World Women's Snooker Championship
Tournament information | |
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Established | 1976 |
Organisation(s) | World Women's Snooker[2] |
Total prize fund | £17,200 |
Recent edition | 2022 |
Current champion | Nutcharut Wongharuthai |
The World Women's Snooker Championship (formerly known as the Women's World Open Championship from 1976 to 1981 and the World Ladies Snooker Championship from 1983 to 2018) is the leading tournament on the World Women's Snooker Tour. The reigning champion is Nutcharut Wongharuthai.
Beginning in 2022, the women's world champion will automatically receive a place on the main professional World Snooker Tour. If the tournament winner already has a place on the professional tour, the next highest ranked player will receive a place.[3]
History
The tournament began as the Women's World Open Championship, which, as the most prestigious event for female players, was effectively the world championship.[4] The first tournament was held in 1976, and the event was held again in 1980 and 1981.
The competition was staged from 1983 onward as the World Ladies Snooker Championship. Over the next two decades, the tournament was dominated by Allison Fisher (7 titles), Karen Corr (3 titles), and Kelly Fisher (5 titles), all of whom eventually moved to the United States to compete on the WPBA nine-ball pool tour.
From 1998 to 2003, Embassy sponsored the tournament, with the semi-finals and final taking place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield during the World Snooker Championship.[4] After restrictions on tobacco advertising were introduced in 2003, the tournament lost its sponsorship and was not held in 2004. The event was revived in 2005. The most successful player since that time has been Reanne Evans, who has won the title 12 times, including ten consecutive victories between 2005 and 2014.
The 2017 championship was held in Toa Payoh, Singapore, the first time since 1995 that the tournament was held outside of the UK.[5]
In 2018, the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association was rebranded as World Women's Snooker, and the tournament was renamed the World Women's Snooker Championship.[2]
In 2021, the tournament trophy was renamed the Mandy Fisher Trophy.[3] Fisher founded the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association in 1981, won the women's world title in 1984, and currently serves as president of World Women's Snooker.
The 2022 edition of the World Women’s Snooker Championships took place at the Ding Junhui Academy in Sheffield from 11 February to 14 February, the first full tournament since 2019.
Finals
Statistics by player
Rank | Name | Nationality | Winner | Runner-up |
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1 | Reanne Evans | England | 12 | 0 |
2 | Allison Fisher | England | 7 | 0 |
3 | Kelly Fisher | England | 5 | 1 |
4 | Karen Corr | Northern Ireland | 3 | 3 |
5 | Ng On Yee | Hong Kong | 3 | 2 |
6 | Vera Selby | England | 2 | 0 |
7 | Stacey Hillyard | England | 1 | 5 |
8 | Ann-Marie Farren | England | 1 | 2 |
Lisa Quick | England | 1 | 2 | |
10 | Mandy Fisher | England | 1 | 1 |
Nutcharut Wongharuthai | Thailand | 1 | 1 | |
12 | Lesley McIlrath | Australia | 1 | 0 |
Sue Foster | England | 1 | 0 | |
14 | Maria Catalano | England | 0 | 5 |
15 | Emma Bonney | England | 0 | 3 |
16 | Lynette Horsburgh | Scotland | 0 | 2 |
17 | Muriel Hazeldene | England | 0 | 1 |
Agnes Davies | Wales | 0 | 1 | |
Maureen Baynton | England | 0 | 1 | |
Natalie Stelmach | Canada | 0 | 1 | |
Maryann McConnell | Canada | 0 | 1 | |
Sue LeMaich | Canada | 0 | 1 | |
Kim Shaw | England | 0 | 1 | |
Lisa Ingall | England | 0 | 1 | |
Katie Henrick | England | 0 | 1 | |
June Banks | England | 0 | 1 | |
Vidya Pillai | India | 0 | 1 | |
Wendy Jans | Belgium | 0 | 1 |
Active players are shown in bold.
Notes
- ^ A championship was started in 1996 but did not conclude until 1997 and is recorded as the 1997 Championship. See the article for 1997 (linked one row below) for further details.
References
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