Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 4

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.

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.

Prize fund and ranking points
The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:
 * 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Round 1
Best of 7 frames

Round 2
Best of 7 frames

Round 3
Best of 7 frames

Century breaks
Only from last 128 onwards.


 * 147, 107, 103, 102 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 142, 124 – John Higgins
 * 139, 103 – Ding Junhui
 * 135 – Mark Davis
 * 135 – Liu Song
 * 134, 117, 102 – Neil Robertson
 * 131, 106 – Steve Davis
 * 129, 105, 102 – Jimmy Robertson
 * 129 – Jamie Cope
 * 126, 119 – Mark Selby
 * 121 – Adam Duffy
 * 120 – Jimmy White
 * 112, 108, 100 – Yu Delu


 * 111 – Andrew Higginson
 * 110 – Zhang Anda
 * 109 – David Gilbert
 * 108 – Robbie Williams
 * 105 – Marcus Campbell
 * 104 – Shaun Murphy
 * 104 – Matthew Stevens
 * 103 – Sam Craigie
 * 103 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 102 – Alfie Burden
 * 102 – Mike Dunn
 * 102 – Mark King
 * 101 – Sam Baird