Bai_Yulu

Bai Yulu

Bai Yulu

Chinese snooker player


Bai Yulu (Chinese: 白雨露; born 10 July 2003) is a Chinese snooker player. A former world junior champion,[2][3] she is the reigning women's world champion, having won the 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship. The first player from mainland China to win the women's world title, she received a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. Bai is also the reigning women's Under-21 world champion.

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Early life

Bai Yulu was born in Weinan, Shaanxi. Her parents went to work in Dongguan, Guangdong when she was a child. After she started school, she moved to Dongguan to live with her parents.[4]

Career

Bai won the women's 2019 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship in Qingdao with a 4–0 victory over Mink Nutcharut in the final. She celebrated her 16th birthday during the tournament.[5][6][7] She reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 IBSF Women's World Snooker Championship,[8] making the three highest breaks of the event: 91, 81 and 78.[9] Accompanied by her mother, as she was unable as a 16-year-old to travel alone, she competed in the 2019 Hong Kong World Women's Masters, where she lost 1–4 to Rebecca Kenna in the final.[10][11]

She made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.[12] She made a 127 break in her group match against Amee Kamani, the highest break in the tournament's history, surpassing Kelly Fisher's 125 at the 2003 event.[13] She defeated 12-time champion Reanne Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, but lost the final 3–6 to Baipat Siripaporn.[14][15] She won her first women's ranking title at the 2023 British Women's Open, defeating Evans 4–3 in the final.[12][16]

The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was the first edition of the tournament to be staged in China. After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals,[17] Bai secured her first women's world title with a 6–5 victory over Mink in the final.[18] Her 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final.[18] Winning the world women's title secured Bai a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season.[18] She also won the concurrent 2024 World Women's Under-21 Snooker Championship, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final.[19]

Performance and rankings timeline

World Women's Snooker

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    Career finals

    Women's finals: 4 (2 titles)

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