Women’s world champ Bai Yulu wins again in UK Championship qualifying

Bai Yul has won her 2nd crippled successful UK Championship qualifying, beating erstwhile Crucible quarter-finalist Jamie Jones arsenic she continues her bid to scope the Barbican.

The women’s satellite champion picked up her archetypal triumph connected the nonrecreational circuit successful her archetypal qualifier, beating Farakh Ajaib 6-4 and has followed it up successful style.

The 21-year-old made breaks of 70, 58, 56 and 68 successful a 6-4 triumph implicit Jones, who is simply a three-time ranking semi-finalist and played astatine the Crucible arsenic precocious arsenic this year, beating Neil Robertson to get there.

Bai won the Women’s World Championship for the archetypal clip successful March, earning herself a spot connected the World Snooker Tour.

She has recovered it pugnacious going truthful far, but aft playing eventual victor Mark Williams astatine the Champion of Champions past Tuesday, she has recovered signifier successful Leicester.

The Chinese prima inactive needs to triumph 2 much matches to get to York, truthful it remains a large ask, starting with Scotland’s Scott Donaldson connected Tuesday afternoon.

The victor of that lucifer volition play either Jack Lisowski oregon Rory Thor successful the last qualifier to marque it to the Barbican.

Bai is already women’s satellite champion and has won the 2023 Women’s British Open and 2024 Women’s UK Championship, beating 12-time satellite champ Reanne Evans successful some finals.

She impressed arsenic a teen successful IBSF events, but COVID curtailed her advancement arsenic question was constricted and she lone made her debut connected the World Women’s Snooker Tour past twelvemonth astatine the Women’s World Championship, wherever she mislaid successful the final.

Since past she has rapidly enactment her stamp connected the women’s tour, wherever she looks acceptable to triumph a immense magnitude of silverware, portion she is besides present trying to marque an interaction connected the main tour.

Bai’s Women’s World Championship successful Dongguan Changping, China was hugely fashionable successful her location country, with viewing records smashed for the tournament.

World Women’s Snooker confirmed: ‘In China, the lawsuit attracted cumulative viewing figures of 175.4 million, with a highest assemblage of 300,000 via the Huya streaming platform. The full accumulated viewing clip totalled 104.7 cardinal hours.

‘This was complemented by implicit 6 cardinal unsocial viewers recorded by video-sharing level Douyin.

‘On Western platforms the lawsuit besides boasted grounds figures via the authoritative WWS Facebook page, with implicit 725,000 full views crossed the week.’