Bury St Edmunds stages Greene King World Ladies Billiard and Snooker Championship 2011: Snooker news
Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk is hosting the Greene King World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Championship 2011 for the first time. The top ladies snooker players from around the world are drawn here for seven categories of the event, World Ladies Snooker Championship,
World Ladies Billiards, World Snooker & Billiards Plate Competitions, World Mixed Pairs Snooker, World Ladies Doubles, World Ladies Seniors and World Ladies Junior.
The championship is the final event of the World Ladies Billiard and Snooker Association (WLBSA) season 2010-11, running from April 8-13 at Pot Black Sports Bar, Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk. The schedule of the events is as follows:
Day 1 – Friday, April 8
World Mixed Pairs Snooker Championship
Day 2 – Saturday, April 9
Round Robin groups for the main competition excluding top 8 seeds
Day 3 – Sunday, April 10
World Ladies Junior
Day 4 – Monday, April 11
Last 16 and Quarter Final Matches and World Plate Competition
Day 5 – Tuesday, April 12
World Ladies Billiards Championship (Round robin format plus plate)
World Semi Finals & World Ladies Seniors commences
Day 6 – Wednesday, April 13
World Ladies Snooker Final, World Seniors Finals and World Ladies Doubles
Main Tour professionals, Joe Perry, Michael Holt and Martin Gould will make a guest appearance in the World Mixed Pairs Championship, on Friday. The all-time hot favourite World Ladies Champion, Reanne Evans is ready to cinch the world ladies title for a
record seventh time in a row and also to extend her unbeaten streak of 84 matches.
Some other green-baize queens from around the world who will battle for the title are, 29-year-old cousin to Ronnie O’Sullivan and World Number Two, Maria Catalano, Emma Bonney from Portsmouth, who is also looking forward for a fourth successive world billiards
title, World Number Four, Katie Henrick from Kent and Hong Kong’s 29-year-old and current IBSF women’s world champion, Ng On Yee along with compatriots Jaique Ip Wan In, Yu Ching Ching and So Man Yan.
The two-time world billiards champion, Chitra Magimairaj and Revanna Umadevi will join from India along with Latvian number one, Tatjana Vasiljeva and eight-time German national champion, Natascha Niermann from Europe. The England international champion,
Fran Calvert and two-time European champion, Kim O’Brien will represent the world of pool. World number six and just 14-year-old Derby schoolgirl, Hannah Jones is eager for a fourth consecutive World Ladies Junior title.
Following is the list of defending champions by category:
World Championship: Reanne Evans
Mixed Pairs: Tatjana Vasiljeva & Joe Perry
World Doubles: Tatjana Vasiljeva & Maureen Rowland
World Seniors: June Banks
World Juniors: Hannah Jones
World Billiards: Emma Bonney
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