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Bai Yulu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Bai (白).

Bai Yulu (Chinese: 白雨露; born 10 July 2003) is a Chinese snooker player. A former world junior champion,[2][3] she is the reigning women's world champion, having won the 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship. The first player from mainland China to win the women's world title, she received a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. At the 2024 UK Championship, Bai became the first female player to win three matches at a ranking event.[4][5][6]

Bai Yulu
Born (2003-07-10) July 10, 2003 (age 21)
Weinan, Shaanxi, China
Sport country China
Professional2024–present
Highest rankingWorld Women's Snooker: 4[1]
Current ranking 120 (as of 11 November 2024)

Early life

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Bai Yulu was born in Weinan, Shaanxi. Her parents went to work in Dongguan, Guangdong when she was a child. After she started school, she moved to Dongguan to live with her parents.[7]

Career

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Bai won the women's 2019 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship in Qingdao with a 4–0 victory over Mink Nutcharut in the final. She celebrated her 16th birthday during the tournament.[8][9][10] She reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 IBSF Women's World Snooker Championship,[11] making the three highest breaks of the event: 91, 81 and 78.[12] Accompanied by her mother, as she was unable as a 16-year-old to travel alone, she competed in the 2019 Hong Kong World Women's Masters, where she lost 1–4 to Rebecca Kenna in the final.[13][14]

She made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.[15] She made a 127 break in her group match against Amee Kamani, the highest break in the tournament's history, surpassing Kelly Fisher's 125 at the 2003 event.[16] She defeated 12-time champion Reanne Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, but lost the final 3–6 to Baipat Siripaporn.[17][18] She won her first women's ranking title at the 2023 British Women's Open, defeating Evans 4–3 in the final.[15][19]

The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was the first edition of the tournament to be staged in China. After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals,[20] Bai secured her first women's world title with a 6–5 victory over Mink in the final.[21] Her 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final.[21] Winning the world women's title secured Bai a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season.[21] She also won the concurrent 2024 World Women's Under-21 Snooker Championship, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final.[22]

Bai became the first woman since Kelly Fisher in 1999 to win back-to-back matches at a ranking event when she defeated Farakh Ajaib and then Jamie Jones in the qualifying rounds for the 2024 UK Championship.[23][24] She then became the first female player to register three wins at a ranking event by beating Scott Donaldson in the next round in a match which went to a final frame decider.[5][4][6] Bai lost in the fourth round to Jack Lisowski 6‍–‍1, falling just short of making the televised stages.[25][26]

Performance and rankings timeline

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World Snooker Tour

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Tournament 2023/
24 		2024/
25
Ranking[nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 3]
Ranking tournaments
Championship League A WD
Xi'an Grand Prix NH LQ
Saudi Arabia Masters NH 1R
English Open A LQ
British Open A LQ
Wuhan Open LQ LQ
Northern Ireland Open A LQ
International Championship LQ LQ
UK Championship A LQ
Shoot Out A
Scottish Open A LQ
World Grand Prix DNQ
German Masters A
Welsh Open A
World Open A
Players Championship DNQ
Tour Championship DNQ
World Championship LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters 1R A
Champion of Champions A 1R
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) 		QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
  2. ^ She was an amateur
  3. ^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking

World Women's Snooker

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Tournament[27] 2022/
23 		2023/
24 		2024/
25
Current tournaments
UK Championship A F W
US Open A A A
Australian Open A A A
Masters A A
Belgian Open A A
Albanian Open NH SF
World Championship F W
British Open W A
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) 		QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

Career finals

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Women's finals: 5 (3 titles)

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Legend
Women's World Championship (1–1)
Women's UK Championship (1–1)
Other (1–0)
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Ref.
Runner-up 1. 2023 Women's World Championship   Baipat Siripaporn (THA) 3–6 [28]
Winner 1. 2023 Women's British Open   Reanne Evans (ENG) 4–3 [29]
Runner-up 2. 2023 Women's UK Championship   Reanne Evans (ENG) 1–4 [30]
Winner 2. 2024 Women's World Championship   Nutcharut Wongharuthai (THA) 6–5 [31]
Winner 3. 2024 Women's UK Championship   Reanne Evans (ENG) 4–0 [32]

References

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  1. ^ "World Rankings". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
  2. ^ "香港女子斯诺克邀请赛：白雨露惜败肯娜获亚军" [Hong Kong Women's Snooker Invitational: Bai Yulu loses Kenna and finishes second]. Sina Sports (in Chinese). October 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Pathak, Vivek (November 7, 2019). "Arantxa win high voltage match against Aussie challenge Woods". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Record-breaking Bai one win off UK Championship". BBC Sport. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Brilliant Bai Keeps Historic Run Going". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Haigh, Phil (November 20, 2024). "Women's world champion Bai Yulu makes history with another win in UK Championship". Metro.
  7. ^ "人物 14岁斯诺克少女想当世界第1 女版丁俊晖?" (in Chinese). Sina. October 25, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  8. ^ "斯诺克世青赛落幕 赵剑波白雨露分获男女冠军" [Snooker World Youth Championship ends, Zhao Jianbo and Bai Yulu win men's and women's championships] (in Chinese). July 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  9. ^ "IBSF World U18 / U21 Snooker – China". R.I.B.S.A. April 28, 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  10. ^ Pathak, Vivek (July 13, 2019). "Zhao Jianbo and Yulu Bai are World Under-21 Champions". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  11. ^ "IBSF Snooker Championships Women – Antalya / Turkey 2019 (Knockout)". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  12. ^ "IBSF Snooker Championships Women – Antalya / Turkey 2019 – all breaks". esnooker.pl. International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  13. ^ Careem, Nazvi (October 11, 2019). "China teen Bai Yulu too young to travel alone but is already eyeing world snooker domination". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  14. ^ "England's Kenna beats China's Bai 4-1 to win Hong Kong World Masters". South China Morning Post. October 13, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  15. ^ a b "Bai Yulu". World Women's Snooker. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  16. ^ "Bai Yulu makes 127 in Thailand". World Women's Snooker. March 1, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
  17. ^ "Teenager Bai Reaches Women's Final". World Snooker. March 3, 2023. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  18. ^ Chui, Shirley (March 4, 2023). "China's wait for snooker world champion goes on as 'female Ding' Bai Yulu loses women's final". South China Morning Post.
  19. ^ "Bai Yulu". WPBSA Snooker Scores. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  20. ^ "Reanne Evans suffers agonising defeat to Bai Yulu in Women's World Snooker Championship semi-finals". Eurosport. March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  21. ^ a b c "Bai Wins First World Women's Title". World Snooker Tour. March 17, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  22. ^ Watterson, Ryan (March 14, 2024). "World Titles for Bai Yulu and Tessa Davidson in China". World Women's Snooker. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  23. ^ "China's Bai claims landmark win against Jones". BBC Sport. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  24. ^ "Bai Makes History with Win Over Jones". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  25. ^ "Lisowski Ends Bai Run". World Snooker Tour. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  26. ^ "Lisowski ends Bai's historic UK Championship bid". BBC Sport. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  27. ^ "WPBSA Snooker Scores - Player: Bai Yulu". WPBSA Snooker Scores. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  28. ^ Chui, Shirley (March 4, 2023). "China's wait for snooker world champion goes on as 'female Ding' Bai Yulu loses women's final". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  29. ^ "Victory For Bai / Evans Keeps Tour Card". World Snooker Tour. May 15, 2023. Archived from the original on May 15, 2023.
  30. ^ "Evans Wins 12th UK Title". World Snooker Tour. September 25, 2023. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023.
  31. ^ "Brilliant Bai Wins World Women's Snooker Championship in Changping". womenssnooker. March 17, 2024. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  32. ^ "Bai Claims Maiden UK Crown". womenssnooker. September 9, 2024. Retrieved September 9, 2024.
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