The 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place in April 2001, with early rounds held at Jester's Snooker Club in Swindon, and the semi-finals and final played at the

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, England. The event was the 2001 edition of the

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, first held in

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. It was won by England's Lisa Quick, who defeated Scot

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4–2 in the final. The defending champion and top-ranked women's player Kelly Fisher lost 3–4 to Sharon Dickson in the last 16. Fisher, who had won the world championship in each of the three preceding years, made the only break of the competition, a 119 in her match against Nicola Barker. Quick, ranked fifth, had previously won only one ranking tournament, the 1999 Regal Welsh, and it was the first time that Horsburgh, ranked second, had reached the world championship final in 16 attempts. It was level at 1–1 after the first two . Quick won the third frame on the to lead 2–1, and then took the next frame by the black. Horsburgh won the fifth frame to trail by one frame at 2–3, before Quick won the match by winning the next frame on the . Quick had won the women's 1999 WEPF World Eight-ball championship in blackball and with this victory became the first person in either the women's or the men's game to win world titles in both

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and snooker. She went on to win the WEPF World Eight-ball again in June 2001, to become the first person to hold pool and snooker world titles concurrently. The competition was sponsored by cigarette company

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and attracted entrants from fourteen countries including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Scotland, Singapore, and Wales. The winner of the event won a prize of £5,000.

Prize fund

Below is the prize money awarded at the event. *Winner: £5,000 *Runner-up: £2,500 *Losing semi-finalists: £1,100 *Losing quarter-finalists: £600 *Last 16 losers: £200 *Last 32 losers: £100 *Highest break: £270

Main draw

References

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