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:
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
Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Michaela TabbBendigo Stadium, Bendigo, Australia Stuart Bingham 9–8 Mark Williams (2) Afternoon: 139–0 (139), , , , , , , Evening: 7–69 (52), 13–78, , , , , , , 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 Lucky Vatnani w/d–w/o 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
All prize money were subject to 46% local tax. 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. 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.
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