Evans clinches two titles in a day

REANNE Evans continued her dominance of women’s snooker by clinching a fourth straight UK Championship title and the Wytech Masters trophy on the same day.

Left to right: billiards world champ Emma Bonney, world 8-ball pool champ Lynette Horsburgh, world snooker champ Reanne Evans.

The four-time world champion defeated Katie Henrick 3-2 in the Masters final which ended at a quarter-to-one in the morning on Sunday, September 14.

A few hours later Evans returned to the North East Derbyshire SC, Clay Cross, to defend her UK title.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 26-year-old cousin Maria Catalano took a 1-0 lead in the final, the first frame that Evans had dropped in the tournament.

“I didn’t realise, otherwise I would’ve tried harder,” laughed the 22-year-old mother-of-one from Dudley after running out a 3-1 winner. “I felt comfortable and I’ve been cueing all right.”

“She practises too much,” laughed Catalano.

World number four Catalano may have played a last snooker tournament before the world championships. She heads to the U.S. later this month to compete on the 9-ball pool circuit.

Three women world champions from three different cue sports appeared in the first ranking event of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association season.

World billiards champion Emma Bonney and world 8-ball pool champion Lynette Horsburgh both went out 3-0 to Evans.

Newcastle’s Pam Wood was back in action after being rushed to hospital the previous day and diagnosed with a kidney stone.

The 39-year-old lost on a fluked pink to World Ladies Junior champion Hannah Jones in the Plate semi-final.

The WLBSA is hosting six ranking events this season culminating in the World Championships in April.

UK Championship results (breaks):

ROUND 1: Hannah Jones bt Joanne Davies 3-1.

LAST 16: Reanne Evans (78) bt H Jones 3-0, Lynette Horsburgh (45) bt Maureen Logan 3-0, Sarah Smith bt Chris Sharpe 3-1, Emma Bonney (49) bt

Vicky Ashby 3-0, Maria Catalano (42) bt Suzie Opacic 3-0, Eva Palmius bt Marianne Williams 3-1, Gaye Jones bt Laura Alves 3-0, Katie Henrick bt Pam Wood 3-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Evans (41,42) bt Horsburgh 3-0, Bonney bt Smith 3-0, Catalano (32) bt Palmius 3-0, Henrick (32) bt G Jones 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Evans (48) bt Bonney 3-0, Catalano bt Henrick (51) 3-1.

FINAL: Evans (52, 46) bt Catalano 3-1.

 

UK Championship Plate results:

LAST 16: Pam Wood bt Joanne Davies 2-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Wood bt Laura Alves 2-0, Hannah Jones bt Maureen Logan 2-1, Suzie Opacic bt Vicky Ashby 2-0, Chris Sharpe bt Marianne Williams 2-1.

SEMI-FINALS: Jones bt Wood 2-1, Opacic bt Sharpe 2-1.

FINAL: Opacic bt Jones 2-1.

 

UK Championship Seniors results:

QUARTER-FINALS: Chris Sharpe bt Maureen Logan 1-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Eva Palmius bt Sharpe 1-0, Gaye Jones bt Laura Alves 1-0.

FINAL: Jones bt Palmius 1-0.

Picture by Mark Jones