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:[1]
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.[2]
The event featured 53 players, from 14 different countries.[3] 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)
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.[4][5]Reanne Evans and Wendy Jans were the only two players not to lose a frame in qualifying[5] and were seeded first and second respectively into the knockout stage. All of the original top twelve seeds qualified for the knockout.[6]
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 frames won with none lost in the tournament to that point. Baipat Siripaporn fluked the pink and left herself with an easy pot on the black in the deciding frame of their quarter-final match to beat Rebecca Kenna 4–3.[7] Defending champion Ng On-yee was also beaten in a quarter-final match, losing 1–4 to Nutcharut Wongharuthai.[8][9] In the semi-finals, Evans beat Baipat Siripaporn 5–3 and Wongharuthai beat Jans 5–2.[8]
The highest break of the tournament was 92 by Evans.[14]
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.[15]
^Huart, Matt. "Last 16 Set in Thailand". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
