2011 Australian Goldfields Open
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Dates | 18–24 July 2011 |
Venue | Bendigo Stadium |
City | Bendigo |
Country | Australia |
Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
Format | Ranking event |
Total prize fund | $435,000 |
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Score | 9–8 |
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The 2011 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18–24 July 2011 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia.
The event was last held in 1995 under the name Australian Masters, where Anthony Hamilton defeated Chris Small 8–6 in the final.[1]
Stuart Bingham won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Mark Williams 9–8 in the final.[2]
Contents
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[3][a]
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Main draw
Final
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Michaela Tabb Bendigo Stadium, Bendigo, Australia[5] |
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Stuart Bingham![]() |
9–8 | Mark Williams (2)![]() |
Afternoon: 139–0 (139), 0–89 (89), 71–39, 55–42, 9–98 (85), 40–66 (57), 19–84 (84), 64–52 (Williams 52) Evening: 7–69 (52), 13–78, 4–71 (71), 51–10, 10–81 (68), 67–32, 70–8 (69), 76–0 (76), 80–34 |
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139 | Highest break | 89 |
1 | Century breaks | 0 |
3 | 50+ breaks | 8 |
Qualifying
These matches took place between 26 and 30 June 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.[3][7][8] David Gilbert was the only player to go through all four rounds of qualifying to make it to the main stage.
- Preliminary round
Best of 9 frames
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- Round 1–4
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
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Televised stage centuries
- 142, 140, 118, 110, 106 Mark Williams
- 139, 118, 114, 112, 107 Stuart Bingham
- 137 Matthew Selt
- 134 Ali Carter
- 124, 104 Ding Junhui
- 123 Dominic Dale
- 120 Stephen Hendry
- 120, 111 Liang Wenbo
- 111, 101 Neil Robertson
- 102 Jamie Cope
- 101, 100 Mark Allen
- 100 Rory McLeod
Notes
- a All prize money were subject to 46% local tax.[13]
- b1 b2 Originally Matthew Selt was set to play Steve Mifsud in the wildcard round, but after the withdrawal of Ronnie O'Sullivan for medical reasons Selt advanced to the last 32 to play John Higgins and Mifsud played against Dominic Dale.[14][15]
- c Originally David Gilbert was set to play James Mifsud in the wildcard round, but after the withdrawal of Graeme Dott,[16] their match was moved in the last 32 stage of the draw.
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