2015 World Women's Snooker Championship

The event featured eight groups of four or five players each, with the top two players from each group progressing. The event was split after the group stage, with players not reaching the main knockout tournament competing in a parallel "Plate" tournament. Matches in the group stage were three . The first knockout round was best-of-five frames; the quarter-finals and semi-finals the best-of-seven, and the final was played as a best-of-11. Thirty-three players, from ten different countries, participated in the main tournament, as listed in the table below. Seventeen of the thirty-three were English. In the previous six world championships, four different players had reached the final. Reanne Evans had won the title in each of the previous ten years, from 2005 to 2014. The 2014 final had seen Evans Ng On-yee 6–0. World billiards champion Emma Bonney, runner-up in the snooker championship in 2006 and 2011, took part in her first competitive tournament of the season. Evans' loss meant she was available to compete in the Women's championship. == Prize money ==

Source: Snooker Scene magazine, June 2015 • Winner: £1,500 • Runner-up: £1,000 • Losing semi-finalists: £500 • Losing quarter-finalists: £250 • Last 16 losers: £125 == Tournament results ==

Group stage The qualifying group matches were played on 18 and 19 April 2015. Elizabeth Black was the only player not to win a frame. Evans scored the highest break of the tournament, 100, in the first frame of her match against Margaret Browne. Jessica Woods made an 85 in the second frame of her match against Evans. Last 16 The two top seeds from qualifying, Jaique Ip Wan In and Ng On-yee, both from Hong Kong, both beat their opponents 3–0. Five of the six English players that had qualified for the knockout progressed to the quarter-finals. Defending champion Reanne Evans scored a 69 break during the first frame against Irina Gorbataya, and took the next two to win 3–0. Emma Bonney was 0–2 down to Anna Prisjažņuka, but won the next three to progress into the quarter-finals. Final Bonney took an early lead, winning the first two frames. The next six frames were dominated by safety play, and were all won by On-yee, with the only break over 30, a 32, coming from On-yee in the seventh frame. On-yee won the match 6–2 to become the first Asian player to win the title. == Breaks ==

There were only eight breaks of over 50, by just three players. The highest break of the tournament was 100 by Reanne Evans, in the first frame of her match against Margaret Browne. The second-highest break was 85 by Jessica Woods in the second frame of her match against Evans. The other player to make breaks over 50 was On-yee with 83, 68, and 55. Evans compiled a 69, a 65 and a 55 as well as her . == Group stage matches ==

Results of the main draw are shown below. Players listed in bold indicate match winners. ==Related competitions==

The Plate competition was for players who did not reach the main knockout draw, and was held on 20 April 2016. It was won by Jasmine Bolsover, who also made the highest break, 48, in the first frame of her match against Sandra Bryan. Bolsover, aged 15, had been given special permission to take two days off from her GCSE schedule, and received £120 prize money as the winner. Vicky Shirley received £60 as runner-up. Bolsover had recently reached the final of the Connie Gough Memorial ranking tournament, where she lost to Reanne Evans. Plate competition winner Jasmine Bolsover also won the under-21 final, and, with Reanne Evans, the Women's Doubles final. Results of finals are shown below; prize money awarded is shown in brackets. • Seniors Final: Jenny Poulter 3–2 Sharon Kaur. (Winner £120, runner-up £60) • Under-21 Final: Jasmine Bolsover 3–2 Yana Shut (Winner £120, runner-up £60) • '''Women's Doubles Final: Reanne Evans and Jasmine Bolsover''' 3–0 Tatjana Vasiljeva and Suzie Opacic (Winners £150 each, runners-up £100 each) • Mixed Doubles Final: Reanne Evans and Michael Holt 4–1 Maria Catalano and Hammad Miah (Winners £150 each, runners-up £100 each) == References ==