| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 11–14 February 2022 |
| Venue | Ding Junhui Snooker Academy |
| City | Sheffield |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | World Women's Snooker |
| Format | Round Robin for qualifying groups, Single elimination |
| Total prize fund | £17,200 |
| Winner's share | £6,000 |
| Highest break |  Ng On Yee (HKG) (97) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Nutcharut Wongharuthai (THA) |
| Runner-up |  Wendy Jans (BEL) |
| Score | 6–5 |
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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]
Reanne Evans was the defending champion, having defeated 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 Wendy Jans 6–5 in the final. She became the first Thai player to win the women's world title, the 13th different winner of the tournament since its inception in 1976, the first new champion since 2015, and the only player besides Evans or Ng to win the title in 19 years.[8] She gained a two-year professional tour card, allowing her to join the World Snooker Tour from the beginning of the following season.[9] Upon her return to Thailand, she was granted an audience with the country's prime minister Prayut Chan o-cha, and its Minister for Tourism and Sports Pipat Ratchakitprakarn.[10]
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