2022 World Women's Snooker Championship
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2020 World Women's Snooker Championship
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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]
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
Pipat Ratchakitprakarn.[10]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:[11]
- Winner: £6,000
- Runner-up: £2,500
- Semi-final: £1,250
- Quarter-final: £600
- Last 16: £300
- Preliminary Round : £150
- Highest break: £200
- Total: £17,200
Final summary
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
won her first women's world titleThe 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
Ng On Yee (2) | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
 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) 
|
5–6 | Nutcharut Wongharuthai (3)
 | |||||||||
| Frame | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 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) | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 4–3 | 5–3 | 5–4 | 5–5 | 5–6 |
| 84 | Highest break | 32 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50+ breaks | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 | 30+ breaks | 2 | |||||||||
| Nutcharut Wongharuthai wins the 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship | |||||||||||
Source: WPBSA Tournament Manager.[16]
References
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- ^ a b "Reanne Evans Out of 2022 Women's World Championship". SnookerHQ. 13 February 2022. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ "Evans and Yee defeated on day of upsets at World Women's Snooker Championship". www.insidethegames.biz. 13 February 2022. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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- ^ a b "Wongharuthai is World Women's Snooker Champion". World Women's Snooker. 15 February 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Wongharuthai Given Hero's Welcome on Thailand Return". World Snooker. 3 March 2022. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ "World Women's Snooker Championship 2022 entry pack" (PDF). WLBS. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Wongharuthai wins World Women's Snooker Championship on final black". www.insidethegames.biz. 14 February 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Nutcharut Wongharuthai - A New Star Of Women's Snooker Is Born". The Sportsman. 15 February 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "World Women's Snooker Championship 2022 - Nutchurat Wonharuthai produces stunning comeback to claim crown and tour card". Eurosport. 14 February 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Wongharuthai wins World Women's title". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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