Evans extends unbeaten run to 46

REANNE Evans has extended her remarkable unbeaten run on the women’s snooker circuit to 46 matches with victory in the East Anglian Championship.

East Angian champion Reanne Evans

A 3-0 win over Portsmouth’s Emma Bonney in the final at Cambridge Snooker Centre (on Saturday, October 10) wrapped up the 23-year-old’s 19th World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association (WLBSA) ranking title.

“I didn’t really give her a shot,” admitted the undisputed world number one. “I played solid; I only missed one ball.” 

The defending champion, who did not drop a frame all day, compiled a 51 in a 3-0 victory against Newcastle’s Pam Wood and eased past world number four Katie Henrick, from Kent, by the same score in the semi-final.

Since a 3-2 defeat by Maria Catalano in the Connie Gough final in Luton on March 1, 2008, Evans, from Dudley, has collected the winners’ trophy in the last ten WLBSA singles events she has entered with a record of 146 frames for and only 17 against.

However, there is a glimmer of hope for the chasing pack ahead of next month’s British Open in Newmarket.

If - and it’s a big if - the three-time IBSF world champion and five-time WLBSA world champion can find a sponsor in time, she will be in Hyderabad, India, for the 2009 IBSF World Championships.

The East Anglian Championship was the second of six ranking events on the WLBSA 2009/10 tour.

Derby schoolgirl Hannah Jones defeated eight-time German national champion Natascha Niermann 2-1 in the Plate semi-final and outgunned world number five Eva Palmius 2-1 in the final.

The 13-year-old also picked up the Junior title - accounting for Swindon’s Jodie Symes, 15, 2-0 in the final.

East Anglian junior champion and Plate winner Hannah Jones

Palmius, from Isleham, Cambs, beat Eastbourne’s Martina Lumsden 2-0 in the Seniors’ final.

Eva Palmius, East Anglian seniors' champion

RESULTS (breaks):

LAST-16: Reanne Evans bye, Pam Wood beat Eva Palmius 3-2, Katie Henrick beat Hannah Jones 3-0, Suzie Opacic beat Marianne Williams 3-1, Emma Bonney (49, 41) beat Natascha Niermann 3-0, Jodie Symes beat Martina Lumsden 3-1, Chris Sharpe beat Gaye Jones 3-0, Maria Catalano (55) beat Naomi Clare 3-0.

QUARTER-FINALS: Evans (51) beat Wood 3-0, Henrick (36, 31) beat Opacic 3-1, Bonney beat Symes 3-0, Catalano beat Sharpe 3-0.

SEMI-FINALS: Evans beat Henrick 3-0, Bonney beat Catalano 3-0.

FINAL (£200/£100): Evans beat Bonney 3-0.

PLATE

QUARTER-FINALS: Niermann beat Clare 2-0, H Jones beat Williams 2-1, G Jones beat Lumsden 2-1, Palmius bye.

SEMI-FINALS: H Jones beat Niermann 2-1, Palmius (40) beat G Jones 2-0.

FINAL: H Jones beat Palmius 2-1.

JUNIORS

ROUND ROBIN: H Jones beat Clare 1-0, Symes beat Clare 1-0.

FINAL: H Jones beat Symes 2-0.

SENIORS

SEMI-FINALS: Lumsden beat Williams 1-0, Palmius w/o G Jones.

FINAL: Palmius beat Lumsden 2-0.

Next WLBSA snooker ranking event:

2009 British Open
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Newmarket Snooker & Bowl
2-12 All Saints Road
Newmarket
CB8 8NL
Tel: 01638 560975?

Pictures by Monique Limbos

Reanne Evans with the East Anglian Championship trophy

Reanne Evans in action

Hannah Jones, East Anglian Championship Plate and Junior champion

Eva Palmius, East Anglian Championship Seniors’ champion