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Bendigo Stadium - 9-15 July
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Matthew Selt pulled off the biggest result of the second day of the tournament by beating defending champion and fellow Essex professional Stuart Bingham 5-4 to set up a second round match against Ryan Day.
Romford's Selt reached his first ranking event quarter-final last year in this event beating John Higgins and Stephen Hendry on route but since then he failed to reach the same stage of any of events.
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Stuart Bingham
Bingham has won two smaller events already this season and was the man in-form coming in to this tournament but either player failed to get going throughout which was summed up by a high break of only 74 by Bingham.
From leading 2-0 early on Selt had his back against the wall as Bingham took a 4-3 lead after a series of scrappy frames. Selt forced the decider and two small contributitions helped him send Bingham home with a 5-4 win.
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Stats from the Bingham v Selt match
The other big result from day 2 was from the man from China who reached the last 16 of the Crucible on his debut a few months back, Cao Yupeng. He performed superbly in patches to defeat the two-times world finalist Ali Carter 5-3.
Cao raced to a 4-0 lead before being pipped back by Essex's Carter to 4-3. In the 8th frame Carter had a chance to bring the match to a decider but missing a black off the spot letting Cao back in to finish the match 5-3 to continue his brilliant start as life as a professional snooker player.
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Cao Yupeng
2005 world champion Shaun Murphy faced a scare earlier as he saw his 4-1 lead pipped back to 4-4 by Marcus Campbell before coming through the decider to set up a second round match with Tom Ford. The player who recently beat Murphy to win the 6-Reds world title Mark Davis also recorded a good win, 5-2 over Jack Lisowski.
Marco Fu got his Australian Open campaign off to a good start with a 5-1 win over higher ranked Joe Perry and last season's China Open champion Peter Ebdon saw off a fightback from 4-2 up by Michael Holt to come through the decider to win 5-4.
Australian Goldfields Open - Day Two Results
1pm 11) Shaun Murphy 5-4 Marcus Campbell 17) Joe Perry 1-5 Marco Fu
Followed by 8) Allister Carter 3-5 Cao Yupeng 9) Mark Davis 5-2 Jack Lisowski
7.30pm 3) Stuart Bingham 4-5 Matthew Selt 13) Peter Ebdon 5-4 Michael Holt
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