Women's British Open

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THE women’s snooker circuit descends on Bury St Edmunds on Saturday.

Pot Black Sports Bar is sponsoring and hosting the British Open, the third leg on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association tour.

The queens of the green baize will be in action from 10am. The format is a best-of-five straight knockout.

Defending champion and six-time women’s world champion Reanne Evans, who now plays on the professional circuit, has confirmed she will definitely play.

The 25-year-old from Dudley, West Midlands, smashed Kelly Fisher’s record of 69 consecutive winning matches at the East Anglian Championship in Cambridge last month. Her 3-0 victory over world number two Maria Catalano was her 72nd straight win on the WLBSA circuit.

Natascha Niermann, the eight-time German national champion who is now based in Cambridge, reached her first WLBSA semi-final at the East Anglian Championship and will be hoping to go one better in Bury St Edmunds.

Five-time world billiards champion Emma Bonney travels up from Portsmouth and joins Ronnie O’Sullivan’s cousin Catalano as those with the best chance of dethroning Evans.

Also in the line-up are world number five Eva Palmius, from Isleham, Cambs, and young stars Hannah Jones, 14, from Derby, the world junior champion, and ten-year-old Jasmine Bolsover from Woking.

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

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If Reanne Evans make the defending battle,I think she will succeed

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Prelim

Vicky Carter 3 v 2 Kim O'Brien

Last 16

Reanne Evans (52) 3 v 0 Vicky Carter
Natascha Niermann 3 v 1 Jenny Poulter
June Banks 3 v 0 Gaye Jones
Martina Lumsden 3 v 1 Eva Palmius
Emma Bonney 3 v 0 Chris Sharpe
Jan Hughes 3 v 2 Naomi Clare
Hannah Jones 3 v 2 Marianne Williams
Maria Catalano 2 v 3 Tina Owen-Sevilton

Quarter Final

Reanne 3 v 0 Natascha Niermann
June Banks 3 v 0 Martina Lumsden
Emma Bonney (31) 3 v 1 Jan Hughes
Hannah Jones (31, 30) 1 v 3 Tina Owen-Sevilton

Semi Final

June Banks 0 v 3 (140) Reanne Evans
Tina Owen-Sevilton 3 v 0 Emma Bonney

Final

Reanne Evans 3 v 1 Emma Bonney


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Junior Final

Hannah Jones 2 v 0 Naomi Clare


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Senior Event

Semi Final

Gaye Jones 1 v 0 Eva Palmius
Martina Lumsden 1 v 0 Marianne Williams

Final

Martina Lumsden 1 v 0 Gaye Jones

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Plate

quarter final

Kim O'Brien 1 v 2 Jenny Poulter
Gaye Jones 2 v 0 Naomi Clare

Semi Final

Marianne Williams 0 v 2 Vicky Carter
Jenny Poulter 2 v 0 Gaye Jones

Final

Vicky Carter 0 v 2 Jenny Poulter

[wyt147]

Reanne has had a 140 in the first frame of the semi final against June Banks

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All results updated above

Provisional Ranking list top 16 after British Open

1. Reanne Evans
2. Maria Catalano
3. Emma Bonney
4. Katie Henrick
5. Eva Palmius
6. Hannah Jones
7. Natascha Niermann
8. Suzie Opacic
9. Vicky Carter
10. Marianne Williams
11. Jenny Poulter
12. Tina Owen-Sevilton
13. Gaye Jones
14. Chris Sharpe
15. Martina Lumsden
16. June Banks

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REANNE Evans said she’s targetting 100 straight wins on the women’s snooker circuit after extending her record-breaking run with victory in the British Open this evening.

The undisputed world number one, who had compiled a massive 140 break in the last-four, defeated Portsmouth’s Emma Bonney 3-1 in the final.

Pot Black Sports Bar in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, hosted and sponsored the third leg of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s 2010/11 tour.

Evans, the six-time women’s world champion, has now won her last 76 WLBSA matches.

After successfully defending her British Open title, the 25-year-old from Dudley, West Midlands, said: “It was a bit scrappy and all the balls went a bit awkward. I needed a snooker in the second frame, got it, and then she potted a brilliant pink.”

But the frame turned out to be a purely a consolation for five-time world billiards champion Bonney, who was unable to halt Evans’ march towards a 26th WLBSA ranking title.

Evans matched her highest break with a 140 total clearance in a 3-0 semi-final victory over Kent’s June Banks.

WLBSA chairman Mandy Fisher said: “It was a fantastic 140. You don’t get many like that.”

Despite being virtually unbeatable on the women’s circuit, Evans is still searching for that elusive first victory on the professional circuit.

She narrowly lost 4-3 to world champion Neil Robertson in the European Players Tour Championship in Prague last week and four days later crashed out of the UK Championship 9-1 to China’s Xiao Guodong.

She said: “No matter what, all it can do is increase my confidence for the Ladies. I can only take the positives from it, because that’s all it is this season. I can’t expect much, really, just experience and enjoying it.

And she added with a laugh: “I just need that win and I’ll be alright.”

Second seed Maria Catalano was a shock last-16 casualty in the British Open, losing 3-2 to world number 14 Tina Owen-Sevilton.

Taunton’s Owen-Sevilton climbed two places after a 3-0 semi-final defeat by Bonney.

Jenny Poulter (Maidstone) accounted for Vicky Carter (Hemel Hempstead) in the Plate final. Martina Lumsden (Eastbourne) defeated Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) to claim the Seniors’ title. And Derby schoolgirl Hannah Jones, 14, eased past 16-year-old Naomi Clare (Ripley, Derbys) in the Junior final.

Evans smashed Kelly Fisher’s record of 69 consecutive winning matches at the East Anglian Championship in Cambridge last month.

It was announced this week that, from January 1, WLBSA membership will be free. Tournament entry fees will be increased slightly to cover administration costs.

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

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[Aameiel]

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