Stuart Bingham won the first ranking tournament of his career after staging a superb comeback to stun Mark Williams in a thrilling final of the Australian Goldfields Open.

Venus Williams was once again forced to go the distance before sealing a 6-2 5-7 6-1 victory over lucky loser Agnes Szavay of Hungary in the quarter-finals of the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL tournament.

Danny Williams’ trainer Jim McDonnell has vowed that his fighter will come back stronger than ever after losing a European heavyweight title fight against Sinan Samil Sam in Berlin.