Whitley Bay hosts the Maria and Reanne show

[snookerdad]

TYNE and Wear plays host to the world’s two best women snooker players on Sunday.

World number one Maria Catalano and nine-time world champion Reanne Evans will be action in the British Open at Whitley Bay Snooker Centre.

Also on the programme are a Seniors (40+) tournament, an Under-21 competition and a Plate for those not reaching the semi-finals of the main event.

The British Open, last competed for in 2010 and won by Evans, is the first of eight ranking events on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association’s £8,400 2013/14 tour.

Eden Resources - a Singapore-based company that organises seminars, events and training - is sponsoring the Masters and the World Championships to the tune of £5,000.

Cambridge Snooker Centre will host the International Ladies Billiards Championship on September 22.

Meanwhile, Hannah and her sister’s debut on the WLBSA circuit will mean twin billing for the Derby girls in Whitley Bay.

Ten-year-old Ellie Jones - who also enjoys golf, tennis and karate - will join her 17-year-old sibling in the draw that takes place at 9.15am. Play commences at 10am.

WLBSA BRITISH OPEN
Sunday, September 8.
Whitley Bay Snooker Centre
305 Whitley Road
Whitley Bay
Tyne & Wear
NE26 2HU
Telephone: 0191 447 0515
Website: www.whitleybaysnookercentre.co.uk

ENTRIES

Maria Catalano (Dudley, West Mids)
Reanne Evans (Dudley, West Mids)
Vicky Carter (Sandy, Beds)
Jenny Poulter (Maidstone)
Hannah Jones (Derby)
Maureen Rowland (Wallsend, Tyne & Wear)
Laura Alves (Dublin)
Pam Wood (Newcastle)
Ellie Jones (Derby)

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[TexasTrev]

Might have a piece of the over 40's and get to perv the young ladies aswell as a bonus

[GeordieDS]

Might have a piece of the over 40's and get to perv the young ladies aswell as a bonus

Is it not a womans over 40's tourny?

[DandyA]

Is it not a womans over 40's tourny?

well if that's the case, snookerdad may well be the only man there ... which reminds me of one of my favourite tunes from Emerson, Lake and Palmer ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsCuj_dVsY

only kidding snookerdad, I enjoy reading your posts and your enthusiasm promoting the WLBSA ...

[TexasTrev]

Is it not a womans over 40's tourny?

Will ring Paul and find out,got the impression its mixed.Is ur Julie playing?:afro:

[GeordieDS]

Will ring Paul and find out,got the impression its mixed.Is ur Julie playing?:afro:

Your going to have to borrow the wifes sunday best and have a good shave if you want to play Trev as it is women only........Julie died unfortunately.

[snookerdad]

REANNE Evans kicked off the 2013/14 women’s snooker season with victory in the British Open.

The nine-time world champion from Dudley, West Midlands, accounted for teenager Hannah Jones 4-1 in the final at Whitley Bay Snooker Centre, Tyne and Wear.

Derby ace Jones, 17, appearing in her first ranking final, took the first frame but was unable to deny 27-year-old Evans her 33rd World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association ranking title.

World number one Maria Catalano had pulled out of the event because of illness.

Earlier, Jones defeated her ten-year-old sister Ellie 2-0 in the Under-21 final.

Vicky Carter, knocked out 3-1 in the quarter-finals of the main event by Hannah Jones, triumphed in the Plate competition – defeating Maureen Rowland 2-0 in the final.

Local girl Rowland, from Wallsend, came close in her second final of the day. She took the first frame of the Seniors (40+) final on the pink but missed the black for the match in the next.

But perhaps the snooker gods were looking down on her opponent, Jenny Poulter, who ran out a 2-1 victor.

Poulter’s mum Jean had been taken ill when the pair arrived on Friday night from their home in Maidstone but insisted from her hospital bed that her daughter competed in the British Open.

The WLBSA wishes Jean a speedy recovery.

The British Open was the first of eight ranking events on the WLBSA’s £8,400 2013/14 tour.

RESULTS (BREAKS)

QUARTER-FINALS: Reanne Evans (48, 38, 62, 47) beat Maureen Rowland 3-0, Jenny Poulter beat Ellie Jones 3-0, Pam Wood beat Laura Alves 3-0, Hannah Jones beat Vicky Carter 3-1.

SEMI-FINALS (£40): Evans beat Poulter 3-0, Jones (42) beat Wood 3-0.

FINAL (£200/£90): Evans (45, 52, 31) beat Jones 4-1.

PLATE

SEMI-FINALS: Maureen Rowland beat Laura Alves 2-1, Vicky Carter (40) beat Ellie Jones 2-0.

FINAL (£15/£10): Carter beat Rowland 2-0.

SENIORS

SEMI-FINALS: Maureen Rowland beat Laura Alves 2-0, Jenny Poulter beat Pam Wood 2-0.

FINAL: Poulter beat Rowland 2-1.

UNDER-21

FINAL: Hannah Jones (36) beat Ellie Jones 2-0.

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)

[pottingpinks]

Well done to all, good to see Hannah getting to the main final and winning the U-21 as have played her a few times in local competitions in the last year or two....seem to remember staying in Whitley Bay one night myself on a tour of racecourses, think I went to a Sunderland FC match that ended 0-0, then drove to where I was staying and took a stroll in the (extremely) bracing North East seaside air before retiring to the B&B and then the next day off to a very wet and windy Kelso racecourse, then remember being sat at a traffic light stuck on red for about half an hour on some remote country road on the way back before I realised it was never gonna change, apart from that all went well!