2024 World Women's Snooker Championship

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2024 World Women's Snooker Championship
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Tournament information
Dates11–17 March 2024 (2024-03-11 – 2024-03-17)
VenueChangping Gymnasium
City Dongguan, Guangdong
CountryChina
Organisation World Women's Snooker
Total prize fund£33,400
Winner's share£10,000
Highest breakFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN) (122)
Final
ChampionFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)
Runner-upFlag of Thailand.svg  Mink Nutcharut  (THA)
Score6–5
← 2023

The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place from 11 to 17 March 2024 at the Changping Gymnasium in Dongguan, China. [1] Organised by World Women's Snooker, the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association, and Cantonese Snooker, [2] the tournament was the 41st edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship and the first to be staged in China. [3] [4] The winner received £10,000 from a total prize pool of £33,400, as well as a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. [3]

Contents

A total of 45 players participated in the tournament's round-robin group stage,16 of whom qualified for the knockout stage. Baipat Siripaporn was the defending champion, having defeated Bai Yulu 6‍–‍3 in the 2023 final, [5] but she lost 0–4 to Reanne Evans in the last 16. [6] After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, [7] Bai defeated Mink Nutcharut 6–5 in the final, [8] winning the deciding frame on the last pink ball to secure her first women's world title. [9] [10] It was Bai's second ranking title from her five ranking event appearances on the women's tour. She became the fourth Asian player to win the women's world title—following Hong Kong's Ng On-yee and Thailand's Mink and Baipat—and the first winner from mainland China. [11] The event produced six century breaks, of which Bai's 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final. [12] [8]

The World Women's Under-21 Championship and World Women's Seniors Championship were staged concurrently with the main tournament. [2] Bai also won the Under-21 title, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final. [13] [14] Tessa Davidson won her second Seniors world title, beating Han Fang 3–1 in the final. [15] [14]

Background

The Women's Professional Snooker Championship was held ten times between 1934 and 1950, with no tournaments staged between 1941 and 1947. Ruth Harrison won eight of those ten events. [16] The Women's World Open, first held in 1976, is recognised as the beginning of the modern World Women's Snooker Championship. [17] [18] English player Reanne Evans holds the record for the most wins, having won 12 titles, including ten consecutive victories from 2005 to 2014. [19]

Format

A total of 45 players participated in the tournament's round-robin group stage,16 of whom qualified for the knockout stage. The group stage consisted of nine groups of five players, with two seeded players in each group. The nine group winners advanced to the knockout stage. The nine group runners-up and the best five third-placed players played a preliminary round for the seven remaining places. The 16 players were placed in the draw based on their performance in the group stage.

All group stage and preliminary round matches were played as the best of five frames . The last-16 and quarter-final matches were played as the best of seven, semi-finals as the best of nine, and the final as the best of 11 frames. [20]

The tournament was streamed in China on Huya, TikTok, and WeChat. International coverage was available via the World Women's Snooker Facebook page and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's YouTube channel. [21] The audience peak in China was 300,000 via a streaming platform, and the cumulative viewing figure for the country was 175.4 million. Over six million people accessed coverage via Douyin. [22] There were 700,000 views via YouTube, including 200,000 for the final. [22]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below: [1]

Group stage

The results for the group stage of the tournament is shown below. All matches were played as the best of five frames . [20] The nine group winners advanced to the knockout stage. The nine group runners-up and the best five third-placed players contested a preliminary round for the seven remaining places. The 16 players were placed in the draw based on their performance in the group stage.

In the tables below, L16 = Qualified to last 16 of knockout stage; Prelim. = Qualified to preliminary round of knockout stage; Elim. = Eliminated from tournament.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group I

Knockout stage

The results for the knockout stage of the tournament are shown below. [25] Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote their seeding based on group stage performance, and players in bold denote match winners. The last-16 and quarter-final matches were played as the best of seven, semi-finals as the best of nine, and the final as the best of 11 frames . [20]

Preliminary round
Best of 5 frames 		Last 16
Best of 7 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 7 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Final
Best of 11 frames
          
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)(9)4
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Fong Mei Mei (HKG)(21)0
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Fong Mei Mei (HKG)(21)3
Flag of Mongolia.svg B. Sergelenbaatar (MNG)(26)2
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)(9)4
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Katrina Wan  (HKG)(27)2
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Cheung Yee Ting (HKG)(19)2
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Katrina Wan  (HKG)(27)4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)(9)5
Flag of England.svg  Reanne Evans  (ENG)(4)3
Flag of England.svg  Reanne Evans  (ENG)(4)4
Flag of Thailand.svg  Baipat Siripaporn  (THA)(1)0
Flag of Thailand.svg  Baipat Siripaporn  (THA)(1)3
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Mo Tiantian (CHN)0
Flag of England.svg  Reanne Evans  (ENG)(4)4
Flag of England.svg Mary Talbot-Deegan (ENG)(6)0
Flag of England.svg Mary Talbot-Deegan (ENG)(6)3
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Jaique Ip  (HKG)(17)0
Flag of England.svg Mary Talbot-Deegan (ENG)(6)4
Flag of England.svg  Tessa Davidson  (ENG)(8)3
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Bai Yulu  (CHN)(9)6
Flag of Thailand.svg  Mink Nutcharut  (THA)(2)5
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Ng On-yee  (HKG)(3)4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Deng Xinshun (CHN)0
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Deng Xinshun (CHN)3
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Ho Yee Ki (HKG)(11)1
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Ng On-yee  (HKG)(3)4
Flag of India.svg A. Ramachandran (IND)(13)1
Flag of India.svg  Amee Kamani  (IND)(12)2
Flag of Mongolia.svg N. Bayarsaikhan (MNG)(14)3
Flag of Mongolia.svg N. Bayarsaikhan (MNG)0
Flag of India.svg A. Ramachandran (IND)(13)4
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Ng On-yee  (HKG)(3)0
Flag of Thailand.svg  Mink Nutcharut  (THA)(2)5
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Han Fang (CHN)(14)4
Flag of Japan.svg Miina Tani (JPN)(18)2
Flag of Japan.svg Miina Tani (JPN)(18)3
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Chu Pui Ying (HKG)(22)0
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Han Fang (CHN)0
Flag of Thailand.svg  Mink Nutcharut  (THA)(2)4
Flag of England.svg  Rebecca Kenna  (ENG)(5)3
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yang Meng (CHN)0
Flag of England.svg  Rebecca Kenna  (ENG)(5)0
Flag of Thailand.svg  Mink Nutcharut  (THA)(2)4

Final

Final
Final: Best of 11 frames. Referee: Wang Bokai
Changping Gymnasium, Dongguan, China, 17 March 2024 [26]
Bai Yulu (9)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 		6–5 Mink Nutcharut (2)
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
Frame scores:50‍–‍41, 64‍–‍69, 126‍–‍7 (122), 60‍–‍20
7‍–‍55, 6‍–‍77, 31‍–‍86 (62), 97‍–‍6 (97), 119‍–‍9 (75), 39‍–‍61, 58‍–‍46
(frame 3)122Highest break62 (frame 7)
1Century breaks0

Century breaks

A total of six century breaks were made in the tournament. [12]

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