2011 Australian Goldfields Open

Australian Goldfields Open

Tournament information
Dates	18–24 July 2011 (2011-07-18 – 2011-07-24)
Venue	Bendigo Stadium
City	Bendigo
Country	Australia
Organisation	World Snooker
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	$425,000
Winner's share	$60,000
Highest break	Template:Flagathlete (142)
Final
Champion	Template:Flagathlete
Runner-up	Template:Flagathlete
Score	9–8
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The 2011 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 and 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 citing personal reasons and therefore did not compete to defend his title.

Stuart Bingham won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Mark Williams 9–8 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[a]

• Winner: $60,000
• Runner-up: $30,000
• Semi-final: $20,000
• Quarter-final: $15,000
• Last 16: $10,000
• Last 32: $7,500
• Last 48: $2,000

• Stage one highest break: $500
• Stage two highest break: $2,500
• Total: $425,000

Main draw

	Last 32 Best of 9 frames					Last 16 Best of 9 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames					Semi-finals Best of 11 frames					Final Best of 17 frames
	1	Template:Flagicon John Higgins	4
		Template:Flagicon Matthew Selt[b1]	5
							Template:Flagicon Matthew Selt	5
						16	Template:Flagicon Stephen Hendry	1
	16	Template:Flagicon Stephen Hendry	5
		Template:Flagicon Martin Gould	3
												Template:Flagicon Matthew Selt	3
											7	Template:Flagicon Shaun Murphy	5
	13	Template:Flagicon Peter Ebdon	3
		Template:Flagicon Rory McLeod	5
							Template:Flagicon Rory McLeod	1
						7	Template:Flagicon Shaun Murphy	5
	7	Template:Flagicon Shaun Murphy	5
		Template:Flagicon Andrew Higginson	3
																7	Template:Flagicon Shaun Murphy	2
																	Template:Flagicon Stuart Bingham	6
	6	Template:Flagicon Ali Carter	3
		Template:Flagicon Marcus Campbell	5
							Template:Flagicon Marcus Campbell	1
						12	Template:Flagicon Mark Allen	5
	12	Template:Flagicon Mark Allen	5
		Template:Flagicon Ryan Day	3
											12	Template:Flagicon Mark Allen	3
												Template:Flagicon Stuart Bingham	5
	15	Template:Flagicon Jamie Cope	3
		Template:Flagicon Tom Ford	5
						Template:Flagicon Tom Ford		0
						Template:Flagicon Stuart Bingham		5
	4	Template:Flagicon Ding Junhui	2
		Template:Flagicon Stuart Bingham	5
																						Template:Flagicon Stuart Bingham	9
																					2	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	8
	3	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	5
		Template:Flagicon Joe Perry	3
						3	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	5
							Template:Flagicon Mark Davis	3
	9	Template:Flagicon Judd Trump	3
		Template:Flagicon Mark Davis	5
											3	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	3
												Template:Flagicon Ken Doherty	5
	14	Template:Flagicon Matthew Stevens	4
		Template:Flagicon Liang Wenbo	5
							Template:Flagicon Liang Wenbo	4
							Template:Flagicon Ken Doherty	5
	8	Template:Flagicon Stephen Maguire	2
		Template:Flagicon Ken Doherty	5
																	Template:Flagicon Ken Doherty	2
																2	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	6
	5	Template:Flagicon Neil Robertson	5
		Template:Flagicon Nigel Bond	2
						5	Template:Flagicon Neil Robertson	4
							Template:Flagicon Dominic Dale	5
		Template:Flagicon Dominic Dale	5
		Template:Flagicon Steve Mifsud[b2]	2
												Template:Flagicon Dominic Dale	4
											2	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	5
		Template:Flagicon David Gilbert[c]	5
		Template:Flagicon James Mifsud	1
							Template:Flagicon David Gilbert	2
						2	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	5
	2	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	5
		Template:Flagicon Barry Pinches	2

Final

Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Michaela Tabb Bendigo Stadium, Bendigo, Australia
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
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. 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

Template:Flagicon Lucky Vatnani

w/d–w/o

Template:Flagicon Kurt Maflin

Round 1–4

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

• 141, 101 – Ian McCulloch
• 137, 111 – Barry Hawkins
• 137 – Liu Chuang
• 136, 111, 100 – Robin Hull
• 136 – Mark Davis
• 134 – Dominic Dale
• 126 – Mark Joyce
• 125 – Barry Pinches
• 123 – Ben Woollaston
• 122, 113 – David Gilbert
• 122 – Adrian Gunnell
• 118 – Aditya Mehta

• 117 – Jack Lisowski
• 115 – Liam Highfield
• 115 – Michael Holt
• 114, 100 – Matthew Selt
• 114 – Passakorn Suwannawat
• 114 – Stuart Bingham
• 113, 110, 107, 104 – Tian Pengfei
• 112 – Kurt Maflin
• 110 – Ben Woollaston
• 104 – Jamie Burnett
• 103 – Michael White
• 100 – Liang Wenbo

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.
• ^{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.
• ^c Originally David Gilbert was set to play James Mifsud in the wildcard round, but after the withdrawal of Graeme Dott, their match was moved in the last 32 stage of the draw.