2022 World Women's Snooker Championship

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2022 World Women's Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates11–14 February 2022 (2022-02-11 – 2022-02-14)
VenueDing Junhui Snooker Academy
City Sheffield
CountryEngland
Organisation World Women's Snooker
Format Round Robin for qualifying groups, Single elimination
Total prize fund£17,200
Winner's share£6,000
Highest breakFlag of Hong Kong.svg  Ng On Yee  (HKG) (97)
Final
ChampionFlag of Thailand.svg  Nutcharut Wongharuthai  (THA)
Runner-upFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Wendy Jans  (BEL)
Score6–5
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The 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England from 11 to 14 February 2022. [1] It was the first staging of the World Women's Snooker Championship since 2019, following an 18-month suspension of the World Women's Snooker Tour between March 2020 and August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] In addition to receiving the newly renamed Mandy Fisher Trophy, the winner of the tournament earned a place on the professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2022–23 snooker season. [3]

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Reanne Evans was the defending champion, having defeated Nutcharut Wongharuthai 6–3 in the 2019 final to win her 12th women's world title. [4] However, Evans lost 1–4 to Wendy Jans in the quarter-finals, the first time in her career that she had not reached the semi-finals of the tournament. [5] Three-time champion Ng On-yee came from 0–3 behind in her quarter-final against Wongharuthai to force a deciding frame, but Wongharuthai won the match 4–3 on the final black. [5] [6] The quarter-final losses by Evans and Ng meant that no former champion reached the semi-finals. [7]

Wongharuthai won the tournament, defeating Wendy Jans 6–5 in the final. She became the first Thai player to win the women's world title, the 13th different winner of the tournament since its inception in 1976, the first new champion since 2015, and the only player besides Evans or Ng to win the title in 19 years. [8] She gained a two-year professional tour card, allowing her to join the World Snooker Tour from the beginning of the following season. [9] Upon her return to Thailand, she was granted an audience with the country's prime minister Prayut Chan o-cha, and its Minister for Tourism and Sports Pipat Ratchakitprakarn. [10]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below: [11]

Final summary

Nutcharut Wongharuthai won her first women's world title Nutcharut Wongharuthai at the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out.jpg
Nutcharut Wongharuthai won her first women's world title

The final, contested as the best of 11 frames between Thai player Nutcharut Wongharuthai and Belgian player Wendy Jans, lasted five hours and 40 minutes. [12] Although Wongharuthai took an initial 2–1 lead, Jans then won four of the next five frames to lead 5–3, also contributing the final's highest break of 84 in the fourth frame. [9] Wongharuthai later stated: "When I was 5–3 behind I thought that I had lost, and I really just started to play for fun because I was too tense. Luckily, it worked." [13] Wongharuthai won the next two frames to level the scores at 5–5. Requiring a snooker in the decider with only the colours remaining, Jans potted the yellow and green before obtaining four foul points when Wongharuthai failed to escape from a snooker on the brown. [14] Jans then potted the brown, blue, and pink, but missed a long black into the yellow pocket, leaving it over the middle. [12] Wongharuthai potted the black to clinch the title. [15]

Results

Main draw

Round 1
Best of 7 frames		Round 2
Best of 7 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 7 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 9 frames		Final
Best of 11 frames
Flag of England.svg Reanne Evans (1)4
Flag of Japan.svg Miina Tani4 Flag of Japan.svg Miina Tani0
Flag of England.svg Reanne Evans (1)1
Flag of England.svg Jan Hughes (23)0
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wendy Jans (12)4
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Laura Evans (7)1
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Laura Evans (7)4 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wendy Jans (12)4
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wendy Jans (12)5
Flag of India.svg Pooja Galundia2
Flag of England.svg Jamie Hunter (22)2
Flag of Thailand.svg Ploychompoo Laokiatphong (10)3
Flag of Russia.svg Mariia Shevchenko2 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Anja Vandenbussche4
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Anja Vandenbussche0
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Anja Vandenbussche4
Flag of England.svg Jamie Hunter (22)4
Flag of England.svg Jamie Hunter (22)4
Flag of England.svg Jamie Hunter (22)4 Flag of England.svg Suzie Terry (8)1
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Wendy Jans (12)5
Flag of England.svg Harriet Haynes (19)0
Flag of Thailand.svg Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)6
Flag of England.svg Rebecca Kenna (4)4
Flag of England.svg Stephanie Daughtery (9)3 Flag of England.svg Tessa Davidson 3
Flag of England.svg Rebecca Kenna (4)4
Flag of England.svg Tessa Davidson 4
Flag of England.svg Emma Parker (6)2
Flag of England.svg Emma Parker (6)4
Flag of England.svg Emma Parker (6)4 Flag of Poland.svg Dalia Alska0
Flag of England.svg Rebecca Kenna (4)1
Flag of England.svg Jasmine Bolsover1
Flag of Thailand.svg Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)5
Flag of England.svg Maria Catalano (5)2
Flag of England.svg Lesley Roberts0 Flag of Thailand.svg Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)4
Flag of Thailand.svg Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)4
Flag of Thailand.svg Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)4
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Ng On Yee (2)3
Flag of England.svg Mary Talbot-Deegan (24)2
Flag of England.svg Zoe Killington (17)0 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Ng On Yee (2)4
Flag of England.svg Mary Talbot-Deegan (24)4

Players listed in bold indicate match winners.

Final

Final: Best of 11 frames
Ding Junhui Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England. 14 February 2022
Wendy Jans (12)
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 		5–6 Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)
Flag of Thailand.svg
Frame1234567891011
Wendy Jans
30+ Breaks		40
-		72
(31)		46
-		84
(84)		69
-		71
-		39
-		74
(30, 39)		18
–		13
-		53
-
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
30+ Breaks		51
-		38
-		60
-		4
-		44
-		32
-		67
-		15
-		69
-		81
(32)		65
(30)
Frames won (Jans first)0–11–11–22–23–24–24–35–35–45–55–6
84Highest break32
150+ breaks0
330+ breaks2
Nutcharut Wongharuthai wins the 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship

Source: WPBSA Tournament Manager. [16]

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