Welsh legend Agnes Davies remembered

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WOMEN snooker players from around the world will pay tribute to a Welsh legend in Llanelli on Saturday.

The Terry Griffiths Matchroom hosts the Agnes Davies Memorial in honour of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s life president, who died last year aged 90.

Davies (nee Morris) was effectively the women’s professional world champion in 1949 and represented her native Wales for a staggering 60 years.

Dusting off her cue will be Janie Watkins, media manager for On Q Promotions, who said: “She was probably the greatest ambassador ladies’ snooker ever had.

“I’m proud to have called her my teammate and life-long friend. She is quite simply a legend in Wales.”

World number one Maria Catalano heads an all-star cast that includes players from England, Ireland, Wales, Latvia and Hong Kong.

Missing from the action will be eight-time world champion Reanne Evans, who is competing in World Snooker’s Q School in Sheffield

2012 Agnes Davies Memorial
(WLBSA ranking event)
10am, Saturday, May 26, 2012
Terry Griffiths Matchroom
Waunlanyrafon
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
Wales
SA15 3AA
Tel: 01554 774494

ENTRIES

Maria Catalano (Dudley, West Mids)
June Banks (Orpington, Kent)
Maureen Rowland (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear)
Tatjana Vasiljeva (Latvia)
Donna Davies (Carmarthen)
Janie Watkins (Llanelli)
Laura Alves (Dublin)
Jenny Poulter (Maidstone)
Tina Owen-Sevilton (Bridgewater, Somerset)
Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts)
Eva Palmius (Isleham, Cambs)
Jan Hughes (St Neots, Cambs)
Vicky Carter (Stevenage)
Ng On Yee (Hong Kong)
Jaique Ip Wan In (Hong Kong)
So Man Yan (Hong Kong)
Yu Ching Ching (Hong Kong)
Marianne Williams (Smallfield, Surrey)
Hannah Jones (Derby)

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[philip in china]

Will you be posting results? I am 7 hours ahead of you here but will be awaiting details especially of how the Chines women get on.

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HONG Kong’s Jaique Ip Wan In emerged victorious from a raft of women snooker stars from around the globe to claim the inaugural Agnes Davies Memorial trophy.

Ip Wan In, twice IBSF Women’s World Championship runner-up, defeated her compatriot So Man Yan 3-0 in the final at the Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli, South Wales.

The first ranking event of the 2012/13 season was dedicated to the memory of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s former life president, who died last year aged 90.

Agnes Davies (nee Morris) was effectively the women’s professional world champion in 1949 and represented her native Wales for a staggering 60 years.

Ng On Yee, the IBSF Women’s World Champion in 2009 and 2010, compiled the day’s highest break of 83 in her 3-0 last-16 victory over Derby’s Hannah Jones.

Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) won the Seniors event and Vicky Carter (Stevenage) claimed the Plate trophy.

The WLBSA thanked Terry Griffiths and his staff for hosting the event, and local referee John Pellew whose company, Western Power Distribution, donated the trophy.

RESULTS (BREAKS)

PRELIMS: June Banks beat Jenny Poulter 3-1, Gaye Jones beat Jan Hughes 3-1, Marianne Williams beat Donna Davies 3-0.

LAST-16: Banks w/o Maria Catalano, Jaique Ip Wan In beat Maureen Rowland 3-0, Yu Ching Ching w/o Janie Watkins, Tina Owen-Sevilton beat G Jones 3-1, Tatjana Vasiljeva (32) beat Vicky Carter 3-1, So Man Yan beat Laura Alves 3-0, Ng On Yee (41, 83) beat Hannah Jones 3-0, Eva Palmius beat Williams 3-2.

QUARTER-FINALS: Ip Wan In (39) beat Banks (44) 3-2, Owen-Sevilton beat Yu 3-0, So beat Vasiljeva (32, 38) 3-2, Ng (54) beat Palmius 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Ip Wan In (38) beat Owen-Sevilton 3-1, So (39, 49) beat Ng 3-2.

FINAL: Ip Wan In beat So 3-0.

SENIORS

PRELIM: Jan Hughes beat Maureen Rowland 1-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Eva Palmius beat Hughes 1-0, Laura Alves w/o June Banks, Gaye Jones beat Donna Davies 1-0, Jenny Poulter beat Marianne Williams 1-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Palmius beat Alves 1-0, Jones beat Poulter 1-0.

FINAL: Jones beat Palmius 1-0.

PLATE

PRELIM: Jenny Poulter beat Donna Davies 2-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Vicky Carter beat Poulter 2-0, Jan Hughes w/o Gaye Jones, Hannah Jones beat Maureen Rowland 2-0, Marianne Williams beat Laura Alves 2-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Carter beat Hughes 2-0, H Jones beat Williams 2-0.

FINAL: Carter beat H Jones 2-0.

ENTRIES

Maria Catalano (Dudley, West Mids)
June Banks (Orpington, Kent)
Maureen Rowland (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear)
Tatjana Vasiljeva (Latvia)
Donna Davies (Carmarthen)
Janie Watkins (Llanelli)
Laura Alves (Dublin)
Jenny Poulter (Maidstone)
Tina Owen-Sevilton (Bridgewater, Somerset)
Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts)
Eva Palmius (Isleham, Cambs)
Jan Hughes (St Neots, Cambs)
Vicky Carter (Stevenage)
Ng On Yee (Hong Kong)
Jaique Ip Wan In (Hong Kong)
So Man Yan (Hong Kong)
Yu Ching Ching (Hong Kong)
Marianne Williams (Smallfield, Surrey)
Hannah Jones (Derby)

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[philip in china]

The Chinese ladies did so well. I have been trying to find a web site for any or all of them- so far with no success. Does anybody have a link?