CHINA is to host subsequent 12 months’s World Girls’s Snooker Championships for the primary time in its 41-year occasion historical past.

The information comes as this season’s WWSC was held in Thailand, Bangkok, and was received by the Thai rising star of Siripaporn who defeated China’s Bai YuLu within the last 6 – 3.

The occasion has solely been held exterior the UK 4 occasions in two completely different nations. Twice in India in New Delhi, and twice in Thailand, Bangkok.

Contained in the UK, it has solely been held as soon as in Wales. Solely English gamers from the UK have scooped the title. No participant from Wales, Scotland, Northern Eire or Republic has scooped a Girls’s World title.

Solely three gamers from abroad have landed a title, with Lesley McIlrath from Australia profitable in 1980 after which, after all, Hong Kong’s Ng On Yee scooping the title 3 times between the years of 2015 – 2018.

Mink Nutcharut, the World primary, scooped a title in 2022, after which her Thai counterpart Siripaporn scooped it this 12 months.

Reanne Evans is the 12-time World champion and 12-time UK Champion of the World Girls’s Snooker Tour and the Commonplace Bearer of Girls’s Snooker.

Vera Selby first received the occasion in 1976 in Middlesborough, UK.

Will probably be held in March 2024 between the 11 – seventeenth.

The World Girls’s Snooker Tour has been steadily rising in stature and has been making the headlines with a plethora of expertise coming by means of within the sport, in addition to proficient World Girls high 20 gamers with the likes of Tessa Davidson, Woking star Jasmine Bolsover, Emma Parker, who has been fearless on the Exhibition Circuit, they usually’ve appeared on TV occasions such because the 900 and the likes of Rebecca Kenna et al showing within the World Combined Doubles on the Major Tour.

900 star Mary Talbot Deegan scooped the final rating occasion of 2023 on the Eden Girls’s Masters earlier this 12 months in Coulsdon.

The winner of the WWSC 2024 will achieve a spot on the Major World Tour subsequent 12 months.

On the WWS web site, Mandy Fisher, whom SnookerZone has already interviewed, right here, mentioned: “On behalf of our group we’re all vastly excited to be heading to China for the primary time for our World Championship later this season, and specifically I want to thank Bobby Lee and the CBSA for his or her help of the occasion.

“The return {of professional} snooker to China in 2023 has underlined the significance of this market to our sport and we can’t wait to stage this iconic match in Dongguan. This match continues to develop into larger and higher with annually and the 2024 occasion represents a major step ahead for ladies’s snooker with an elevated prize fund and a incredible new venue to host the world’s greatest gamers.”

Merry Christmas to everybody on the World Girls’s Snooker Tour and we sit up for extra Girls’s Snooker Protection subsequent 12 months in 2024. 

From SnookerZone author/Journalist Chris Gaynor.