2011 Australian Goldfields Open
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 18–24 July 2011 |
| Venue | Bendigo Stadium |
| City | Bendigo |
| Country | Australia |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | $435,000 |
| Highest break |  Mark Williams (142) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Stuart Bingham |
| Runner-up | Mark Williams |
| 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. However, Hamilton withdrew from the tournament in the qualifying rounds sighting personal reasons and therefore did not compete to defend his title.[1]
Stuart Bingham won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Mark Williams 9–8 in the final.[2]
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] | ||
| Stuart Bingham England
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9–8 | Mark Williams (2) Wales
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| 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 | ||
| 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
 Lucky Vatnani |
w/d–w/o |  Kurt Maflin
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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, 111 Liang Wenbo
- 120
Stephen Hendry - 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.
References
- ^ Turner, Chris. "Australian Events". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "Bingham claims maiden ranking title". Eurosport UK. 24 July 2011. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Australian Goldfields Open 2011" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "2011 Australian Goldfields Open Main Draw". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Australian Goldfields Open (2011)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "2011 Australian Goldfields Open results". Global Snooker. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Australian Goldfields Open Qualifiers (2011)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "Results and reports from Australian qualifying". worldsnookercom. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ "Century breaks (Qualifying)". livescores.worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ "Century breaks". worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Century breaks". Global Snooker. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Australian Goldfields Open Century Breaks" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ Hendon, David. "Trouble In Paradise". Snooker Scene Blog. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ^ "O'Sullivan Pulls Out Of Australia Event". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ^ "O'Sullivan pulls out of Australian event". Eurosport UK. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "Dott Withdraws From Australia Event". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.