CHINA’S BAI YULU has scooped her first UK Championship to strike a double additionally claiming the World Ladies’s Snooker Championship earlier this yr – on the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds.
The 21-year-old feminine snooker sensation got here face to face with the 12-times World Champion Reanne Evans, who was showing in her sixteenth UK Last. However it was YuLu, who acquired the higher of Evans. defeated Thai star Mink Nutcharut within the World Ladies’s remaining in April this yr. She turned the primary Chinese language lady to raise the Mandy Fisher Trophy in China.
YuLu burst onto the scene a few years in the past and has shortly risen by way of the ranks of the World Ladies’s Tour and her spectacular World maiden win earlier this yr led to her securing a two-year- principal tour card.
The victory can even see Bai rise to a brand new career-high world rating of fourth place, behind solely Mink Nutcharut, Ng and Evans.
She made a formidable 99 break in her semi-finals to guide the excessive breaks. On path to the ultimate, she defeated Thai star Mink Nutcharut.
The ultimate was a repeat of the Taom UK Ladies’s Snooker Championship which noticed Evans conquer the title in a reverse 4 – 1 victory, however YuLu has cemented her place as one among snooker’s Asian feminine stars.
Hong Kong feminine star Ng On Yee, a three-time World Championship winner did not go higher than the quarter-finals this time round regardless of final season’s semi-finals within the occasion.
There was but extra silverware for 55-year-old Tessa Davidson as she scooped one more Seniors title defeating Sarah Dunn within the remaining 2 – 0. There’s a number of articles on the British Newspaper Archive referring to Davidson and her early profession.
The Seniors side-tournament noticed her raise her twelfth over-40s crown following victory in opposition to Sarah Dunn in a repeat of the 2022 remaining in Leeds.
Davidson misplaced the title final season to Mary Talbot Deegan.
Jasmine Bolsover, whom was interviewed previous to her return to snooker in 2021, has been knocking on the door to profitable World Ladies’s occasions since returning to as an grownup after a protracted spell on the Tour, to snooker round three years in the past, lastly claimed a Maiden trophy with The Problem Cup, defeating Amee Kamani 2 – 1.
She had gained Cuestars and an Beneath 21 as a young person previous to her return after college.
The 24-year-old has had a profitable run on the Snooker Legends 900 and within the World Ladies’s Snooker occasions.
She got here runner-up within the Winchester Ladies’s Collection final season in Occasion 7 when she misplaced out to Tessa Davidson.
Gifted teenager Ellise Scott, who narrowly missed out on a Junior Snooker Legends 900 spot some time in the past claimed the Beneath-21 title for the primary time. Final yr’s Beneath-21 winner was India’s Natasha Chethan
We’ve interviewed a few of these gamers already on SnookerZone.
Congratulations to all those that competed within the occasions.
The subsequent World Ladies’s occasion might be in October in Australia.
Developing this month, is the return of The Dice UK Incapacity Snooker Championship, which has a wholesome turnout of greater than 80 entries.
Though snooker isn’t within the Paralympics, the WDBS has its personal Olympic type occasions run since 2015 – which we have now reported on many up to now.
Good luck to everybody concerned in that one.
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