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Friday-Wednesday 20-25 April 2012
Maria Catalano - WLBSA East Anglian Champion 2011
Photograph ©Monique Limbos - used by Pro9 with express permission.
THE chasing pack can smell blood as women’s snooker star Reanne Evans bids to end a nightmare season with a record eighth successive world title
Cambridge Snooker Centre hosts the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s World Championships, which start on Friday, April 20.
Seven-time champion Evans saw her record 90-match winning streak ended by Maria Catalano in the Northern Championship back in September.
Although the 26-year-old from Dudley, West Midlands , returned to winning ways in the UK Championship, she missed the next two events after being struck down by pleurisy.
And Catalano, now ranked number one, inflicted another defeat on Evans, who has dropped to number three, in the preliminary round of the Connie Gough Memorial.
Winner of three ranking tournaments this season, Catalano, 29, also from Dudley, must see 2012 as her best chance of fulfilling her long-held dream of a first world title.
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The WLBSA are delighted to welcome back Hong Kong quartet Jaique Ip Wan In, Yu Ching Ching, Ng On Yee and So Man Yan. And Chitra Magimairaj and Revanna Umadevi from India .
Tatjana Vasiljeva will again team up with world number 26 Joe Perry as the Latvia/Chatteris double act chases a hat-trick of Mixed Pairs titles. Former WLBSA chairman, and now president, Mandy Fisher is also in the line-up for the opening event on Friday.
The round-robin stage of the main competition kicks off at 10am on Saturday with the final scheduled for 2.30pm on Tuesday. Seniors play to a finish on Sunday and the Plate competition will be decided on Monday.
Southern Classic champion Emma Bonney, the world number two from Portsmouth, could be the first to claim both the snooker and billiards crowns since Kelly Fisher in 2003. Bonney will be seeking a fifth straight billiards title on Wednesday.
The WLBSA thanks Cambridge Snooker Centre for hosting the events.
WLBSA WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS - PROGRAMME | ||
Date | Time | Event |
Fri, April 20 Sat, April 21 Sun, April 22 Mon, April 23 Tues, April 24 Wed, April 25 | 12.30 10.00 10.00 TBA 09.30 10.00 14.00 10.30 14.30 10.00 15.30 | World Mixed Pairs World Ladies Snooker round-robin groups World Ladies Snooker round-robin groups World Ladies Seniors Plate competition World Ladies Snooker last-16 (best-of-five) World Ladies Snooker quarter-finals (best-of-five) World Ladies Snooker semi-finals (best-of-seven) World Ladies Snooker final (best-of-nine) World Ladies Billiards group stages World Ladies Billiards final |
WORLD LADIES BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER ASSOCIATION |
WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS - DEFENDING CHAMPIONS |
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Reanne Evans MIXED PAIRS: Tatjana Vasiljeva & Joe Perry WORLD SENIORS: June Banks WORLD BILLIARDS: Emma Bonney |
WORLD LADIES BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER ASSOCIATION |
WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS - ENTRIES |
| Reanne Evans (Dudley, West Mids ) Maria Catalano (Dudley, West Mids ) Emma Bonney ( Portsmouth ) Katie Henrick ( Bickley , Kent ) Eva Palmius (Isleham, Cambs) Jenny Poulter ( Maidstone ) Chris Sharpe ( Chelmsford ) Marianne Williams (Smallfield, Surrey ) Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) Seniors only Tina Owen-Sevilton ( Taunton ) Natascha Niermann ( Cambridge ) Naomi Clare (Ripley, Derbys ) Maureen Rowland (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear) Jasmine Bolsover ( Woking ) Jan Hughes (St Neots, Cambs) Tatjana Vasiljeva ( Latvia ) Chitra Magimairaj ( India ) Revanna Umadevi ( India ) Yu Ching Ching ( Hong Kong ) Jaique Ip Wan In ( Hong Kong ) So Man Yan ( Hong Kong ) Ng On Yee ( Hong Kong ) Vicky Carter (Sandy, Beds) Suzie Opacic (Brambridge, Hants) Martina Lumsden ( Eastbourne ) Mandy Fisher (Wisbech, Cambs) Mixed Pairs only Fran Calvert ( Lowestoft ) Mixed Pairs only |
WORLD LADIES BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER ASSOCIATION |
WORLD BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP - ENTRIES |
| Emma Bonney ( Portsmouth ) Chitra Magimairaj ( India ) Eva Palmius (Isleham, Cambs) Tina Owen-Sevilton ( Taunton ) Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) Maureen Rowland (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear) Revanna Umadevi ( India ) |
WLBSA PROVISIONAL RANKINGS PRIOR TO SOUTHERN CLASSIC | |||
Position | Name | Town | Points |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | Maria Catalano Emma Bonney Reanne Evans Vicky Carter Yu Ching Ching Jaique Ip Wan In Tina Owen-Sevilton Katie Henrick Natascha Niermann Jenny Poulter Gaye Jones Jan Hughes Eva Palmius Hannah Jones Ng On Yee Suzie Opacic Marianne Williams So Man Yan Jasmine Bolsover Karen Corr Chris Sharpe Martina Lumsden Naomi Clare Maureen Rowland Kim O'Brien Pam Wood Fran Calvert Jodie Symes Shaghayegh Sanei June Banks Tatjana Vasiljeva Revanna Umadevi | Dudley, West Midlands Portsmouth Dudley, West Midlands Sandy, Beds Hong Kong Hong Kong Bridgwater, Somerset Bickley, Kent Cambridge Maidstone, Kent Melksham, Wilts St Neots, Cambs Isleham, Cambs Derby Hong Kong Brambridge, Hants Smallfield, Surrey Hong Kong Woking Northern Ireland Chelmsford Eastbourne Ripley, Derbys Wallsend, Tyne & Wear Bury St Edmunds Newcastle Lowestoft Swindon Iran Orpington, Kent Latvia India | 240 175 115 115 110 110 100 95 85 80 75 70 65 65 65 55 55 50 45 35 30 25 20 20 15 10 10 10 5 0 0 0 |