2010/11 Ladies Masters and UK Championship

World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association press release

THE women’s snooker season kicks off next weekend with the traditional double-header at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross.

On Saturday, it’s the £1,400 Wytech Masters. And on Sunday it’s the Paul Wood UK Championship, the first of six ranking events on the 2010/11 World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association circuit.

Reanne Evans, the six-time women’s world champion, WILL play in both events.

As a professional, Evans, the only woman on World Snooker’s Main Tour, will concede an 18-point start in each frame of the Masters.

The 24-year-old, who is on a 61-match unbeaten run on the WLBSA circuit, won both the Masters and UK titles last year. She will play in as many of this season’s events as she can.

Mark Jones and Paul Stanynought, joint owners of Midlands-based IT company Wytech, are sponsoring the Masters for the fourth year running.

Mr Jones said: “Paul and I, along with our secondary sponsors Capital City Solutions and the Q Room in Derby, are proud to be sponsoring the Wytech Masters.

“This is the fourth consecutive year of our involvement and we are proud of the event that we put on each year.

“I hope the ladies have a great time in the opening event of the season and put on some great personal performances. The day is about fun, meeting and making friends, oh, and of course snooker.”

Matches will be best of three frames in the early rounds and best of five from the quarter-finals onwards. There will be a plate competition for first and second-round losers.

Selected matches will be streamed via Ustream. More information will be found on the WLBSA and Wytech websites.

The Paul Wood UK Championship carries prize money of £900.

All matches will be best of five frames. A plate, a junior event and a handicapped seniors’ competition will be played if time permits.

A new WLBSA website (http://www.worldladiessnooker.co.uk), which has been built by Austrian billiards star Karin Wannemacher, with be unveiled at the start of the Masters.

The WLBSA is hosting six ranking events this season culminating in the World Championships in April.

WYTECH MASTERS SPONSORS

Primary sponsor: Wytech Ltd (http://www.wytech.co.uk)
Secondary sponsor: Capital City Solutions (http://www.ccsmaintenance.co.uk)
High-break sponsor: Q Room Derby (http://www.theqroom.co.uk)

2010 Wytech Ladies Masters Championship
9.30am Saturday, September 25
North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre
Derby Road
Clay Cross
S45 9AG
Tel: 01246 866364


2010 Paul Wood UK Championship

Ranking event
10am Sunday, September 26
North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre
Derby Road
Clay Cross
S45 9AG
Tel: 01246 866364

WLBSA PROVISIONAL SNOOKER RANKINGS 2010/11

Pos
Name
Town
Pts
Sponsor
1
Reanne Evans
Dudley, West Mids
455

2
Maria Catalano
Dudley, West Mids
330

3
Emma Bonney
Portsmouth
290

4
Katie Henrick
Bickley, Kent
290
180poker.com
5
Suzie Opacic
Brambridge, Hants
190
Kara Accountants
6
Eva Palmius
Isleham, Cambs
143

7
Hannah Jones
Derby
127
Wytech + The Q Room
8
Marianne Williams
Smallfield, Surrey
125

9
Jenny Poulter
Maidstone
122

10
Vicky Ashby
Hemel Hempstead
119

11
Natascha Niermann
Cambridge
110

12
Chris Sharpe
Chelmsford
106

13
Jodie Symes
Swindon
99

14
Gaye Jones
Melksham, Wilts
94

15
Martina Lumsden
Eastbourne
91

16
Naomi Clare
Ripley, Derbys
75

17
Tina Owen-Sevilton
Taunton
74

18
Jasmine Bolsover
Woking
73

19
Pam Wood
Newcastle
72

20
June Banks
Orpington, Kent
60

21
Maureen Rowland
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
46
Fine Arch Cues
22
Joanne Davies
Derby
36
Wytech
23
Jan Hughes
St Neots, Cambs
12

24
Laura Alves
Dublin
12

25
Mary Hawkes
Eaton Bray, Beds
12

26
Clare Heseldine
Broadstairs, Kent
5

27
Stacey Hancock
Burgess Hill
0

28
Georgina Holloway
Derby
0

29
Supanni Yam-Oum
Canterbury
0

30
Charlotte Holloway
Derby
0

31
Rita Holmes
Minehead
0

Wytech Masters entries:

Reanne Evans
Maria Catalano
Emma Bonney
Chris Sharpe
Hannah Jones
Eva Palmius
Joanne Davies
Jan Hughes
Jasmine Bolsover
Natascha Niermann
Naomi Clare
Maureen Rowland
Gaye Jones
Marianne Williams
Vicky Ashby
Jenny Poulter
Laura Alves
So Man Yan (Hong Kong)
Deb Burchell
Tina Owen-Sevilton


UK Championship entries:

Reanne Evans
Maria Catalano
Emma Bonney
Chris Sharpe
Hannah Jones
Eva Palmius
Naomi Clare
Maureen Rowland
Gaye Jones
Marianne Williams
Vicky Ashby
Jenny Poulter
Laura Alves
Natascha Niermann
Jan Hughes
Jasmine Bolsover
So Man Yan (Hong Kong)
Joanne Davies
Tina Owen-Sevilton


Next snooker ranking event:

2010 East Anglian Championship

Saturday, October 30
Cambridge Snooker Centre
Coldhams Road
Cambridge
CB1 3EW

More details and pictures of most of the ladies available from:

Tim Dunkley (WLBSA press office)
88 Lionheart Way
Bursledon Green
Southampton
SO31 8HN
Tel home: 02380 562647
Tel work: 01329 853513
Mobile: 07986 376114
E-Mail: timdunkleysnookerdad@hotmail.com

2010 Wytech Ladies Masters Championship
9.30am Saturday, September 25
North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre
Derby Road
Clay Cross
S45 9AG

Evans defeats Catalano in finals
Reanne Evans, the six-time women’s world snooker champion, continued her dominance of the £1,400 Wytech Masters with a 3-1 victory over Maria Catalano in this year’s final September 25.
The queen of the women’s circuit has now won all four non-ranking Masters tournaments, which are traditionally held on the eve of the new World Ladies’ Billiards and Snooker Association’s season.
In a repeat of the 2009 final, the two top seeds, both from Dudley, West Midlands, made it safely through a 20-strong field at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross.


Evans, the six-time women’s world snooker champion and pictured with Paul Wood, continued her dominance of the £1,400 Wytech Masters with a 3-1 victory over Maria Catalano in this year’s final September 25.

Maria Catalano, ranked second on the WLBSA circuit, took the first frame. Evans easily won a scrappy second and clinched the last two on the final colors. Evans said, “Maria played really well, first frame. I didn’t pot a ball.”
Catalano, 28, said, “I feel like I should have won it. Reanne nicked it off me really. I played all right. I only started practicing on Tuesday. I had a few problems with my cue. I thought I was going to get pumped first round. I was just happy to get to the final. That was a bonus for me.”
Evans, the only woman on the professional circuit, admitted she struggled to adapt to life back on club tables.
“It’s a bit different to what I’ve been used to the last few months,” said the 24-year-old. “You’re in a booth on your own instead of in a wide open club and the tables are better, tighter and faster.”
Still searching for a first win since receiving a wild card onto the Main Tour, Evans added, “There are no easy matches. You have to keep one hundred percent concentration and try your hardest. [A win] would give me that bit of extra confidence.”
Catalano, who pocketed the £100 high-break prize for a run of 56, led the praise for the popular tournament.
“It was fantastic” she said. “The set-up was phenomenal. It’s one of the best tournaments. Mark [Jones] and his team do a great job.”
Evans’ victory in the 2010 Paul Wood UK Championship September 26 extended her remarkable unbeaten run on the women’s snooker circuit to 68 matches.
In a repeat of last season’s scoreline, Evans overcame world number two Maria Catalano 3-0 in the final at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross.
It was her sixth straight UK crown and her 24th ranking title on the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association circuit.
Evans, the six-time women’s world champion from Dudley, West Midlands, posted a 42 break in the second frame and a 65 in the third.


Evans Wytech Masters champ with Mark Jones.
“I played solid,” she said. “I didn’t really give her much ammunition. She didn’t really get a chance in the balls.”
And Evans hopes the win, coupled with the previous day’s Wytech Masters title, will kick-start her bid to remain on the professional circuit.
“Hopefully, it’ll give me that bit of confidence,” she said. “Now that I’ve reminded myself how to win, I’ll take it onto the men’s tour.”
Since the start of last season, Evans and Catalano have met in seven WLBSA finals. Evans has won then all.
But Ronnie O’Sullivan reckons his cousin will eventually dethrone Evans as the undisputed queen of the green baize.
Speaking earlier this month, O’Sullivan said, “[Maria’s] a very, very good player. She just can’t seem to get the victories. She keeps getting to the finals. Reanne is a very good player so it’s no disgrace getting beat by Reanne.
“I’m sure, knowing Maria’s determination, it’s not good enough getting to the final—she wants to win these events. I’m sure it will happen for her one day soon and she’ll be the number-one player in the world.”
And “The Rocket” added that he’d be delighted if Catalano became the second member of their family to be crowned world champion. “I’d be so happy for her if she was to do that,” he said. “She’s well capable of doing it.”
Catalano’s run of 86 in her quarterfinal tie against Jenny Poulter earned her the high break prize of £50.
The WLBSA is hosting six ranking events this season culminating in the World Championships in April.

wildJONESEYE wrote:it was a surprise Maria Catalano did not get a spot in the World Open having family connections with Ronnie that would have been a story.

and not only that but id say she is undoubtedly the World no 2 woman at the moment.