REANNE wins women’s
world snooker title for a record 10th successive year
Players from 13 countries descended on Leeds in a bid to dethrone
the Queen of Ladies’ Snooker but left paying homage to the
28-year-old who has reigned for a decade.
Evans, from Dudley, West Midlands, defeated two-time IBSF world
champion Ng On Yee (Hong Kong) 6-0 in the final of the £5,000 Eden
Resources World Championship at the Northern Snooker Centre.
And in what the
boxing fraternity might describe as a unification match-up, the
World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association (WLBSA) champion
accounted for Wendy Jans, the current IBSF world and European
champion from Belgium, 4-2 in the last-four.
Emma Bonney
(Portsmouth) knocked out world number one Maria Catalano 4-2 in the
last-eight before going out 4-3 to Ng.
The World Championship was the centre
piece of The 2013/14 Eden Resources Festival of Snooker (and
Billiards) in Association with Northern Snooker Centre.
Elsewhere, Derby teenager Hannah Jones
defeated 16-year-old WLBSA débutante Yana Shut (Belarus) 3-1 in a
thrilling match to retain the Under-21 crown.
Jones, 17, had accounted for Australian
star Jessica Woods 2-0 in the last-four.
Woods, the 2014 Oceania women’s champion impressed players and
spectators with her performance throughout the event. The WLBSA
thanked her for making the long trip and looks forward to seeing her
again.
India’s Chitra Magimairaj clinched the Seniors trophy at her first
attempt.
The 41-year old compiled a 66 break in the preliminary round against
Carmelita Yumito (Brazil), saw off defending champion Jenny Poulter,
beat her compatriot and former champion Revanna Umadevi, and
defeated Alena Asmolava (Belarus) 3-0 in the final.
Poulter (Maidstone) had the consolation of collecting the Plate
trophy. Ten-year-old Derby schoolgirl Ellie Jones, competing in only
her second WLBSA event, won her first ever frame in a 2-1
quarter-final defeat by Umadevi.
Hong Kong pair Ng On Yee and So Man Yan completed a hat-trick of
Ladies Pairs titles with a 3-1 victory over Reanne Evans and Anita
Maflin.
World number 27 Ben Woollaston teamed up with Shut to claim the
Mixed Pairs. Jans recorded a break of 102 in the semi-finals.
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Leeds ::
23 April
2014
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