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NG On Yee continued Hong Kong’s dominance of the women’s snooker circuit this season by cruising to victory in the Northern Championship.
Ng dispatched defending champion Maria Catalano 3-0 in the second-leg final at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross.
The 2009 and 2010 IBSF women’s world champion’s first ranking title on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association tour followed her compatriot Jaique Ip Wan In’s triumph in the Agnes Davies Memorial in May.
“I am very happy to have won,” declared the 21-year-old, who did not drop a frame during the tournament. “I tried my best and concentrated all day.”
And she added: “(Maria) is very good.”
Ng’s coach Wayne Griffiths, son of the 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths, said: “(Maria’s) certainly one of the best female players in the world so that was a good result for On Yee.”
Hong Kong women’s champion Yu Ching Ching was a quarter-final casualty. She was knocked out 3-0 by Ip Wan In, who had finished fourth in this year’s event.
Vicky Carter, who gave birth to son Noah six weeks ago, lost 3-0 to the eventual champion in the first round and 2-0 to Plate winner Tatjana Vasiljeva, from Latvia, in the semi-finals of the consolation competition.
Eight-time world champion Reanne Evans missed the tournament as she was attending a World Snooker coaching course in Sheffield.
Eva Palmius, from Cambridgeshire, took the Seniors title.
RESULTS (BREAKS)
PRELIMS: Jenny Poulter beat Maureen Rowland 3-0, Yu Ching Ching beat Tatjana Vasiljeva (33, 35) 3-2, Jaique Ip Wan In beat So Man Yan 3-0, Ng On Yee (44, 45) beat Vicky Carter 3-0, Natascha Niermann beat Hannah Jones 3-2.
QUARTER-FINALS: Maria Catalano (37, 50) beat Poulter 3-1, Ip Wan In beat Yu 3-0, Ng beat Tina Owen-Sevilton 3-0, Niermann beat Eva Palmius 3-0.
SEMI-FINALS: Catalano beat Ip Wan In 3-1, Ng beat Niermann 3-0.
FINAL: Ng (43) beat Catalano (37) 3-0.
SENIORS
SEMI-FINALS: Eva Palmius beat Maureen Rowland 2-0. Jenny Poulter bye.
FINAL: Palmius beat Poulter 2-0.
PLATE
PRELIM: Vicky Carter beat Maureen Rowland 2-0.
QUARTER-FINALS: Carter beat So Man Yan 2-0, Tatjana Vasiljeva beat Jenny Poulter 2-0, Yu Ching Ching beat Eva Palmius 2-0, Hannah Jones beat Tina Owen-Sevilton 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS: Vasiljeva (37) beat Carter 2-0, Yu beat Jones 2-1.
FINAL: Vasiljeva beat Yu 2-1.
Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press officer and World Snooker coach)
Ng dispatched defending champion Maria Catalano 3-0 in the second-leg final at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross.
The 2009 and 2010 IBSF women’s world champion’s first ranking title on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association tour followed her compatriot Jaique Ip Wan In’s triumph in the Agnes Davies Memorial in May.
“I am very happy to have won,” declared the 21-year-old, who did not drop a frame during the tournament. “I tried my best and concentrated all day.”
And she added: “(Maria) is very good.”
Ng’s coach Wayne Griffiths, son of the 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths, said: “(Maria’s) certainly one of the best female players in the world so that was a good result for On Yee.”
Hong Kong women’s champion Yu Ching Ching was a quarter-final casualty. She was knocked out 3-0 by Ip Wan In, who had finished fourth in this year’s event.
Vicky Carter, who gave birth to son Noah six weeks ago, lost 3-0 to the eventual champion in the first round and 2-0 to Plate winner Tatjana Vasiljeva, from Latvia, in the semi-finals of the consolation competition.
Eight-time world champion Reanne Evans missed the tournament as she was attending a World Snooker coaching course in Sheffield.
Eva Palmius, from Cambridgeshire, took the Seniors title.
RESULTS (BREAKS)
PRELIMS: Jenny Poulter beat Maureen Rowland 3-0, Yu Ching Ching beat Tatjana Vasiljeva (33, 35) 3-2, Jaique Ip Wan In beat So Man Yan 3-0, Ng On Yee (44, 45) beat Vicky Carter 3-0, Natascha Niermann beat Hannah Jones 3-2.
QUARTER-FINALS: Maria Catalano (37, 50) beat Poulter 3-1, Ip Wan In beat Yu 3-0, Ng beat Tina Owen-Sevilton 3-0, Niermann beat Eva Palmius 3-0.
SEMI-FINALS: Catalano beat Ip Wan In 3-1, Ng beat Niermann 3-0.
FINAL: Ng (43) beat Catalano (37) 3-0.
SENIORS
SEMI-FINALS: Eva Palmius beat Maureen Rowland 2-0. Jenny Poulter bye.
FINAL: Palmius beat Poulter 2-0.
PLATE
PRELIM: Vicky Carter beat Maureen Rowland 2-0.
QUARTER-FINALS: Carter beat So Man Yan 2-0, Tatjana Vasiljeva beat Jenny Poulter 2-0, Yu Ching Ching beat Eva Palmius 2-0, Hannah Jones beat Tina Owen-Sevilton 2-1.
SEMI-FINALS: Vasiljeva (37) beat Carter 2-0, Yu beat Jones 2-1.
FINAL: Vasiljeva beat Yu 2-1.
Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press officer and World Snooker coach)
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