Congratulations to John Higgins who has defeated Martin Gould in a thrilling final 9-8 to win the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open, his 27th career ranking event title.
The Scot takes home the £37.500 top prize and moves up one place in the rankings to 12th, but it will be the prize that means the most to Higgins, who has now won two big ranking events so far this calendar year.
John Higgins will face Martin Gould in the final of the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open, after the pair came through their semi-finals against Jamie Jones and Stephen Maguire earlier today.
Quarter-finals day at the Australian Goldfields Open proved to be a good day for Scotland, as John Higgins and Stephen Maguire progressed to the last four in Bendigo.
Continue reading for more on that and the day’s remaining quarter-final matches…
We are down to just eight now at the Australian Goldfields Open following the conclusion of the second round today in Bendigo.
Continue reading for my day four summary of today’s action…
Day three in Bendigo saw both the conclusion of the last 32 of the ongoing Australian Goldfields Open, as well as the start of the last 16 as Judd Trump and Stephen Maguire became the first two players to make it through to the quarter-finals.
Continue reading for my day three summary of the action in Bendigo…
Matt Selt has always enjoyed playing in the Australian Goldfields Open with two previous quarter-final runs to his name and today he claimed another significant scalp, winning a thrilling match 5-4 against home hero Neil Robertson to reach the last 16 in 2015.
Continue reading for more on that and the five other first round matches completed on day two in Bendigo…
One day down in Bendigo and already we have seen a couple of surprising results with world champion Stuart Bingham unable to finish off Fergal O’Brien, while Ben Woollaston became the first player to fall victim to a wildcard this season, losing out to Adrian Ridley.
Following last week’s World Cup, professional snooker now moves on to Bendigo for the venue stages of the first ranking event of the season, the Australian Goldfields Open.
While there are a few names missing from the draw, there remains a strong field with Judd Trump looking to defend the title that he won 12 months ago…