World Women’s Snooker Rankings | UK Championship 2025

The official world women’s rankings have been updated for the first time during the 2025/26 season after Bai Yulu defeated Ng on Yee 4-2 to win the UK Women’s Snooker Championship for the second successive year.

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The WWS world rankings operate on a rolling two-year basis, with points earned during the 2025/26 season to replace those earned through the 2023/24 campaign. At this revision pointts from the 2023 US Open and the 2023 UK Championship have been removed and those earned at the 2025 UK Championship have been added.

The total rankings points of each player are calculated from their best 14 results during the current counting period.

Tight at The Top

The gap at the top between long-time world number one Mink Nutcharut and second ranked Ng On Yee has closed to just 1,750 points following the conclusion of play in Leeds last weekend.

With Ng having defeated Mink in the semi-finals, as well as having fewer points to defend than the Thai player, who was defending a significant amount of points following her US Open win in 2023, the Hong Kong China player would have returned to the summit of the world rankings had she been able to lift a fifth UK Championship title.

Defeat to Bai Yulu, however, means that Ng will remain in second place and with maximum points to defend next month following the expiration of her points following her victory at the 2023 Australian Open, will not be able to challenge for top spot at this year’s event in Sydney.

A fifth career ranking title for China’s Bai sees her narrow the gap further to the top two despite having played six events fewer than both her Asian rivals during the current two-year cycle. England’s Reanne Evans remains in fourth position following her last 16 defeat to Ng.

The Top 10

The biggest movers inside of the world’s top 10 are England’s Tessa Davidson and Narucha Phoemphul from Thailand, who both gained positions this weekend.

Three-time former champion Davidson rolled back the years to reach the quarter-finals of the UK Championship for the first time since she last claimed victory at the event in 1998 and is rewarded by climbing one position to number seven in the latest rankings.

For Thailand’s Phoemphul, despite falling victim to an impressive comeback by England’s Rebecca Kenna at the quarter-final stage in Leeds, the 19-year-old rises two places to a new career-high world ranking of number nine. In doing so, she becomes the youngest current player to hold a top ten position.

The pair have dislodged Mary Talbot and Amee Kamani, both of whom did not compete in Leeds, while former world champion Baipat Siripaporn drops one place to number ten.

Notable Movers

Elsewhere inside the top 50, players to gain places following their performances at the UK Championship include So Man Yan (+2), Ho Yee Ki (+5), Laura Killington (+6), Ellise Scott (+3), Zoe Killington (+1), Zeinab Shahi (+23) and Daisy May Oliver (+10), while Latvia’s Anna Prisjažņuka is a new entry at 49 having reached the quarter-final stages on her first Tour appearance in a decade.

There is also a jump of 28 positions for Scotland’s Deborah Fladgate, who reached the last 16 stage of a world ranking event for the first time following her dramatic black-ball playoff victory to separate a three-way deadlock in her round robin group.

Under-21 / Seniors

There is now little to choose in the battle for top spot in the Under-21 rankings after Thailand’s Narucha Phoemphul won her first UK junior title at the weekend to close to within 500 points of current number one Ellise Scott.

The top five positions remained unchanged, with runner-up Phakwalan Kongkaew climbing three places to ninth position to enter the top 10 for the first time.

In the Seniors rankings it is England’s Tessa Davidson who retains a position of unprecedented dominance, having won 11 of the 12 current counting events, with only the 2024 Albanian Open – which Davidson did not enter – won by a different player.

The chasing pack continues to be led by Germany’s Diana Schuler, who was narrowly ousted by Singapore’s Charlene Chai at the semi-final stage in Leeds.

Among those to gain positions include Selina Dean (+3) and Louise Jordan (+3), while debut finalist Chai enters the list in 14th position.