At the Women's World Championships hosted by Sheffield Ding Junhui Snooker House, Nusatrut Wangharute won the Women's Snooker World Championship for the first time by scoring the last black ball in a dramatic way that he scored the last black ball.
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The women's World Championships were last held in June 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, when Ryan Evans won her twelfth women's World Championship title. The four-day Women's World Championship features 50 of the best women from around the world competing for the Mandy Fisher Cup.
The 22-year-old Wanghalutai's victory also made her the 13th champion in the history of the women's World Championships, and the first Thai player to win the women's World Championship. She is also the new world champion since 2015, with the exception of Evans and Wu Anyi.
With the women's World Championship winning, Wangharuthai will also become the third female player to qualify professionally after Evans and Wu Anyi, who will qualify professionally for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons.
Wonharutai won her second women's ranking at the Women's British Open last month, and then beat five men at the WWPBSA Q Tour two weeks ago to reach the quarter-finals, showing good game-standing.
With the top two seeded players Ryan Evans and Wu Anyi out of the quarter-finals on Sunday night, the competition had reached the semi-finals and had become white-hot. None of the four players in the semifinals has ever won the Women's World Championship, which also indicates that this year's Women's World Championship will surely usher in a new champion. Wendy Janes beat first-time English player Jamie Hunt 5-2 to reach the women's World Championship final for the first time, while Wangharute beat Rebecca Kenner 5-1 to reach the final with ease.
Wanghalutai, the third seed of the tournament, made a strong start to the final to lead 2-1, and before halftime, Jens pulled the score to a 2-2 draw with an 84 points. Returning from the break, Jens won the eighth set to take a 5-3 lead to take the lead and get the match point. Wangharutai, who has always idolized Mark Selby, showed a reversal temperament in the face of falling behind, forcing the match into the decider in two consecutive sets.
Both players had a chance to win in the decider, but Wangharuthai took the lead in the set. With the penalty points he got on the coffee ball, Janes scored the coffee ball, blue ball and powder ball in succession, but did not score when playing black balls on the bench, regretting leaving the black ball to Wangharuthai. And Wangharutai also seized this only opportunity, resisted the pressure and scored the black ball, and won the game.
Wangharuthai has been playing snooker since he was 10 years old and made his debut at the Women's World Championships in 2017. Participating in the women's World Championships for the first time, she scored the highest score of 90 points, showing her strength. A year later, she reached the ranking final for the first time at the British Open and then lost to Ryan Evans in the final of the Women's World Championships hosted in Thailand in 2019.
Wangharutai will start her career next season and believes she will succeed in professional racing and continue to improve herself.