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2011 Australian Goldfields Open

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Dates
  
18–24 July 2011

City
  
Bendigo

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Bendigo Stadium

Country
  
Australia

Format
  
Ranking event

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.

Contents

The event was last held in 1995 under the name Australian Masters, where Anthony Hamilton defeated Chris Small 8–6 in the final.

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:

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

Round 1–4
  • 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
  • References

    2011 Australian Goldfields Open Wikipedia