2012 World Ladies Snooker Championship

The 2012 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Cambridge Snooker Centre in April 2012. The event was the 2012 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. It was won by England's Reanne Evans, who defeated Maria Catalano 5–3 in the final to win her eighth consecutive world title. Catalano won the first frame of the final on the blue, and at the interval, the players were level at 2–2. Evans took the fifth frame with a break of 50 and then won the sixth to lead 4–2. Catalano made a 48 break in reducing her deficit to 3–4, but then Evans, who had recently started playing again after three months suffering from pleurisy, took the last frame and the title.^[1][2][3][4] Evans received £400 prize money as champion.^[5]

2012 World Ladies Snooker Championship

Tournament information
Dates	April 2012
Venue	Cambridge Snooker Centre
City	Cambridge
Country	England
Organisation	World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association
Format	Round Robin, Single elimination
Winner's share	£400
Highest break	Maria Catalano (116)
Final
Champion	Reanne Evans (ENG)
Runner-up	Maria Catalano (ENG)
Score	5–3
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Twenty-four players competed in four Round Robin groups to determine the sixteen players for the knockout stages. Emma Bonney was the only player to win all fifteen frames in her group matches.^[6] The highest break of the tournament was a 116 compiled by Catalano in the first frame of her semi-final match.^[4]

Prize Fund

^[4]

• Winner: £400
• Runner-up: £225
• Semi-finals: £120
• Quarter-finals: £80
• Last 16: £40

Knockout stage

^[7] Players listed in bold indicate match winner.

	Last 16 Best of 5 frames				Quarter-finals Best of 5 frames				Semi-finals Best of 7 frames				Final Best of 9 frames
	Maria Catalano	3
	Vicky Shirley	0
					Maria Catalano	3
					Eva Palmius	1
	Eva Palmius	3
	Suzie Opacic	2
									Maria Catalano	4
									Tatjana Vasiljeva	2
	Tatjana Vasiljeva	3
	Jaique Ip	1
					Tatjana Vasiljeva	3
					Yu Ching Ching	2
	Yu Ching Ching	3
	Ng On-yee	1
													Maria Catalano	3
													Reanne Evans	5
	Reanne Evans	3
	Chitra Magimairaj	0
					Reanne Evans	3
					So Man Yan	0
	So Man Yan	3
	Natascha Niermann	1
									Reanne Evans	4
									Katie Henrick	0
	Jenny Poulter	0
	Katie Henrick	3
					Katie Henrick	3
					Emma Bonney	1
	Christine Sharpe	1
	Emma Bonney	3

Final

^[7][8]

Final: Best-of-9 frames Cambridge Snooker Centre April 2012
Reanne Evans		5–3			Maria Catalano
Frame	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Reanne Evans 40+ Breaks	39 –	75 -	70 -	25 -	66 50	63 -	54 47	60 -
Maria Catalano 40+ Breaks	73 –	42 -	54 -	70 -	8 -	33 -	57 48	38 -
Frames won (Evans first)	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	4–2	4–3	5–3
50		Highest break			48
2		40+ breaks			1
Reanne Evans wins the 2012 World Ladies Snooker Championship

References

1. "2012 World Ladies Championship". snookerscores.net. World Women's Snooker. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
2. "History". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
3. Dunkley, Tim (28 April 2012). "Miss Mozart retains her composure". Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
4. "Reanne Evans retains women's world title". Snooker Scene. Everton's News Agency. July 2012. pp. 20–21.
5. Ashton, Becky (31 May 2013). "Reanne Evans thinks women are good enough to compete at top". BBC Sport. from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
6. "2012 World Ladies Championship – Groups". snookerscores.net. World Women's Snooker. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
7. "2012 World Ladies Championship – Knockout". snookerscores.net. World Women's Snooker. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
8. "Evans triumphs". The Hindu. chennai, India. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2020 – via NewsBank.