Bai Yulu
Chinese snooker player (born 2003)
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Bai Yulu (Chinese: 白雨露; born 10 July 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player who competes both on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the main World Snooker Tour. She is the reigning World Women's Champion and the current women's world number one.
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| Born | 10 July 2003 Weinan, China | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport country | China | ||||||||||||||
| Professional | 2024–present | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | World Snooker Tour: 88 (July 2025) World Women's Snooker: 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 104 (as of 5 May 2026) | ||||||||||||||
| Best ranking finish | Last 48 (2024 UK Championship) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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A former world junior champion,[1][2] Bai made her debut on the World Women's Snooker tour at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship, where she finished runner-up to Baipat Siripaporn. She defeated Mink Nutcharut to win the 2024 final, becoming the first World Women's Champion from mainland China. She defeated Nutcharut again in the 2025 final to retain her title, becoming the seventh multiple winner of the World Women's Championship. She is also a two-time winner of the UK Women's Snooker Championship, having claimed the title in 2024 and 2025. She reached number one in the women's world rankings for the first time in January 2026, becoming the third Asian player to attain that position. She has claimed a total of eight ranking titles on the World Women's Snooker Tour, where she has won 39 consecutive matches as of January 2026.[3]
As the reigning World Women's Champion, Bai received a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. In the 2024 UK Championship qualifiers, she became the first female player to win three matches at a professional ranking event.[4][5][6] At the 2025 International Championship, she made a 145 break, the highest ever recorded by a female player in professional competition.[7]
Early life
Career
At 15, Bai won the 2018 Asian Women's Snooker Invitational Championship in Hong Kong, defeating Ng On-yee in the final.[9] Bai won the women's 2019 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship in Qingdao with a 4–0 victory over Mink Nutcharut in the final. She celebrated her 16th birthday during the tournament.[10][11][12] She reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 IBSF Women's World Snooker Championship,[13] making the three highest breaks of the event: 91, 81 and 78.[14] Accompanied by her mother, as she was unable as a 16-year-old to travel alone, she competed in the 2019 Hong Kong World Women's Masters, where she lost 1–4 to Rebecca Kenna in the final.[15][16]
In 2023, she made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the World Women's Snooker Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.[17] She made a 127 break in her group match against Amee Kamani, the highest break in the tournament's history, surpassing Kelly Fisher's 125 at the 2003 event.[18] She defeated 12-time champion Reanne Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, but lost the final 3–6 to Baipat Siripaporn.[19][20] She won her first women's ranking title at the British Women's Open, defeating Evans 4–3 in the final.[17][21] She also captured the titles of Asian Women's Championship and IBSF World Women's Snooker Championship in the same year.
The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was the first edition of the tournament to be staged in China. After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals,[22] Bai secured her first women's world title with a 6–5 victory over Mink in the final.[23] Her 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final.[23] Winning the world women's title secured Bai a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season.[23] She also won the concurrent 2024 World Women's Under-21 Snooker Championship, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final.[24]
Bai became the first woman since Kelly Fisher in 1999 to win back-to-back matches at a ranking event when she defeated Farakh Ajaib and then Jamie Jones in the qualifying rounds for the 2024 UK Championship.[25][26] She then became the first female player to register three wins at a ranking event by beating Scott Donaldson in the next round in a match which went to a final frame decider.[5][4][6] Bai lost in the fourth round to Jack Lisowski 6–1, falling just short of making the televised stages.[27][28]
At the 2025 World Women's Snooker Championship, Bai won her second consecutive world title. She defeated Mink 6–4 in the final, and became the seventh woman to win multiple world titles.[29] In August, Bai competed at the World Games in the women's six red event rather than entering the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.[30] She won the event by defeating Narucha Phoemphul of Thailand 2–0 in the final.[31][32]
In January 2026, she won the WSF Women's Championship held in Sofia to reach the number one spot in the world women's rankings for the first time in her career.[33]
Performance and rankings timeline
World Snooker Tour
| Tournament | 2023/ 24 |
2024/ 25 |
2025/ 26 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | 88 | ||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | A | WD | RR | ||||||
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | 1R | A | ||||||
| Wuhan Open | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| English Open | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| British Open | A | LQ | 1R | ||||||
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| International Championship | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| UK Championship | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| Shoot Out | A | 2R | 2R | ||||||
| Scottish Open | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| German Masters | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||
| Welsh Open | A | WD | LQ | ||||||
| World Open | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||
| World Championship | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Shanghai Masters | 1R | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||
| Champion of Champions | DNQ | 1R | 1R | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
World Women's Snooker Tour
| Tournament[34] | 2022/ 23 |
2023/ 24 |
2024/ 25 |
2025/ 26 | |||||
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| Current tournaments | |||||||||
| UK Championship | A | F | W | W | |||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | |||||
| Niche Cues Open | Not Held | W | |||||||
| Irish Open | Not Held | W | |||||||
| WSF Women's Championship | Not Held | F | W | ||||||
| Belgian Open | A | A | A | SF | |||||
| British Open | W | A | QF | F | |||||
| World Championship | F | W | W | ||||||
| Former tournaments | |||||||||
| Albanian Open | NH | SF | Not Held | ||||||
| Masters | A | A | SF | NH | |||||
| US Open | A | A | A | NH | |||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
Career finals
World Women's Snooker Tour
| Legend |
|---|
| Women's World Championship (2–1) |
| Women's UK Championship (2–1) |
| Others (4–2) |
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 2023 | Women's World Championship |  Baipat Siripaporn (THA) |
3–6 | [35] |
| Winner | 1. | 2023 | Women's British Open |  Reanne Evans (ENG) |
4–3 | [36] |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2023 | Women's UK Championship | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
1–4 | [37] |
| Winner | 2. | 2024 | Women's World Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
6–5 | [38] |
| Winner | 3. | 2024 | Women's UK Championship | Reanne Evans (ENG) |
4–0 | [39] |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2025 | WSF Women’s Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
3–4 | [40] |
| Winner | 4. | 2025 | Women's World Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
6–4 | [41] |
| Winner | 5. | 2025 | Women's UK Championship |  Ng On-yee (HKG) |
4–2 | [42] |
| Winner | 6. | 2025 | Niche Cues Women’s Open | Ng On-yee (HKG) |
5–1 | [43] |
| Winner | 7. | 2025 | Irish Women’s Open | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
4–2 | [44] |
| Winner | 8. | 2026 | WSF Women’s Championship | Ng On-yee (HKG) |
4–0 | [45] |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2026 | Women's British Open | Ng On-yee (HKG) |
2–4 | [46] |
Amateur Events
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 2018 | IBSF World Under-21 Women's Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
2–4 | [47] |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2019 | ACBS Asian Women's Championship | Ng On-yee (HKG) |
2–3 | |
| Winner | 1. | 2019 | IBSF World Under-21 Women's Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) |
4–0 | [48] |
| Winner | 2. | 2023 | ACBS Asian Women's Championship | Panchaya Channoi (THA) |
3–0 | |
| Winner | 3. | 2023 | IBSF Women's World Championship | Ng On-yee (HKG) |
4–0 | [49] |
| Winner | 4. | 2025 | World Games Women's Six-red Snooker | Narucha Phoemphul (THA) |
2–0 | [50] |
