Bai Yulu Wins WSF Womens’s Championship
Bai Yulu has defeated OnYee Ng 4-0 to win the WSF Women’s Championship at the Hotel Marinela in Sofia and in doing so become world number one for the first time in her career.
Already a winner at the UK Championship, Niche Cues Open and Irish Open tournaments during the first half of the season, 22-year-old Bai did not lose a single frame during this week’s event in Bulgaria during what was a dominant performance to win her fourth ranking event title of the season.
The Chinese star has now won eight ranking event titles since her World Women’s Snooker Tour debut at the 2023 World Championship and becomes only the 13th player and third from Asia to hold the world number one ranking since 1983.
Bai also compiled the top break of 131 during the semi-finals – her highest to date on the WWS Tour – as well as a further run of 102 to take her total for the season to seven, itself a Tour record for a player during a single campaign.
In the final she would face OnYee Ng for the third time this season and it was the three-time world champion from Hong Kong China who appeared favourite to claim the opening frame as Bai required a snooker with just two reds remaining.
Bai, however, was able to extract the four penalty points required before ultimately producing a colour clearance to land an early blow and steal the frame by just two points.
From that point it was Bai who was able to largely control the match, breaks of 48 and 45 enough to double her advantage, before further runs of 34 and 38 during the following two frames were ultimtely enough to extend her current Tour winning streak to 39 matches.
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