2024 World Women's Snooker Championship

2024 World Women's Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates11–17 March 2024 (2024-03-11 – 2024-03-17)
VenueChangping Gymnasium
CityDongguan, Guangdong
CountryChina
OrganisationWorld Women's Snooker
Total prize fund£33,400
Winner's share£10,000
Highest break Bai Yulu (CHN) (122)
Final
Champion Bai Yulu (CHN)
Runner-up Mink Nutcharut (THA)
Score6–5
← 2023

The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place from 11 to 17 March 2024 at the Changping Gymnasium in Dongguan, China.[1] Organised by World Women's Snooker, the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association, and Cantonese Snooker,[2] the tournament was the 41st edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship and the first to be staged in China.[3][4] The winner received £10,000 from a total prize pool of £33,400, as well as a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season.[3]

A total of 45 players participated in the tournament's round-robin group stage,16 of whom qualified for the knockout stage. Baipat Siripaporn was the defending champion, having defeated Bai Yulu 6‍–‍3 in the 2023 final,[5] but she lost 0–4 to Reanne Evans in the last 16.[6] After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals,[7] Bai defeated Mink Nutcharut 6–5 in the final,[8] winning the deciding frame on the last pink ball to secure her first women's world title.[9][10] It was Bai's second ranking title from her five ranking event appearances on the women's tour. She became the fourth Asian player to win the women's world title—following Hong Kong's Ng On-yee and Thailand's Mink and Baipat—and the first winner from mainland China.[11] The event produced six century breaks, of which Bai's 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final.[12][8]

The World Women's Under-21 Championship and World Women's Seniors Championship were staged concurrently with the main tournament.[2] Bai also won the Under-21 title, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final.[13][14] Tessa Davidson won her second Seniors world title, beating Han Fang 3–1 in the final.[15][14]

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