Headlines over the weekend principally centered on Xiao Guodong, however silverware was gained on a few the opposite massive excursions as properly.
On Saturday, China’s Xiao beat Gary Wilson 10-9 to seize the Wuhan Open title for the second successive season.
It delivered to a conclusion the third rating occasion of the 2025/26 snooker marketing campaign, with the 36 year-old pocketing a cool £140,000 sum and leapfrogging his option to a career-high of quantity eight on this planet rankings.
Elsewhere, although, there have been a few occasions on World Girls’s Snooker Tour and the beginner Q Tour which additionally reached their climaxes on Sunday.
Bai Yulu secures UK Championship triumph
Xiao wasn’t the one participant from China to efficiently defend a match, along with his countrywoman Bai Yulu doing likewise on the UK Girls’s Snooker Championship.
Curiously, each Xiao and Bai opted to skip the latest Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters in favour of representing their nation on the World Video games.
The pair gave up the chance of doubtless successful large sums of cash in Jeddah, however their journey to Chengdu for the World Video games proved to be value it as they every took residence a gold medal.
Whereas Xiao carried ahead the boldness from that victory into his week in Wuhan, Bai did the identical throughout the weekend on the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds.
The reigning girls’s world champion comfortably topped her round-robin group with an ideal document and subsequently reached the final 4 with knockout victories over Deborah Fladgate and Tessa Davidson.
A 4-2 defeat of Rebecca Kenna offered her with a spot within the remaining the place she recorded the identical scoreline in overcoming Ng On Yee – compiling a superb 102 break within the second body.
Victory for the 22 year-old takes her tally of rating titles on the World Girls’s Snooker Tour to 5 – a determine that appears set to develop quickly within the years to return.
2025 UK Girls’s Championship
Chosen Outcomes
Quarter-Finals
Mink Nutcharut 3-1 Anna Prisjaznuka
Ng On Yee 3-1 Baipat Siripaporn
Rebecca Kenna 3-2 Narucha Phoemphul
Bai Yulu 3-1 Tessa Davidson
Semi-Finals
Ng On Yee 4-2 Mink Nutcharut
Bai Yulu 4-2 Rebecca Kenna
Remaining
Bai Yulu 4-2 Ng On Yee
Hammad Miah captures Q Tour Occasion 1
In the meantime, the European swing of Q Tour bought underneath manner with Occasion 1 going down on the SnookerHallen in Stockholm.
Hammad Miah bought off to the proper begin on the feeder circuit by beating Patrick Whelan 4-2 to say the £6,000 prime prize.
Miah is taking part on this model of the Q Tour for the primary time after struggling relegation from the World Snooker Tour on the finish of final season.
The Englishman, who might be hoping to bounce again instantly, strikes straight to the highest of the Q Tour Order of Benefit following his success.
Like prior to now, the top-ranked participant on the finish of the European Q Tour sequence will obtain a recent two-year card to compete on the primary tour.
Three further skilled tickets might be up for grabs by way of the Q Tour playoffs, that includes gamers from the European Order of Benefit and champions from the assorted world Q Tour occasions.
Q Tour Occasion 1
Chosen Outcomes
Quarter-Finals
Hammad Miah 4-1 Alfie Burden
Peter Traces 4-0 Craig Steadman
Mykhailo Larkov 4-1 Barry Pinches
Patrick Whelan 4-3 Oliver Sykes
Semi-Finals
Hammad Miah 4-2 Peter Traces
Patrick Whelan 4-2 Mykhailo Larkov
Remaining
Hammad Miah 4-2 Patrick Whelan
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