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The 2026 Q-Schools outcome

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The 2026 Q-schools concluded this weekend and here are the outcomes:

Q-School One

DAVIES, O’KANE, O’SULLIVAN AND CHEUNG EARN CARDS AT Q SCHOOL

Liam Davies, Phil O’Kane, Sean O’Sullivan and Cheung Ka Wai all successfully negotiated the Q School gauntlet to earn two-year tour cards on the final day of event one in Leicester. 

Welsh 19-year-old Davies bounced back from tour relegation last month with a 4-2 defeat of fellow ex-professional Dean Young, to secure his status for the next two years. 

Davies is one of Welsh snooker’s brightest young prospects. This was underlined in 2022, when a victory against Aaron Hill, aged 15, made him the youngest ever match winner at the World Championship. That record stood until this year when it was eclipsed by Poland’s Michal Szubarczyk. 

A 10-9 loss at the hands of Marco Fu in this year’s World Championship qualifiers temporarily ended Davies’ run as a professional. However, he quickly recovered ahead of Q School. He scored three 4-3 wins en route to today’s final round, where a break of 134 was the highlight in his 4-2 win over Young. 

Davies said: “It feels unbelievable. Some of the games this week, the way I was playing, I thought snooker might not be for me! I managed to scrape through and I played pretty well in the last two games.

“I never want to come back here. I will be honest with you. I managed to come through so hopefully I can do a bit better over the next two seasons.”

At the 14th time of asking, English 33-year-old O’Kane finally cracked the Q School code and earned a maiden tour card, beating former professional Jamie O’Neill 4-1. 

Having first tried his hand at Q School as a teenager back in 2011, it has been a long road to snooker’s top table for O’Kane. However, wins over Oliver Spooner, Zack Richardson, Daniel Womersley and Jeff Cundy earned him a crack at getting over the line today. 

Breaks of 63 and 55 helped O’Kane to victory over O’Neill today and he was understandably emotional afterwards. 

“I’m overwhelmed. I was clearing up at the end whilst holding back tears, sweating and shaking. I was an emotional wreck and it just means the world to me,” said O’Kane.

“I went to a pool tournament about eight weeks ago. I said to the owner of my club, after this you will see me in the club seven days a week and working hard. He messaged me this morning and said that everything had paid off. It is all affirmation.” 

O’Sullivan secured his return after two years away from the tour with a 4-2 win against Joshua Thomond. 

The 32-year-old looked to be over the line in the decisive frame, before being pegged back when Thomond got the snookers he needed. At the second time of asking O’Sullivan got over the line though and enjoyed a massive release of emotion as he walked out of the arena. 

O’Sullivan said: “It was even more relief after needing to pot match ball twice. I am proud to be able to get back on the tour. It has been a tough couple of years so to get back and give it another go, I’m really proud of myself.”

Hong Kong’s Cheung booked his immediate return to the circuit with a 4-1 win against Welshman Jack Bradford. 

Cheung won the biggest amateur title in the sport in 2024, beating Gao Yang 5-0 in the final of the WSF Championship. That earned him a professional berth, but he wasn’t able to maintain his place after two years. Breaks of 78, 57 and 54 this morning helped him to a momentous victory. 

Cheung said: “I’m very happy to get through after dropping off last year. I didn’t have much expectations. The tour is very tough and when you are losing every time, your confidence goes down. I’m happy that I performed well today.”

Q-School Two

Andrew Higginson, Mitchell Mann, Stuart Carrington and Gong Chenzhi successfully negotiated the final round of Q School Event Two to earn fresh two-year tour cards in Leicester.

Higginson earned a return to the circuit, after a season away, with a 4-1 win over fellow ex professional Mark Joyce. 

The Cheshire cueman, who was runner-up to Neil Robertson at the 2007 Welsh Open, dropped off the tour following the conclusion of the 2005 World Championship. 

In his 12-month hiatus, Higginson didn’t feature at all on the World Snooker Tour and competed on the Q Tour, where he finished the campaign ranked 19th. The 49-year-old fared better at Q School and beat the likes of Shaun Liu and Mark Davis en route to the final round. Breaks of 89 and 61 helped Higginson over the line to secure his tour card. 

Higginson said: “It feels great and that was a very tough match with Mark, who I’ve never beat before. This is a nice time to get my first win against him. 

“I’ve played the game for so long I just roll with the punches now. Q School is very difficult, but it is the easy part compared to staying on the tour. I need to make the two years count rather than be a yo-yo player and drop off again.”

Mann immediately responded to tour relegation by beating Allan Taylor 4-2 and preserving his professional status. 

Mann’s 25/26 season was highlighted by a run to the quarter-finals of the British Open, but that wasn’t enough to sustain his tour card. Things didn’t look good when he lost out in the opening round of event one, but a dramatic reversal of fortunes in event two mean the Englishman will be on tour next year. 

Breaks of 54, 52 and 50 helped Mann to victory today and ended Taylor’s hopes of an immediate tour return of his own. 

“I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous playing snooker. There is so much riding on it. I put everything into it and luckily for me I managed to get the result today,” said 34-year-old Mann.

“The people who really know me will know my work rate isn’t good enough. That is one thing I want to change. Another is to lose some weight and feel better in myself. Working harder is the main focus.”

Carrington defeated Israel’s Yaron Bodor 4-1 to regain his tour card following relegation last month. 

The Grimsby cueist dropped off the tour at the conclusion of the 2025 World Championship, having regained his tour spot at Q School in 2023. His bid for Q School success this year was stunted when he was unable to take the baize in event one due to a neck injury. However, he managed to recover sufficiently for event two and ran the gauntlet to reach snooker’s top tier once more. 

Carrington said: “There are so many emotions going through my body and my head. It is relief in the end. It is torture down here for everybody. You just want to get that win and I’ve done it.

“It has been a tough couple of years. I’ve been struggling with the yips and that is magnified in this pressure. With my back and neck I wasn’t sure I’d be able to play. It just happened when I was practising and up until four or five days ago I couldn’t even get down to the shot, never mind hit a ball properly. The pain is more or less gone now. I didn’t expect too much this week.”

Former WSF Junior Championship finalist Gong beat Frenchman Brian Ochoiski 4-2 to reclaim his place on tour. 

Gong, who has previously reached the last 32 of the Wuhan Open, earned a place on the circuit two years ago after his performances on the CBSA Tour. However, he failed to establish himself in the top 64 and dropped off. 

The 19-year-old never trailed during this morning’s match and a top score of 61 helped him to get over the line. 

Congratulations to all Laureates!

Other than Phil O’Kane, all these players have been pros before. Clearly, former experience with “tour conditions” is an advantage when competing in the Q-schools.

The 2026 Snooker 900 Global Championship

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The Snooker 900 Global Championship is the “youngest” of Jason Francis snooker’s brainchild. Ronnie is competing in it, and the event is already at thee semi-finals stage.

Here is the piece written by the always extremely knowledgeable David Caulfield, explaining everything you may need to know about this new concept.

How the semi-finals look at Snooker 900 Global Championship

Ronnie O’Sullivan is one of four players who are still in the hunt for glory at the semi-finals stage of the 2026 Snooker 900 Global Championship. 

The Rocket is bidding to claim silverware in consecutive weeks following his triumph at the World Seniors Championship last Sunday.

In the inaugural staging of the Snooker 900 Global Championship in Reading, O’Sullivan edged Billy Castle in a dramatic 5-4 tussle in the last of Friday’s quarter-finals.

The 50 year-old, who is one of the backers behind the emerging Snooker 900 format, was pushed all the way by the amateur competitor but eventually got over the winning line with a break of 79 in the deciding frame.

O’Sullivan will face Kyren Wilson in the last four after the 2024 world champion also survived a scare before coming through as a 5-4 winner against Pankaj Advani.

India’s Advani, who was a professional on the main tour from 2012 until 2014, led 4-3 but miscued when in with an opportunity to seal victory.

Wilson pounced to take the game to a deciding frame, which he duly won to book his spot in the semi-finals.

The other semi-final encounter on Saturday will be between Luca Brecel and Joe Perry, who each also came through close fixtures in the last eight.

Brecel beat Florian Nuessle in another deciding-frame belter while Perry orchestrated a 5-3 triumph over Shaun Murphy.

Murphy was playing in his first competitive match since losing the World Snooker Championship final to Wu Yize at the start of the month.

But it was Perry who extended his good run of form having reached the final of last week’s World Seniors Championship where he was beaten 10-4 by O’Sullivan.

A second title-deciding bout in as many weeks between the pair could be on the cards, but they must first overcome their respective hurdles in the penultimate round of the competition.

The Snooker 900 Global Championship, with a total prize fund of £100,000, is using the new variation of rules that has gained popularity over the course of the last few years.

Frames are played over just 15 minutes – or 900 seconds – with a shot clock in operation and the ball-in-hand rule enabled when there are fouls.

It has proven to be entertaining to watch, although a bit like last week’s World Seniors Championship, some have questioned the generosity of the pockets.

The semi-finals both take place on Saturday over 11 frames, with the O’Sullivan-Wilson clash at 12:00 BST and the Brecel-Perry tie at 18:00 BST.

The best-of-19 frames final is then scheduled for Sunday, with live coverage available in the UK and selected regions on Pluto TV.

Yesterday evening, after returning from Athens where I went for medical tests, that yielded reassuring results, I was able to watch and enjoy, the Wilson v Advani game. It was a good entertaining match. I always liked Pankaj, as a person and as a player. He was however terribly homesick when on the tour. Living in the UK didn’t suit him at all.

The 2026 Grand Prix – Ronnie wins on Day 2 … but the snooker world mourns a Legend

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Ronnie beat Joe O’Connor by 5-3 today to book his place in the round of 16 at the 2026 World Grand Prix. It wasn’t straightforward and, TBH, it wasn’t a high quality match. For some reason both players appeared to struggle with the conditions and were far from their break-building best. Ronnie in particular struggled badly early in the match. There was not one century in the match which is rather unusual nowadays.

Ronnie will now face Xiaoguodong in the round of 16.

As alwatys, all the detailed results are available on snooker.org.

Here are the scores for that match:

And here is the report shared by WST:

World Grand Prix 2026 Day Two Round-Up

Nine Chinese players have reached the last 16 of the World Grand Prix – a record for any ranking event – and among them is Crucible king Zhao Xintong who scored a superb 5-3 win over John Higgins on day two in Hong Kong.

Alongside Zhao in Thursday’s last-16 line up are Zhou Yuelong, Yuan Sijun, Wu Yize, Chang Bingyu, Zhang Anda, Pang Junxu, Si Jiahui and Xiao Guodong, underlining the increasing strength of Chinese players at snooker’s elite level. 

It has been a mixed season for Zhao so far – he won the invitational Riyadh Season Snooker Championship in November but in ranking events he has reached just one semi-final and is in danger of missing out on this month’s Sportsbest.io Players Championship, for the top 16 on the one-year list. But from 2-1 down today against Higgins, he stepped up to the challenge and took four of the last five frames with top breaks of 60, 121, 73. Frame eight came down to a respotted black, and a rare weak safety from Higgins gifted his opponent the chance to pot the black to a baulk corner for victory.

“Towards the end, John gave me a few relatively easier chances and I managed to take them, so I think I was quite fortunate today,” said Zhao, who now meets Mark Selby. “I just tried to play in the way I normally do and stick to the style I believe in. I have confidence in my own game, and I feel that if I can perform to my normal level and show my form, then I can beat anyone. This is my first time playing in Hong Kong, so close to home, and to be able to compete in such a big event here means a lot to me.“

Ronnie O’Sullivan moved a step closer to a first ranking title in over two years as he beat Joe O’Connor 5-3, coming from 2-0 down to win five of the next six frames with top breaks of 65, 72 and 72. 

“I don’t think a lack of sharpness is my problem because I have always played less tournaments than other players,” said O’Sullivan, who will face Xiao Guodong next. “I think my bad game is a lot worse than it used to be, and my good is not as good. That’s the reason I am not winning as much. I am probably not a very good player any more and I have to accept that. I am trying to find a way to keep playing without it driving me crazy. I posted about Novak Djokovic the other day, he is the best in any sport at managing emotions and we all try to be like him, but it’s not easy.“

Defending champion Neil Robertson was thrashed 5-1 by Jak Jones, who has only recently returned to action after being forced to take several weeks out with a broken right hand. “That’s a really big win for me,” said 2024 Crucible finalist Jones, whose top break today was 80. “The hand is still painful but it is healing well. I broke two of the bones and that’s not an injury you want as a snooker player.” 

World number one Judd Trump saw his hopes of winning back-to-back ranking titles ended by a surprise 5-2 reverse against Yuan. Trump won the German Masters in Berlin on Sunday and after flying to Hong Kong – where he lives for much of the year – he hoped to continue his hot streak, but was outplayed by world number 31 Yuan whose top break was 103. 

Yuan, who also has cause for celebration away from the table as he recently got married, said: “I was a bit nervous at the start, but once I made a century in the opening frame, I felt much more settled. I had never beaten him before, so the closer I got to winning, the stronger that desire to finally win became. Hong Kong is one of the most important events for us Chinese players, so I really hope I can keep winning.”

Si top scored with 102 in a 5-2 win over Gary Wilson while Scottish Open champion Chris Wakelin enjoyed a 5-0 whitewash of Thepchaiya Un-Nooh with a top run of 96. Ali Carter, a semi-finalist in Berlin last week, recovered a 3-1 deficit to edge out Mark Allen 5-4 win a top break of 86. Pang impressed in a 5-1 win over Shaun Murphy, firing runs of 73, 134 and 130.

The evening session began with a minute’s silence in memory of John Virgo, who sadly passed away today.

Ronnie head a great friendship with John Virgo and shared this on X:

My thoughts are with John’s family and friends in these difficult moments. I had the privilege to meet John a few times at exhibition events. He knew a lot about his sport that he loved deeply, he was friendly and very funny and he still could play a bit despite various physical issues.

I wonder if the Angels welcomed John in Paradise with his favourite question: “Where is the cue ball going?” 1… that would be fitting and I’m sure he’d love that.

  1. Those who know John will get this … ↩︎

Michal Szubarczyk shines in Doha

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Michal Szubarczyk is still only fourteen, the youngest ever professional snooker player. He has, so far, found the life on the main tour rather hard, but that was to be expected. His talent and love for the game are evident though and he proved it again earlier this week in Doha where he won the 2025 IBSF World Men’s Snooker Champion.

Congratulations Michal !

Here is the report shared on the IBSF web site:

Michal Szubarczyk Creates History as 14-Year-Old World Champion

Michal Szubarczyk Creates History as 14-Year-Old World Champion
Took the title to Europe after 16 years

Poland’s Michal Szubarczyk has etched his name into snooker history, becoming the IBSF World Men’s Snooker Champion 2025 after a commanding 5-2 victory over Qatar’s former world champion Ali Alobaidli in today’s final. At just 14 years old, Michal joins elite company, becoming only the second player of his age to win the world title, the first being China’s Yan Bingtao in 2014 in India.

This landmark triumph also ends Europe’s 16-year wait for the men’s world crown. The last world champion from Europe, Alfie Burden (UK), lifted the trophy in 2009 in India, making Michal’s achievement all the more significant for the continent.

The final began in favour of the home favourite, Ali Alobaidli, who used his experience to secure the opening frame. But once Michal settled his nerves, the match took a dramatic turn. The young Polish prodigy unleashed three consecutive breaks of 71, 51, and 53, stunning the local crowd and storming ahead 3-1.

Ali attempted to claw his way back in the fifth frame, but unforced errors and a few missed pots proved costly, allowing Michal to extend his lead to 4-1.

The sixth frame briefly revived Ali’s hopes. Michal looked set to close out the match, but an unexpected black-ball miss opened the door. Ali capitalized with precision, reducing the deficit to 2-4 and drawing a roar from the home supporters.

But champions are defined by how they respond, and Michal showed maturity well beyond his years. In the seventh frame, he adopted a measured, disciplined approach “shot by shot, ball by ball”. That focus culminated in a brilliant break of 76, sealing the frame and the championship, and crowning him World Champion at 14.

The men’s event concluded with Harvey Chandler of England and Nicolas Mortreux of France earning joint bronze as semi-finalists, capping off a fiercely competitive tournament.

For Michal Szubarczyk, this victory is not just a world title, it is the birth of a new era, and the arrival of snooker’s next global superstar.

The last time a player from mainland Europe won this title was Kurt Maflin in 2006, the last time an European player won it was Alfie Burden in 2009.

Igor Figuereido shines in Sacramento

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Igor Figuereido dominated the 2025 Pan American Championships, winning both the Open Snooker Championship and the Seniors Championship.

Here is the report shared by WPBSA

Igor Figueriedo Does the Double at 2025 Pan American Snooker Championships

Igor Figueiredo defeated Fabio Anderson Luerson 5-2 to win the 2025 Pan American Open Snooker Championship and earn a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card.

The continental success means the Brazilian will be nominated for a fourth spell among the professional ranks having first joined the  Tour in 2010.

Figueiredo was the dominant force at the Aryan Snooker Club in Sacramento, California as he won both the Open and Seniors Championship titles to earn a two-year WST tour card and qualification for the 2026 World Seniors Snooker Championship – a title he won at the iconic Crucible Theatre last year.

The 47-year-old began the event, which is organised by the Pan American Billiards & Snooker Association (PABSA), with a clean sweep of whitewash victories over fellow countryman Ricardo Bouwman Filho and American cueists Sam McGrath and Pravin Patel.

He dropped just two further frames en route to the semi-finals as he overcame Saif Ibrahim (3-0), Zia Sheik (4-1) and Jason Williams (4-1).

It was an impressive week for Brazilian snooker as the semi-final line-ups for both the Seniors and Open Championships featured all four players from the South American nation.

Three of these – Figueiredo, Luersen and Nelson Rodrigues Morreira – competed in the semi-finals of both events while they were joined by former WST professional Victor Sarkis in the Open competition.

It was Sarkis that faced Figueiredo in the last four but it was the senior man that was in dominant form as he completed yet another whitewash win to move within one victory of the title.

Luersen was his opponent in the title match after he completed a 4-2 defeat of Morreira as he looked to add to the Pan American Seniors Snooker Championship title that he had won 12 months ago.

Figueiredo proved to be too strong once again, however, as he rounded off an unforgettable week by completing a 5-2 victory to secure the title and a WST tour card.

Congratulations Igor Figueiredo!

As always, all the detailed results can be found on snooker.org

Wether Igor will actually take his tour card remains to be seen though. He didn’t “finish” his last spell on tour and went back to Brazil before his tour card “expired”, explaining that this life abroad was too hard for him and his family. This is understandable. Brazil is too far away for making it possible for Brazilian players to return home just to spend a week-end or indeed any short period of time with their loved ones. The trip is costly and very tiring because the huge time difference. He might however decide to play in the World and Seniors World Championships, as these are “one-offs” in the season and, of course, very special.

I really do hope that he will be able to play in a few events though as he’s very entertaining and (almost) always smiling.

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Some Important News about the 2025/26 Q-Tour Europe

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This was shared yesterday on WST site

WPBSA Q Tour Europe Restructure for 2025/26

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has today announced the 2025/26 WPBSA Q Tour Global, which includes a new format and increased money for the Q Tour Europe series.

The Q Tour Global is an established series of events which provides an elite pathway for talented snooker players around the world to earn their place on the World Snooker Tour.

In its second full season, Q Tour Global continued to see records broken with 711 players from 54 countries completing 1542 matches across four continents.

WPBSA Q Tour Europe

This season’s Q Tour Europe will once again comprise seven events, with five to be held in mainland Europe for the first time, and sees significant changes to the format, ranking system and prize money following player feedback.

  • Prize money more than doubled from the 2024/25 season to £30,000 per event
  • New seeding structure
  • Best-of-seven frame matches from the last 128 stage onwards
  • New points-based ranking system
  • Regular seeding cut-off dates introduced to make the seedings per event more up to date and relative to the current seasons results

The circuit will benefit from increased prize money investment with £30,000 to be contested at each of the events – more than double the prize fund from the past season.

Following player feedback, there has also been an important change to the tournament seeding structure, which will now see 64 players seeded through to the last 128 stage. Each tournament will be played under a flat draw, with the remaining players drawn at random.

All matches from the last 128 stage onwards will now be played over the best of seven frames and each event will now be played over four days.

A new points-based ranking system will replace the previously used prize money system and points will be on offer in all rounds of each event. There will also be regular seeding cut-off dates to ensure the seedings reflect the current seasons results.

As in previous seasons, the top ranked player at the end of the campaign will earn a place on the World Snooker Tour. The next 16-ranked players (to include each event champion) will qualify for the season-end Q Tour Global Playoff.

The Dates

The provisional dates for this season’s Q Tour Europe are:

All dates are provisional and subject to change.

All Q Tour Europe events in England will be held at official 147 Clubs recognised by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards.

“A great start to building for the future”

WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson said: “We are delighted to announce the new, improved WPBSA Q Tour Europe series for the 2025/26 season. We have listened to the players and consulted with the WPBSA Players Board and we believe these changes are a great start to building for the future not just in Europe but across all the Q Tour Global events.”

“As we move forward, we plan to make further improvements so that WPBSA can establish a truly global secondary tour for our sport. These changes are only the beginning!”

Event Entry

Entry for all seven Q Tour Europe events is now open via WPBSA SnookerScores. Please view each tournament for confirmation of each entry deadline.

We aim to accommodate all players who wish to enter; however, we do reserve the right to limit entries for each qualifier or to extend events subject to the number of tables available at the club and time available.

Q Tour Global

WPBSA Q Tour Global will continue to incorporate regional Q Tour series’ staged around the world as part of the continued international expansion of Q Tour.

The Q Tour Global will once again continue to include series in the Middle East, Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, alongside the CBSA China Tour.

As part of the WPBSA’s commitment to the international growth of our sport, the leading players from these Regional Q Tour events will qualify to compete at the Q Tour Global Playoff, alongside players from Q Tour Europe.

Players competing in Q Tour events outside of Europe, must be resident for a minimum six months to be eligible to play in these events.

This, in my views is great news as five of the seven events are played outside the UK. This is how it should be in the main tour as well, qualifiers included, if snooker really has ambition to be a global sport. It did however trigger negative reaction from British amateurs on social media, complaining about the costs and travels. They were “outraged” when I told them that they have been “privileged” for far too long, that this is, finally, how it should be. To this, of course, they responded that they haven’t be privileged … until I explained how the current structure of the main tour basically forces every non British player to live as expat in the UK, away from their family, which is certainly taxing mentally and emotionally, or to travel back and forth all the time, which is tiring and costly, how communication with the gouverning body is done in English, which for non-UK/Irish players is a foreign language…

I’m sure that I didn’t convince those who feel entitled … but my post was liked by a non British player and the father of another non British player, a young and quite successful one too. The said father left this comment: “It’s about time. Welcome to the world of non UK players 😀”. Exactly that!

Bai Yulu is the 2025 Women Snooker World Champion

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Bai Yulu has successfully defended her Women Snooker World Champion title.

Congratulations Bai Yulu!

Here is the report shared by WWS

Bai Defends Women’s World Title

Bai Yulu defeated Mink Nutcharut 6-4 in Changping, China to successfully defend the World Women’s Snooker Championship title on home soil.

The 21-year-old from China, who was taking part in a third consecutive World Women’s Snooker Championship final, becomes only the seventh player to lift the Mandy Fisher Trophy on multiple occasions and is the first to defend her title since Ng On Yee achieved the feat in 2018.

The two pre-tournament top seeds met in a repeat of last year’s final in a best-of-11 frame title match contest that was watched by a large crowd at the Changping Gymnasium.

The first two frames of the final were shared between the two cueists, who were each aiming to lift the most prestigious title on the World Women’s Snooker Tour for the second time in their careers.

Mink, the 2022 champion who was competing in her fourth final, managed to pull ahead as she secured a 4-2 advantage with a top break of 54.

Local favourite Bai refused to go down without a fight, however, and rallied with back-to-back frames to restore parity, before going ahead for the first time in the match by taking frame nine with a contribution of 61 to move one away from victory at 5-4.

What ultimately turned out to be the final frame of the match was one that was full of drama as it came down to the last few balls and both players spurned opportunities to win it.

There were gasps from the crowd as Bai missed the ball altogether when attempting a thin pink across the length of the table for victory, only for Mink to go in-off after potting it and looking likely to force a dramatic decider.

After taking a second to compose herself, the Chinese player fired home the pink from distance to complete a momentous victory.

Quality wise, it wasn’t a great match but we shouldn’t be too surprised. Both players wanted it badly and they were certainly feeling very tense. The match was showed on YouTube and at one point there were over 47500 persons watching it (me included 😉). There IS an interest for the women’s game, clearly.

Lewis was in the arena and wrote on social media that, to his estimations, about 700 fans were watching at the venue. Not bad!