The 2019 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Hi-End Snooker Club, Bangkok from 20 to 23 June 2019. Reanne Evans won the event with a 6–3 victory against Nutcharut Wongharuthai in the final. This was Evans' twelfth world championship victory.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:

Winner: £5,500 Runner-up: £2,500 Semi-final: £1,250 Quarter-final: £500 Last 16: £250 Highest break: £200 Total: £14,700

Participants Participants had to be nominated by their national snooker federations. The top 30 players in the World Women's Snooker rankings following the Festival of Women's Snooker events were eligible, and national federations were each able to nominate up to eight further players.

The event featured 53 players, from 14 different countries. There were twelve seeded players for the qualifying phase, with one drawn into each of the twelve qualifying groups.

Players Participating, by Country (Seedings for the qualifying groups are in brackets) Country Players Names Australia 5 Belinda Ngo, Janine Rollings, Jessica Woods, Judy Dangerfield, Theresa Whitten Belgium 1 Wendy Jans (12) England 6 Reanne Evans (2), Rebecca Kenna (3), Emma Parker (7), Stephanie Daughtery (8), Connie Stephens, Fran Calvert, Germany 1 Diana Schuler (6) Hong Kong 7 Ng On-yee (1), Ho Yee Ki (10), Pui Ying Mini Chu (11), Jaique Ip Wan In, Mei Mei Fong, So Man Yan, Yee Ting Cheung India 8 Arantxa Sanchis, Chitra Magimairaj, Devanshi Galundia, Indira Gowda, Neeta Kothari, Pooja Galundia, Revanna Umadevi, Varshaa Sanjeev Iran 3 Parisa Darvishvand, Sara Baharvandi, Zeinab Shahi Ireland 1 Ronda Sheldreck Japan 2 Muramatu Sakura, Tani Mina Malaysia 3 Shok Shea Tan, Siew Boon Lim, Sook Kwan Lee Russia 2 Aleksandra Riabinina, Ksenia Zhukova Singapore 2 Charlene Chai, Tan Bee Yen Thailand 11 Nutcharut Wongharuthai (4), Waratthanun Sukritthanes (9), Baipat Siripaporn, Chanidapha Wongharuthai, Panchaya Channoi, Petlada Auerpongpan, Pimchanok Phoemphu, Ploychompoo Laokiatphong, Sasicha Nakprasit, Thitaporn Nakkaew, Vutthiphan Kongkaket Wales 1 Laura Evans (5)

Tournament summary Qualifying Groups

The group stage began 20 June. There were twelve groups, each with either four or five players. The top two qualifiers from each group proceeded into the knockout stage. Reanne Evans and Wendy Jans were the only two players not to lose a frame in qualifying and were seeded first and second respectively into the knockout stage. All of the original top twelve seeds qualified for the knockout.

Main draw knockout Wendy Jans continued her good run from the qualifying groups with 4–0 wins over Arantxa Sanchis in the last 16 and Ploychompoo Laokiatphong to reach 17 won with none lost in the tournament to that point. Baipat Siripaporn the and left herself with an easy on the in the deciding frame of their quarter-final match to beat Rebecca Kenna 4–3. Defending champion Ng On-yee was also beaten in a quarter-final match, losing 1–4 to Nutcharut Wongharuthai. In the semi-finals, Evans beat Baipat Siripaporn 5–3 and Wongharuthai beat Jans 5–2.

Evans beat Wongharuthai 6–3 in the final to win her twelfth World Women's Snooker Championship title, maintaining her record of never having lost in the final, and collected a prize of £6,000. An early day motion congratulating Evans on her win was tabled in the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Ian Austin, the Member of Parliament for Dudley North.

The highest break of the tournament was 92 by Evans.

Challenge Cup So Man Yan won the Challenge Cup event for players who did not qualify for the knockout rounds of the main competition, beating Chitra Magimairaj 3–2 in the final.

Results

Main draw Players listed in bold indicate match winner.

Final Source: WPBSA Tournament Manager. Final: Best-of-11 framesBangkok, 23 June 2019. Reanne Evans 6–3 Nutcharut Wongharuthai Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Reanne Evans 30+ Breaks 63- 64- 73- 5- 73- 53- 0- 92(92) 70(43) Nutcharut Wongharuthai 30+ Breaks 82(61) 37- 43- 87(45) 8- 35- 84(56) 0- 32- Frames won (Evans first) 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 3–2 4–2 4–3 5–3 6–392 Highest break61 1 50+ breaks 21 30+ breaks 1Reanne Evans wins the 2019 World Women's Snooker Championship

References

External links Qualifying Group Results (WPBSA Tournament Manager) Tournament Final:Reanne Evans vs Nutcharut Wongharuthai (YouTube)