Star cast set for semi-finals Saturday at the German Masters in Berlin

One of Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson, Judd Trump or Ali Carter will lift The Brandon Parker Trophy on Sunday night in Berlin and pocket the top prize of £100,000. All four players came through their quarter-final assignments on Friday in the capital.

Murphy eliminated reigning champion and recent Masters title winner Kyren Wilson, 5-1, to reach his fourth ranking event semi-final of the season.

‘The Magician’ registered runs of 71, 101, 68 and 58 in going 4-0 up at the mid-session interval. World number two Wilson avoided the whitewash with a 139 in frame five, but Murphy got the job done in the next with the aid of a 56 to score his sixth successive win over his opponent on tour.

The Englishman has been in stunning form this week, dropping only four frames from as many matches, and making at least a century break in every outing.

In the opening semi-final starting at 13:00GMT, Murphy will meet Robertson in an encounter between two of the most successful players in the sport’s history, although neither have this particular title on their CV. However, they have both appeared in a final here before.

Robertson saw off namesake Jimmy, 5-1, top scoring with a 128 in frame two. After receiving a bye in his opening round due to Chang Bingyu having visa issues, the Australian has relinquished only three frames in three matches and racked up five tons in the process.

The second last four fixture - from 19:00GMT - brings together two of the greatest players from the German Masters records book as three-time champion Trump faces two-time winner Carter.

World number one Trump fashioned breaks of 65, 107, 105, 53 and 69 in defeating Xiao Guodong, 5-3. Xiao contributed with a 104 and 62 during a three-frame sequence that saw him turn a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead.

Trump is through to his sixth semi-final of the term, but is still waiting to end a trophy drought that stretches back to the UK Championship in December 2024.

Carter is into his first ranking event semi-final of the campaign, although he was runner-up at the invitational Shanghai Masters back in August.

Conqueror of Ronnie O’Sullivan in the last 32, ‘The Captain’ has lost just a frame since then. In his latest outing he got the better of fellow Essex cueman Stuart Bingham, 5-1, adding contributions of 72, 137 and 55 on his scorecard. Carter has now won his last six matches in all competitions against Bingham.

Head-to-head records for the semi-finals

Robertson has a strong head-to-head record over Murphy, although the latter has won two of their three most recent ties. Those wins for Murphy came at the 2025 Masters, and the 2025 British Open (their most recent match-up), and he went on to lift the trophy at both tournaments.

They have twice played at the Tempodrom before, Robertson winning on both occasions (2013 quarter-finals, 5-4 | 2020 semi-finals, 6-1).

Carter and Trump have a very even head-to-head thread, and if you exclude Championship League matches, Carter leads, although Trump has defeated him in their two final outings together.

Their last two meetings have been best of 11 affairs with Carter winning both (2024 Masters | 2024 Players Championship).

They have played each other once before at this venue: Trump won 5-0 in the last 32 in 2016.

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