World Women’s Snooker Rankings | WSF Women’s Championship 2026
The official world women’s rankings have been updated for the first time in 2026 and there is a new world number one for the first time in over two years after Bai Yulu captured the WSF Women’s Championship title at the Hotel Marinela in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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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 points earned at the 2024 Belgian Women’s Open have been removed and those earned at the 2026 WSF Women’s Championship have been added.
The total ranking points of each player are calculated from their best 14 results during the current counting period.
Bai Becomes 13th Number One
World champion Bai Yulu has made history as she has become the first player from China to attain the World Women’s Snooker Tour number one ranking and only the 13th overall following her fourth ranking event title of the season in Sofia.
The 22-year-old replaces Thailand’s Mink Nutcharut, who was defending maximum points at this event following her triumph at the Belgian Open two years prior. With Mink having suffered a quarter-final exit in Bulgaria to OnYee Ng, the door was opened for either Bai or Ng to claim top spot if they could win the tournament.
Following a 4-0 victory against Ng in the final, which saw Bai capture a world ranking title without the loss of a single frame for the first time in her career, the reigning world champion was able to eradicate an 11,375 points deficit prior to the event, to eclipse her Thai rival by just 625 points.
With just 2,375 points separating the top three players, the battle is set to continue next month at the Belgian Women’s Open at which Ng will be defending maximum points following her victory against Mink Nutcharut at the Albanian Women’s Open two years ago.
Thai Duo Climb
Thailand’s Narucha Phoemphul has achieved a new career-high world ranking of number six after she reached the semi-finals in Sofia to edge ahead of India’s Anupama Ramachandran at this rankings revision.
The 20-year-old has now progressed to four world ranking event semi-finals since October 2024, most notably at the 2025 Australian Open where she reached the title match.
Former world champion Baipat Siripaporn is also up one position to number eighth, ahead of England’s Tessa Davidson who was defending quarter-final points last week.
Notable Movers
Outside of the top ten, Hong Kong China’s So Man Yan is up one position to 11th after she made it back-to-back ranking event quarter-finals in Sofia.
There are also significant jumps for Thailand’s Panchaya Channoi and Latvia’s Anna Prisjažņuka following their respective runs to the knockout rounds at the event.
For Channoi, who reached the semi-finals of a world ranking event for the first time following two last 16 runs in 2025, the 17-year-old jumps 29 places to reach a new career-best of 16th position. Her rise means that there are now five players from Thailand inside of the world’s top 16 for the first time – the most of any single nation currently.
Meanwhile for current European champion Prisjažņuka, the 35-year-old gains 27 places after she matched her result at this season’s UK Championship by reaching the quarter-finals to reach a new best position of number 24.
In at number 47 is a new entry as Moldovan debutant Alexandra Ceruta reached her first quarter-final to enter the world ranking list inside of the top 50.
The World Women’s Snooker Tour continues with the staging of the Belgian Open which runs from 6-8 February 2026 in Bruges, Belgium. Enter now via WPBSA SnookerScores.
