Women's World Snooker Championship

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The World Snooker Championship Women ( Ladies World Championship ) is an international snooker tournament , which will be held intermittently since 1,983th It represents the highest title and the most important tournament in the women's snooker tournament calendar. The record winner is Reanne Evans from England , who was world champion twelve times between 2005 and 2019.

prehistory

As early as 1976, a tournament with the rank of a world championship was held for the first time under the name Women's World Open . The winner was Vera Selby from England in 1980 and in 1981 two more tournaments were held before a real world championship was declared.

year venue winner finalist Result
1976 EnglandEngland Middlesbrough EnglandEngland Vera Selby EnglandEngland Muriel Hazeldene 4-0
1980 EnglandEngland Hayling Island AustraliaAustralia Lesley McIlrath WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Agnes Davies 4: 2
1981 EnglandEngland Thorness Bay EnglandEngland Vera Selby EnglandEngland Mandy Fisher 3-0

Official World Snooker Championship

The British amusement park operator Pontins had been involved in professional snooker since the 1970s. In 1977 they began to organize a youth and a women's tournament. 1983 saw the first invitation tournament for professionals ( Pontins Brean Sands ) at the Brean Sands theme park in Somerset, and it was there that they hosted the first ever Women's World Cup. Sue Foster, who had also won the Pontin's Ladies Bowl the year before , became the first female title holder of the Ladies World Championship . A year later the tournament was held again, although Pontins had dropped out as a sponsor. It was won by Stacey Hilliard, who was one of the most successful World Cup participants with six finals, even though she won the title in 1984 for the only time. In the same year there was also a Professional Championship , which was won by Mandy Fisher . Not related to her, Allison Fisher won her first title in 1985 and dominated women's snooker in the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. With seven World Cup titles, she is the second most successful World Cup participant. Until 2014, all of the title holders came from England except for the three-time title holder and three-time runner-up Karen Corr , a Northern Irishwoman.

However, the organizers struggled to find sponsors and for a long time had to start looking for new donors again after two years at the latest. In 1992 and 1996 there was no world championship at all. The venues also changed frequently, mostly smaller venues in England. In 1994 and 1995 the tournament became international for the first time and took place in New Delhi .

It was not until 1998, with the support of the WPBSA and the cigarette manufacturer Embassy , which sponsored the professional snooker championship, that the Women's World Cup was firmly established as an event. From then on, the semi-finals and finals took place as a side event of the Professional World Cup at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield . The first winner was Kelly Fisher , not related to her predecessor Allison Fisher, but similarly dominant in women's snooker. She won five of the six finals at the Crucible .

When tobacco advertising was curtailed in the UK in the 2000s, Embassy ceased to sponsor and the WPBSA got into so much financial trouble that it withdrew as a co-organizer. In 2004, no women's World Cup was held again. From 2005, the WLBSA held the tournament again without a sponsor and again relied on a permanent venue, the Snooker Center in Cambridge . 19-year-old Reanne Evans won her first title that year and went undefeated at the tournament for ten years.

It wasn't until 2015 that she lost another World Cup match against Ng On Yee from Hong Kong for the first time . The Chinese then became world champion and thus the first non-British woman to win the title.

In 2018, the WLBSA cooperated with the World Snooker Federation , a newly founded controversial amateur division of the WPBSA, which is to serve amateur players as a springboard to professional tournaments, on the condition that their national associations as representatives of the amateur world must join it, but in conflict with the official world amateur association under sport law IBSF is in which the associations were previously members and which, according to past rulings by the International Court of Justice, has worldwide jurisdiction over snooker. The WSF held a triple tournament in the second half of March with the WSF Championship , the WSF Seniors Championship and the WLBS World Women's Snooker Championship. All three competitions were held in Malta .

After the WSF Championship 2019, which was supposed to take place in the United Arab Emirates, was postponed, the Women's World Cup was held for the first time in Bangkok, Thailand. Reanne Evans was able to win her twelfth title against the Thai Nutcharut Wongharuthai.

statistics

From 1983 there were the following world champions:

year venue winner finalist Result
1983 EnglandEngland Brean Sands EnglandEngland Sue Foster EnglandEngland Maureen Baynton 8: 5
1984 1 (unknown) EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard CanadaCanada Natalie Steinmach 4: 1
1984-P 1 EnglandEngland Mandy Fisher CanadaCanada Maryann McConnell 4: 2
1985 EnglandEngland Solihull EnglandEngland Allison Fisher EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 5: 1
1986 EnglandEngland Solihull EnglandEngland Allison Fisher CanadaCanada Sue LeMaich 5-0
1987 EnglandEngland Puck pool EnglandEngland Ann-Marie Farren EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 5: 1
1988 EnglandEngland Brixham EnglandEngland Allison Fisher EnglandEngland Ann-Marie Farren 6: 1
1989 EnglandEngland Brixham EnglandEngland Allison Fisher EnglandEngland Ann-Marie Farren 6: 5
1990 EnglandEngland London Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 7: 4
1991 EnglandEngland London EnglandEngland Allison Fisher Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr 8: 2
1992 not carried out
1993 EnglandEngland Blackpool EnglandEngland Allison Fisher EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 9: 3
1994 IndiaIndia New Delhi EnglandEngland Allison Fisher EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 7: 3
1995 IndiaIndia New Delhi Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr EnglandEngland Kim Shaw 6: 3
1996 not carried out
1997 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Llanelli Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher 6: 3
1998 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr 5-0
1999 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr 4: 2
2000 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher EnglandEngland Lisa Ignall 4: 1
2001 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Lisa Quick ScotlandScotland Lynette Horsburgh 4: 2
2002 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher EnglandEngland Lisa Quick 4: 1
2003 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher EnglandEngland Lisa Quick 4: 1
2004 not carried out
2005 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans ScotlandScotland Lynette Horsburgh 6: 4
2006 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Emma Bonney 5: 3
2007 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Katie Henrick 5: 3
2008 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland June Banks 5: 2
2009 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Maria Catalano 5: 2
2010 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Maria Catalano 5: 1
2011 EnglandEngland Bury St Edmunds EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Emma Bonney 5: 1
2012 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Maria Catalano 5: 3
2013 EnglandEngland Cambridge EnglandEngland Reanne Evans EnglandEngland Maria Catalano 6: 3
2014 EnglandEngland Leeds EnglandEngland Reanne Evans Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee 6-0
2015 EnglandEngland Leeds Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee EnglandEngland Emma Bonney 6: 2
2016 EnglandEngland Leeds EnglandEngland Reanne Evans Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee 6: 4
2017 SingaporeSingapore Singapore Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee IndiaIndia Vidya Pillai 6: 5
2018 MaltaMalta San Pawl il-Baħar Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee EnglandEngland Maria Catalano 5-0
2019 ThailandThailand Bangkok EnglandEngland Reanne Evans ThailandThailand Nutcharut Wongharuthai 6: 3
2020
1 In 1984 a professional title was played for the first time in addition to the amateur title.
Eternal list
No Winner Number year
1 EnglandEngland Reanne Evans 12 2005–2014, 2016, 2019
2 EnglandEngland Allison Fisher 7th 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994
3 EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher 5 1998-2000, 2002, 2003
4th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Karen Corr 3 1990, 1995, 1997
Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee 2015, 2017, 2018
6th EnglandEngland Sue Foster 1 1983
EnglandEngland Stacey Hillyard 1 1984
EnglandEngland Mandy Fisher 1 1984
EnglandEngland Ann-Marie Farren 1 1987
EnglandEngland Lisa Quick 1 2001

Amateur World Championship

When professional snooker was in crisis in the early 2000s, the IBSF amateur association decided to host a women's world championship in addition to the men's and junior amateur world championships. In 2003 it took place in competition with the WLBSA World Championships in China and Kelly Fisher secured the title in both tournaments. The following year there was only the IBSF World Cup and Reanne Evans won the title. The following year the WLBSA World Championship returned and Evans began her triumphant advance there. But the Amateur World Cup was suspended this year. Both competitions have been running in parallel since 2006. The Belgian Wendy Jans , who reached the finals in the first five competitions, became the first non-British woman to win the title this year, only to lose the final to Evans in the following two years. In 2009, with Ng On Yee , a player from Asia won for the first time, and she later became the official world champion. The following year, the Chinese from Hong Kong defended her title.

In 2011, the tournament planned in Bahrain was canceled after the unrest surrounding the Arab Spring . The men's tournament in Bangalore, India was rescheduled later that year, but the women's World Cup was canceled. From 2012 to 2017, Wendy Jans won the title six times in a row, making her a record holder with a total of seven.

year venue winner finalist Result
2003 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Jiangmen EnglandEngland Kelly Fisher BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans 5: 2
2004 NetherlandsNetherlands Veldhoven EnglandEngland Reanne Evans BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans 5: 1
2005 not carried out
2006 JordanJordan Amman BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans Hong KongHong Kong Jaique Ip Wan In 5-0
2007 ThailandThailand Nakhon Ratchasima EnglandEngland Reanne Evans BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans 5-0
2008 AustriaAustria catfish EnglandEngland Reanne Evans BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans 5: 3
2009 IndiaIndia Hyderabad Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee AustraliaAustralia Kathy Parasis 5: 1
2010 SyriaSyria Damascus Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee Hong KongHong Kong Jaique Ip Wan In 5-0
2011 not carried out
2012 BulgariaBulgaria Sofia BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee 5: 1
2013 LatviaLatvia Daugavpils BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chunxia Shi 5: 3
2014 IndiaIndia Bangalore BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans RussiaRussia Anastasia Nechaeva 5: 2
2015 EgyptEgypt Hurghada BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans RussiaRussia Anastasia Nechaeva 5: 1
2016 QatarQatar Doha BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans IndiaIndia Amee Kamani 5-0
2017 QatarQatar Doha BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans ThailandThailand Waratthanun Sukritthanes 5: 2
2018 MyanmarMyanmar Rangoon ThailandThailand Waratthanun Sukritthanes BelgiumBelgium Wendy Jans 5: 2
2019 TurkeyTurkey Antalya Hong KongHong Kong Ng On Yee ThailandThailand Nutcharat Wongharuthai 5: 2
2020

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