Bai Yulu

Born	(2003-07-10) July 10, 2003 (age 20) Weinan, Shaanxi, China
Sport country	China
Professional	2024–
Highest ranking	World Women's Snooker: 8 [1]

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.

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

Career finals

Women's finals: 4 (2 titles)

Legend Women's World Championship (1–1) Women's UK Championship (0–1) Other (1–0) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Ref. Runner-up 1. 2023 Women's World Championship   Baipat Siripaporn ( THA) 3–6 [21] Winner 1. 2023 Women's British Open   Reanne Evans ( ENG) 4–3 [22] Runner-up 2. 2023 Women's UK Championship   Reanne Evans ( ENG) 1–4 [23] Winner 2. 2024 Women's World Championship   Nutcharut Wongharuthai ( THA) 6–5 [24] References ^ "World Rankings". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024. ^ "香港女子斯诺克邀请赛：白雨露惜败肯娜获亚军" [Hong Kong Women's Snooker Invitational: Bai Yulu loses Kenna and finishes second]. Sina Sports (in Chinese). October 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. ^ Pathak, Vivek (November 7, 2019). "Arantxa win high voltage match against Aussie challenge Woods". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. ^ "人物 14岁斯诺克少女想当世界第1 女版丁俊晖?" (in Chinese). Sina. October 25, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2023. ^ "斯诺克世青赛落幕 赵剑波白雨露分获男女冠军" [Snooker World Youth Championship ends, Zhao Jianbo and Bai Yulu win men's and women's championships] (in Chinese). July 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019. ^ "IBSF World U18 / U21 Snooker – China". R.I.B.S.A. April 28, 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019. ^ Pathak, Vivek (July 13, 2019). "Zhao Jianbo and Yulu Bai are World Under-21 Champions". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019. ^ "IBSF Snooker Championships Women – Antalya / Turkey 2019 (Knockout)". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 18, 2019. ^ "IBSF Snooker Championships Women – Antalya / Turkey 2019 – all breaks". esnooker.pl. International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Retrieved November 22, 2019. ^ Careem, Nazvi (October 11, 2019). "China teen Bai Yulu too young to travel alone but is already eyeing world snooker domination". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019. ^ "England's Kenna beats China's Bai 4-1 to win Hong Kong World Masters". South China Morning Post. October 13, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2024. ^ a b "Bai Yulu". World Women's Snooker. Retrieved March 17, 2024. ^ "Bai Yulu makes 127 in Thailand". World Women's Snooker. March 1, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023. ^ "Teenager Bai Reaches Women's Final". World Snooker. March 3, 2023. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023. ^ Chui, Shirley (March 4, 2023). "China's wait for snooker world champion goes on as 'female Ding' Bai Yulu loses women's final". South China Morning Post. ^ "Bai Yulu". WPBSA Snooker Scores. Retrieved May 17, 2023. ^ "Reanne Evans suffers agonising defeat to Bai Yulu in Women's World Snooker Championship semi-finals". Eurosport. March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024. ^ a b c "Bai Wins First World Women's Title". World Snooker Tour. March 17, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024. ^ Watterson, Ryan (March 14, 2024). "World Titles for Bai Yulu and Tessa Davidson in China". World Women's Snooker. Retrieved March 17, 2024. ^ "WPBSA Snooker Scores - Player: Bai Yulu". WPBSA Snooker Scores. Retrieved January 21, 2024. ^ Chui, Shirley (March 4, 2023). "China's wait for snooker world champion goes on as 'female Ding' Bai Yulu loses women's final". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023. ^ "Victory For Bai / Evans Keeps Tour Card". World Snooker Tour. May 15, 2023. Archived from the original on May 15, 2023. ^ "Evans Wins 12th UK Title". World Snooker Tour. September 25, 2023. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. ^ "Brilliant Bai Wins World Women's Snooker Championship in Changping". womenssnooker. March 17, 2024. Retrieved March 21, 2024. External links Bai Yulu at snooker.org This biographical article related to snooker is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e