| Tournament Name: | Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 Event 4 |
| Venue: | Stadthalle |
| Location: | Fürth |
| Country: | Germany |
| Organisation: | World Snooker |
| Format: | Minor-ranking event |
| Total Prize Fund: | €52,260 |
| Winners Share: | €10,000 |
| Highest Break: | (147) |
| Score: | 4–0 |
| Previous: | PTC3 |
| Next: | PTC5 |
The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 4 (also known as the 2011 Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 and 28 August 2011 in Fürth, Germany. Some of the preliminary round matches were held in Nürnberg. It was the first PTC event outside of the Grand Finals to be broadcast on television, as one table was screened on Eurosport.
Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 78th official maximum break during his last 32 match against Adam Duffy. This was O'Sullivan's 11th record 147 break.[1]
Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost 3–4 in the last 32 against Andrew Higginson.
Mark Selby won in the final 4–0 against Mark Davis.[2]
The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:[3] [4]
| width=110px | ! | width=110px align="right" | Prize fund ! | width=110px align="right" | Ranking points1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | €10,000 | 2,000 | |||
| Runner-up | €5,000 | 1,600 | |||
| Semi-finalist | €2,500 | 1,280 | |||
| Quarter-finalist | €1,500 | 1,000 | |||
| Last 16 | €1,000 | 760 | |||
| Last 32 | €600 | 560 | |||
| Last 64 | €200 | 360 | |||
| Maximum break | €2,260 | – | |||
| Total | €52,260 | – |
Best of 7 frames
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Gerst | 4–3 | Roland Hanisch | |||
| Sanderson Lam | 4–2 | Shane Castle | |||
| Liam Monk | 4–0 | Ralf Günzel | |||
| Michael Wasley | 4–0 | Paul Schopf | |||
| Zafir Dilji | 0–4 | Chen Zhe | |||
| Christian Pesch | 0–4 | Norbert Hofheinz | |||
| Gerrit bij de Leij | 4–2 | Soner Sari | |||
| Naresh Samarawickrama | 0–4 | Steve Judd | |||
| Ricky Norris | 2–4 | Lee Page | |||
| Ron Florax | 1–4 | Andreas Ploner | |||
| Ole Steiner | 0–4 | Christopher Henry | |||
| Kishan Hirani | 4–1 | Chris McBreen | |||
| Chris Norbury | 4–0 | Baghi Ebrahim | |||
| Jörg Schneidewindt | Rüdiger Fehrmann | ||||
| Tomasz Skalski | 3–4 | Phil Barnes | |||
| w/d–w/o | Lasse Münstermann | ||||
| Klaus Wuscher | 1–4 | Hans Blanckaert | |||
| w/o–w/d | Charlie Walters | ||||
| Ronni Beniesch | 2–4 | Julian Treiber | |||
| Stefan Joachim | w/o–w/d | Andrew Milliard | |||
| Özyurt Aksoy | 1–4 | Allan Taylor | |||
| Felix Pleschek | 0–4 | Ben Harrison | |||
| Michael Betzinger | w/o–w/d | Robert Valiant | |||
| Mitchell Travis | 4–0 | Mario Wehrmann | |||
| Gareth Allen | 4–1 | Julian Gärtner | |||
| 2–4 | Joe Delaney | ||||
| Sean O'Sullivan | 4–1 | Oliver Brown | |||
| Markus Pfistermüller | 1–4 | Markus Stocker | |||
| 4–2 | Sanjin Kusan | ||||
| Sam Harvey | 4–0 | Jan Leichs | |||
| 0–4 | Andreas Pesch | ||||
| Phil O’Kane | 4–0 | Stefan Merkel |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Cox | 4–0 | Harald Kloss | |||
| Anja Vucicevic | 3–4 | Oliver Kremp | |||
| Craig Steadman | 4–0 | Rita Jakisch | |||
| Jak Jones | Hans-Jürgen Bins | ||||
| Maurice Le Duc | 4–0 | Anne-Kathrin Hirsch | |||
| Ashley Wright | 4–0 | Douglas Hogan | |||
| Christof Biniarsch | w/o–w/d | Steve Ventham | |||
| Patrick Rossmann | w/o–w/d | Ryan Causton | |||
| w/d–w/o | Ian Burns | ||||
| w/d–w/o | Robert Sax | ||||
| Brent Kolbeck | w/d–w/o | Declan Bristow | |||
| Rogier van der Kamp | 0–4 | Jamie Walker | |||
| Marc Davis | 4–0 | Thomas Valentin | |||
| Stephen Craigie | 4–0 | Rüdiger Nickel | |||
| Gary Wilson | 4–1 | Thomas Wacker | |||
| Lee Farebrother | w/d–w/o | Jörg Petersen | |||
| 0–4 | Jamie O'Neill | ||||
| Martin Rösler | 0–4 | Ian Glover | |||
| Christian Ozim | 4–0 | Ralph Enax | |||
| James Welsh | 4–1 | Zen Beechey | |||
| Angelo Losi | 1–4 | Xander van Rossum | |||
| Frank Schröder | 1–4 | Martin O'Donnell | |||
| Nick Jennings | 4–0 | Bernd Friedrich | |||
| Nick Pearce | w/d–w/o | Stevo Vucicevic | |||
| Stéphane Ochoïski | 1–4 | Robbie Williams | |||
| Patrick Einsle | 4–0 | Mirko Groß | |||
| Robert Drahn | 0–4 | Michael Wild | |||
| Michael Peyr | 0–4 | Zhang Anda | |||
| Nicole Breitenstein | 0–4 | Jörg Vortkort | |||
| Lothar Kempgens | 0–4 | Ali Kirim | |||
| 2–4 | Kyren Wilson | ||||
| Saqib Nasir | w/d–w/o | Sydney Wilson |
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Gerst | 1–4 | Sanderson Lam | |||
| Liam Monk | 4–1 | Michael Wasley | |||
| Chen Zhe | 4–0 | Norbert Hofheinz | |||
| 0–4 | Steve Judd | ||||
| Lee Page | 4–1 | Andreas Ploner | |||
| Christopher Henry | 0–4 | Kishan Hirani | |||
| Chris Norbury | 4–0 | Rüdiger Fehrmann | |||
| Phil Barnes | 4–3 | Lasse Münstermann | |||
| Hans Blanckaert | 4–1 | ||||
| Julian Treiber | 0–4 | Stefan Joachim | |||
| 2–4 | Ben Harrison | ||||
| Michael Betzinger | 0–4 | Mitchell Travis | |||
| 2–4 | Joe Delaney | ||||
| Sean O'Sullivan | 4–0 | Markus Stocker | |||
| 0–4 | Sam Harvey | ||||
| Andreas Pesch | 0–4 | Phil O’Kane |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Cox | 4–0 | Oliver Kremp | |||
| Craig Steadman | 4–3 | Jak Jones | |||
| Maurice Le Duc | 1–4 | Ashley Wright | |||
| Christof Biniarsch | 4–1 | Patrick Rossmann[8] | |||
| Ian Burns | 4–0 | Robert Sax | |||
| Declan Bristow | 1–4 | Jamie Walker | |||
| Marc Davis | 1–4 | Stephen Craigie | |||
| Gary Wilson | 4–0 | Jörg Petersen | |||
| Jamie O'Neill | 4–2 | Ian Glover | |||
| Christian Ozim | 1–4 | James Welsh | |||
| Xander van Rossum | 0–4 | Martin O'Donnell | |||
| Nick Jennings | 4–0 | Stevo Vucicevic | |||
| Robbie Williams | 4–0 | Patrick Einsle | |||
| 0–4 | Zhang Anda | ||||
| Jörg Vortkort | 3–4 | Ali Kirim | |||
| Kyren Wilson | Sydney Wilson |
Only from last 128 onwards.[11]