Round 1 - Wild Cards
Match 1 - Matthew Seit vs Steve Mifsud (Aust)
Match 2 - David Gilbert vs James Mifsud (Aust)

Round 2
John Higgins vs Winner of Match 1
Stephen Hendry vs Martin Gould
Peter Ebdon vs Rory McLeod
Shaun Murphy vs Andrew Higginson
Ali Carter vs Marcus Campbell
Mark Allen vs Ryan Day
Jamie Cope vs Tom Ford
Ding Junhui vs Stuart Bingham
Mark Selby vs Joe Perry
Judd Trump vs Mark Davis
Matthew Stevens vs Liang Wenbo
Stephen Maguire vs Ken Doherty
Neil Robertson (Aust) vs Nigel Bond
Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Dominic Dale
Graeme Dott vs Winner of Match 2
Mark Williams vs Barry Pinches

The Victorian Government, IMG Worldwide, the global sports, fashion and media company and World Snooker announce that Victoria has secured the right to host the first ever world ranking snooker event to be staged in Australia.
The new tournament on the prestigious World Snooker Tour is named the Australian Goldfields Open and this inaugural event will be played in Bendigo from 18 – 24 July, 2011.
The agreement will see a world ranking event staged in Australia for each of the next three years at Bendigo Stadium. - Dates and Times for Matches -

Date

Session Time

Match Number

One Two

Monday 18 July

10.00 am*

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Wild Card 1

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Wild Card 2

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Round 1

Tuesday 19 July

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Last 32

Round 1

Wednesday 20 July

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Last 32

Last 32

Last 16

Last 32

Last 32

Last 16

Round 1

Round 2

Thursday 21 July

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Last 16

Last 16

Last 16

Last 16

Last 16

Last 16

Round 2

Friday 22 July

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Quarter Final

Quarter Final

Quarter Final

Quarter Final

Saturday 23 July

1.00 pm

7.30 pm

Semi Final

Semi Final

Sunday 24 July

2.00 pm

7.30 pm

Final

Final

* The Australian wildcards 1 and 2 will play the 31st and 32nd ranked players at 10am with the winner of each game advancing to round one. There will be slight break after the Wild Card games prior to the 1.00pm session starting.

From Monday 18th to Friday 22nd (inclusive) matches one and two in each session will be played on 2 tables with all seats able to view both tables.

The Semi Final and Final matches will take place on 1 table.

Order of play and table numbers for all matches up to and including the Quarter

Finals will be determined the day before and published by the Tournament Director.

All matches up to and including Quarter Finals – best of 9 frames, Semi Finals –

best of 11 frames, Final – best of 17 frames (8 frames 2pm session and 9 frame

Tickets to the event can now be purchased at

https://www.schweppescentre.com.au/tickets.shtml