THE Victorian Plumbing UK CHAMPIONSHIP begins on the weekend with the TV phases as qualifiers are competing within the run as much as the primary occasion.
The star of the qualifiers this time was the World Ladies’s Snooker Champion Bai YuLu, who turned the primary participant to win three matches on the trot, however she fell quick within the fourth qualifying spherical after shedding 6 – 1 to Jack Lisowski.
After her third match win, she mentioned: I don’t need to take into consideration the following match. I’ve completed properly to win three matches. I’ve realized lots.
YuLu claimed her first World Ladies’s Championship earlier this 12 months in China.
She landed a two 12 months tour card due to her victory within the World Ladies’s Snooker Championship this 12 months and she or he has made nice strides since.
The best breaks of the UK Championship qualifiers, got here from none apart from a earlier winner of the occasion, the Chinese language participant Zhao Xintong, who got here again from a ban for betting on matches – however returned to the beginner scene within the QTours, and he racked up two 147s just lately within the prime beginner occasions that are a pathway again to the primary tour qualification.
Bai turned the primary girl this century to win back-to-back matches within the opening two rounds of qualifying for the UK Championship with victories over Jamie Jones and Farakh Ajaib after which Scott Donaldson.
Ronnie O’Sullivan will hope to reignite a disappointing snooker season in his defence of the UK Championship. The Triple Crown match on the York Barbican will probably be proven dwell on Eurosport and discovery. A prime prize of £250,000 will probably be dished out to the winner, topped on Sunday, December 1. Qualification and concludes on November 21, the identical day the draw for the final 32 will probably be held.
The 21-year-old Bai will now have to return to taking part in the 2024 Ladies’s Masters which sees 39 gamers from 11 completely different nations play in Frames Sports activities Bar in Coulsdon.
Final 12 months’s winner noticed Mary Talbot Deegan win her first main girls’s rating occasion however will not be within the draw as she introduced just a few weeks in the past that she was taking a break from aggressive snooker and specializing in different issues – teaching and pool amongst them.
The Ladies’s Masters this season sees the likes of 12-time World Ladies’s Champion Reanne Evans, Seniors Champion Tessa Davidson, three-time World Ladies’s Champion Ng On Yee and a string of different stars and up and coming gamers within the World Ladies’s prime 20.
A few of them have all been interviewed on this web site SnookerZone.
Good luck to everybody taking part in within the Ladies’s Masters which begins on the twenty second November and ends on the twenty fourth November.
Picture screenshot from World Ladies’s Snooker Fb web page…
