Waratthanun Sukritthanes (; born 5 December 1993) is a

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player from

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. She was the 2018 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's Champion, and was the runner-up in 2017.

Biography

Sukritthanes reached the 2017 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's final, losing 2–5 to

Wendy Jans Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ...

, who won the tournament for the sixth consecutive time (and seventh overall). Sukritthanes won all of her four group matches 3–0, then beat

Arantxa Sanchis Arantxa Sanchis is a female professional English billiards and snooker player from India. She won a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the inaugural IBSF World 6-Red Snooker and Team Snooker ...

4–2 and

Nutcharut Wongharuthai Nutcharut Wongharuthai (, ; born 7 November 1999), better known as Mink Nutcharut, is a Thai professional snooker player who is the reigning World Women's Snooker Champion. She and Neil Robertson are also the reigning World Mixed Doubles champio ...

4–0 to reach the final, where she lost the first two to Jans before levelling at 2–2 Jans then took three frames in a row to win the title. In the 2018 ISBF Championship, Sukritthanes again came through the group stage without conceding a frame, winning her three matches 3–0, and topping the qualifying table ahead of

Ng On-yee Ng On-yee (; born 17 November 1990) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player who has won three IBSF World Snooker Championships and three World Women's Snooker world championships. She held the number one position in the World Women's Sno ...

, the only other player not to have lost a frame. She then won past Arantxa Sanchis 4–2,

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4–0 and Amee Kamani 4–2 to set up a rematch of the previous year's final against

. In the final, Sukritthanes won the first frame. Jans then won the next two before Sukritthanes took four in a row, with breaks of 30 and 56 to win the final frame, and thereby the match and tournament. She competed in the

2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games ( tk, Ýapyk binalarda we söweş sungaty boýunça V Aziýa oýunlary/Япык биналарда ве сөвеш сунгаты боюнча V Азия оюнлары), which is also counted as the 5 ...

6-reds competition, winning silver after losing to

in the final. From 2017 to 2019, Sukritthanes reached the quarter finals of the World Women's Snooker Championship each year. In both 2017 and 2018, she won all of her qualifying group matches. In the quarter-finals, she lost 3–4 to eventual champion

in 2017, and 2–4 to

Rebecca Kenna Rebecca Kenna (' Granger; born 11 January 1989) is an English professional snooker player from Keighley. She competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour, through which she also earned a tour card for the professional World Snooker Tour. She was run ...

in 2018. In 2019 it was

Reanne Evans Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the professional World Snooker Tour. She is the number one ranked player on the women's tour, and regularly featur ...

who beat Sukritthanes 4–2 in the last eight. Evans went on to win her twelfth title. In 2018 she was a semi-finalist in both the World Women's 10-Red Championship, winning three matches 3–0 before losing 1–3 to

, and the 6-red championship, where

beat her 3–2. Sukritthanes went a stage further in the 2019 6-reds tournament, but again lost to On-yee, this time 3–1, in the final. In June 2019, she partnered Baipat Siripaporn to win the first Women's Snooker World Cup. She began the 2019–20 season ranked 15th.

Titles and achievements

* 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship semi-finalist *2017 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's Runner-up *2017 World Women's Snooker Championship quarter-finalist *

6-red snooker silver medal *2018 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's Champion *2018 World Women's Snooker Championship quarter-finalist *2018 World Women's 6-Red Championship semi-finalist *2018 World Women's 10-Red Championship semi-finalist *2019 World Women's 10-Red Championship semi-finalist *2019 World Women's Snooker Championship quarter-finalist *2019 Women's Snooker World Cup Champion (with Baipat Siripaporn)

References

External links

Snooker Women Final : Waratthanun Sukritthanes vs Wendy Jans
2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sukritthanes, Waratthanun Female snooker players Waratthanun Sukritthanes Living people 1993 births Waratthanun Sukritthanes Waratthanun Sukritthanes