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Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by Br
Four-time world champion Mark Selby playing at a practice table during the 2012 Masters tournament
A full-size snooker table set up for a game
A sliding scoreboard, some blocks of cue-tip chalk, white chalk-board chalk and two cues
A shot using a rest, allowing the player to reach farther down the table
The World Women's Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament on the World Women's Snooker Tour. Staged 41 times since the inaugural edition in 1976, it has produced 15
Reanne Evans (left) has won a record twelve World Women's Snooker Championship titles; Ng On-yee (right) has won the title three times.
Kelly Fisher pictured in 2022) won the Championship five times. She has also won world titles in English billiards, Ten-ball pool, and Nine-ball pool.
Three-time World Women's Snooker champion Karen Corr pictured in 2009), is another former English billiards world champion. Like Allison Fisher and Kelly Fisher, she moved to the United States to compete on the pool circuit.
Mink Nutcharut was runner-up in 2025, having previously won in 2022 and reached the final in 2019 and 2024.