World Women’s Snooker Rankings | Australian Open 2024

The official world women’s rankings have been updated for the third time during the 2024/25 season following victory for Mink Nutcharut at the Australian Women’s Snooker Open earlier this month.

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The WWS world rankings operate on a rolling two-year basis, with points earned during the 2024/25 season to replace those earned through the 2022/23 campaign. At this revision points from the 2022 Australian Open have been removed and those earned at the 2024 Australian Open have been added.

The total rankings points of each player are calculated from their best 14 results during the current counting period.

Mink Extends Lead

Thailand’s Mink Nutcharut remains at the head of the world rankings following her dramatic black-ball victory against second placed Ng On Yee in Sydney.

Having entered Australia with a lead of 5,500 points to Ng, the world number one has now extended her current lead to 8,125 points ahead of the final event of the calendar year next month.

Both Mink and Ng have now played 16 events during the current two-year ranking cycle. With the world rankings to be made up of a player’s best 14 counting results at any time (see our 2023 announcement), this means that the ‘worst’ two results of each player, excluding World Championships, is not counted as part of their current ranking.

For both players, this means that their points earned by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Championship are currently excluded, as well at the last 16 defeat for Mink at the 2023 British Open and a quarter-final defeat for Ng On Yee at the 2023 Belgian Open.

Intriguingly, the gap is now set to close at the turn of the year with Mink set to lose 12,375 following the Women’s Masters, compared to 7,875 points for Ng, meaning that there is all to play for at Frames next month.

The Top 10

Elsewhere in the top 10, the most significant change sees England’s Jamie Hunter drop three places to 10th position, with the points earned following her victory at the 2022 Australian Women’s Open now having fallen from the rankings.

This means that Mary Talbot, Tessa Davidson and Ploychompoo Laokiatphong each gain a place, despite not having competed in Sydney last week.

Notable Movers

There are big moves for first-time semi-finalists Narantuya Bayarsaikhan and Narucha Phoemphul following their breakthrough performances in Australia.

Mongolia’s Bayarsaikhan, who came within one pot of victory against eventual champion Mink at the last four stage, climbs seven places to a new best of 12th position and the potential to climb further with no points to defend until next year’s World Championship.

There is an even bigger gain for Thailand’s Phoemphul, after the 18-year-old achieved her strongest result on the Tour to date to jump to 26th position – a gain of 47 places.

Yee Ting Cheung of Hong Kong China continued her strong recent form with a run to a third career quarter-final to rise three places to 19th.

Of the players competing from Australia, Christine Firth (+8), Carlie Tait (+4), Joey Tohme (+2) and Kylie Bellinger (+31) also gained ground inside the top 60, while New Zealand’s Agnes Kimura is up to 47th following her first last 16 run since 2019.

Among those to drop back at this revision are those who performed well at the event in 2022, including winner Jamie Hunter (-3), runner-up Jessica Woods (-8) and semi-finalists Lilly Meldrum (-3) and Miina Tani (-42).

The WWS Tour will return next month with the Women’s Snooker Masters from 22-24 November 2024 at Frames Sports Bar, London. Entry for the event is open now via WPBSA SnookerScores.