Jasmine’s nightmare draw
THE Cuestars region welcomed the world’s best women players this week.
And our very own Jasmine Bolsover again reached the junior final.
Fareham Snooker Club hosted the Connie Gough National Championship, the fifth leg of the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association tour.
Woking starlet Jasmine had a nightmare draw. The 11-year-old lost to world number two Maria Catalano, Ronnie O’Sullivan’s cousin, 3-0 in the first round of the main competition. Catalano compiled a 74 break, the highest of the day.
And it didn’t get any easier in the Plate. She suffered a 2-0 first-round defeat by eight-time German national champion Natascha Niermann.
However, in the junior event Jasmine’s 2-0 win over Naomi Clare, 16, from Derbyshire, set up a final clash with England international Hannah Jones, 14.
World number six Jones, from Derby, won 2-0.
World number 19 Jasmine is currently eighth on the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour
The Connie Gough National Championship was won by six-time women’s world champion Reanne Evans who extended her unbeaten run on the WLBSA circuit to 84 matches.
Evans, 25, accounted for former Cuestars member Emma Bonney, from Copnor Snooker Club in Portsmouth, 3-0 in the final.
World number three Bonney admitted to cuestars.uk.com that she had chances in the first two frames and insisted she’s not prepared to roll over for the undisputed world number one.
“I do always believe I can beat her,” she said. “As whoever watches me play in practice, and who knows me, has that belief that I can.
“I’m definitely not just satisfied with getting to the final and then losing to Reanne.”
Mother-of-one Evans, from Dudley, West Midlands, heads to Bury St Edmunds next month seeking a seventh world title. Her last WLBSA defeat was on March 1, 2008. And she has won the last 19 tournaments that she has entered.
Picture by Mark Jones:
Jasmine Bolsover (left), Fareham Snooker Club owner Serena Sinanan, junior champion Hannah Jones.