Home favourite Neil Robertson has been downed by Englishman Judd Trump at the Australian Goldfields Open snooker final.
Trump claimed the $US75,000 ($A81,000) prize in Bendigo on Sunday after wrapping up a 9-5 win to secure his fourth ranking title.
The 24-year-old Englishman kept the Australian at bay having gone into the final session 5-3 ahead from the opening one.
It comes just over two months on from Trump's World Championship quarter-final defeat to Robertson, who was looking to win his home tournament for the first time and keep up the momentum following his victory in the recent Wuxi Classic.
Sunday's first six frames were shared, with Trump making the bigger breaks of 50 and 71 before runs of 55 and 114 gave him the last two of the earlier session.
He began the second session by clearing from blue to black to secure a 6-3 advantage and then frames 10 and - with 101, his eighth century of the tournament - 11 also went his way.
Robertson rallied well, dominating frame 12 and also taking the next with a 109 break to further reduce the deficit.
But the 32-year-old Melbourne-born cueman could not make the most of his chances in the 14th and Trump potted the final blue to clinch victory.
Robertson said he'd had a comfortable path to the final, but Judd played the best snooker on Sunday and was just too good.
"We can both play a lot better than we did today, we kept making 30 or 40 then running out of position," he said.
"He capitalised a lot better than I did, otherwise instead of 8-3 it could have been 6-5 either way. Let's hope next year can be third time lucky for me."
Trump also noted a slip in performance, saying he'd played well throughout the work but Sunday was "quite cagey".
"I was happy to be 5-3 ahead at the end of the first session, then I won an important first frame in the evening session," he said.
"It's great to get off to a good start this season and hopefully I can win more."
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