as one of the top three events of the season and wants more to be made of the tournament he has won three times.
Judd Trump has called for more to be made of the German Masters[/caption]
Trump, 35, reckons the crowd at the Berlin Tempodrom is up there with the Crucible and Alexandra Palace.
He told Metro: “Berlin is probably third place in terms of the crowd interaction and how good the crowds are, especially when you get to that final weekend and how passionate they are.
“The crowds in Berlin and the noise when you come into the final is very close to, or on a par with, the Masters.
“I think those two are out there on their own in terms of how good you feel when you play on the final weekend.”
However Trump, who won the German Masters in 2020, 2021 and 2024, reckons that more could be made of the tournament.
Claiming that the total prize pot of £550,000, of which £100,000 goes to the winner, doesn’t reflect the prominence that the event deserves in the calendar.
He added: “I’d like to have seen it grow somehow, I think the tournament deserves to be bigger than it is.
“I don’t think it should be on a par [in terms of prize money] with some of the other events like the Home Nations, although Northern Ireland is the exception.
German Masters prize money
- Champion: £100,000
- Runner-up: £45,000
- Semi-Finals: £21,000
- Quarter-Finals: £13,200
- Round of 16: £9,000
- Round of 32: £5,400
- Round of 64: £3,600
- Round of 96: £1,000
- Highest Break: £5,000
- Total: £550,400
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“I think Germany should be up there, just behind the UK [Championship], but it’s not really gone anywhere, it’s stagnated a little bit.
“There should be a few changes to make a bit bigger than it is because the crowd over there deserve it.
“It’s a little bit disappointing because I feel like they could even hold the Tour Championship or something over there.
“The crowd deserve something bigger. Its excellent to have a tournament there, but the fans deserve a bigger, more prestigious event.”
The German Masters gets underway today and runs until February 2, with Trump beginning his efforts in a clash against David Grace.
Full German Masters schedule
Monday, January 27
John Higgins vs Mark Davis
Robert Milkins vs Xu Si
Neil Robertson vs Antoni Kowalski
Chris Wakelin vs Hammad Miah
Kyren Wilson vs Cheung Ka Wai
Zhang Anda vs Graeme Dott
Zhou Yuelong vs Artemijs Zizins
Stuart Bingham vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
David Gilbert vs Ben Woollaston
Barry Hawkins vs Alfie Burden
Jak Jones vs Allan Taylor
Stephen Maguire vs Joe O’Connor
Shaun Murphy vs Liam Graham
Judd Trump vs David Grace
Tuesday, January 28
Ross Muir w/o Ding Junhui
Pang Junxu vs Anthony McGill
Mark Selby vs Liu Hongyu
Si Jiahui vs Ken Doherty
Elliot Slessor vs Liu Haotian
Hossein Vafaei vs Yuan Sijun
Mark Allen vs David Lilley
Luca Brecel vs Jiang Jun
Ali Carter w/o He Guoqiang
Jack Lisowski vs Alexander Ursenbacher
Wu Yize vs Jackson Page
Xiao Guodong vs Fan Zhengyi
Ryan Day vs Ricky Walden
Tom Ford w/o Dominic Dale
Dylan Emery w/o Ronnie O’Sullivan
Noppon Saengkham vs Jimmy Robertson
Mark Williams vs Aaron Hill
Gary Wilson vs Daniel Wells
