Women's East Anglian Championship

[snookerdad]

What will Katie do next?

WORLD number three Katie Henrick heads to Cambridge Snooker Centre on Saturday hoping to defend the East Anglian Championship.

The Kent-based 27-year-old, who beat June Banks 3-1 in the final last year to claim a first ever tournament win, joins a 19-strong field at the second event of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s 2008/09 season.

Four-time world champion Reanne Evans won the first event, the UK Championship in Derbyshire last month.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s cousin Maria Catalano, who lost to Evans in the UK final, is chasing a sixth title.

Three-time world billiards champion Emma Bonney travels up from Portsmouth bidding for a second snooker title. She beat Banks 3-2 to clinch the South Coast Classic at Eastbourne in February this year.

Banks, who lost to Evans in the world championship final in May, makes a first start of the season.

Naomi Clare, from Ripley, Derbyshire, is the latest under-16 to take advantage of the free WLBSA scholarship scheme. The 14-year-old will be making her debut on the circuit.

Four other Derbyshire youngsters are also booked to appear. Ashbourne sisters Georgina, 15, and 14-year-old Charlotte Holloway will line up alongside Derby’s England internationals Hannah Jones, 12, and Joanne Davies, 15.

The WLBSA is hosting six ranking events this season culminating in the World Championships in April.

East Anglian Championship
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Cambridge Snooker Centre
Coldhams Road
Cambridge
CB1 3EW
Tel: 01223 249661


Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[Monique]

Thanks Tim ... it's nice to see so many young girls picking up the game. It would be nice however if the circuit was to develop enough to allow them to make a living on it, otherwise they are deemed to go for something else when growing up. They will never be able to compete with the boys under these conditions.
I know you are one working on that! cheers!

[wyt147]

Thanks Tim ... it's nice to see so many young girls picking up the game. It would be nice however if the circuit was to develop enough to allow them to make a living on it, otherwise they are deemed to go for something else when growing up. They will never be able to compete with the boys under these conditions.
I know you are one working on that! cheers!

Hi Monique

I totally agree with you, and Tim is getting information out there as much as he can. Keep it going mate, but what an uphill struggle he has.

I'm about to travel across to Cambridge with the family ready for tomorrow and look forward to meeting up with the girls again, espscially Naomi - who plays in Hannahs ladies county pool team - she is so excited to be playing snooker for the WLBSA that she can't seem to contain herself.

No video streaming I'm afraid as there is a change of ownership to the club and no access to the internet.

Hopefully the next event at Rushden in November will have live updates and streaming.

[snookerdad]

WLBSA East Anglian Championship results

World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association East Anglian Championship results (breaks):

PRELIMS: Pam Wood bt Hannah Jones 3-0, Emma Bonney (49, 36) bt Marianne Williams 3-0, Jenny Poulter bt Charlotte Holloway 3-1.

LAST 16: Katie Henrick bt Wood 3-0, Eva Palmius bt Jan Hughes 3-0, Martina Lumsden bt Gaye Jones 3-2, Maria Catalano bt Chris Sharpe 3-0, Bonney (32) bt June Banks (47) 3-1, Sarah Smith bt Georgina Holloway 3-0, Joanne Davies bt Naomi Clare 3-0, Reanne Evans bt Poulter 3-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Henrick (52) bt Palmius 3-0, Catalano bt Lumsden 3-2, Smith (36, 37, 36) bt Bonney 3-1, Evans (55) bt Davies 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Catalano (39, 33) bt Henrick 3-1, Evans (72, 41, 41, 32) bt Smith 3-1.

FINAL: Evans (40) bt Catalano 3-0.

JUNIORS RESULTS:

PRELIM: Hannah Jones bt Georgina Holloway 1-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Jones bt Joanne Davies 1-0, Naomi Clare bt Charlotte Holloway 1-0.

FINAL: Jones bt Clare 1-0.

SENIORS RESULTS:

PRELIMS: Eva Palmius bt Jenny Poulter 1-0, Gaye Jones bt Martina Lumsden 1-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Palmius bt Jan Hughes 1-0, Jones bt Sharpe 1-0.

FINAL: Palmius bt Jones 2-1.


Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)