Bai Yulu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Bai (白).

Bai Yulu
Bai in 2025
Born (2003-07-10) 10 July 2003
Weinan, China
Sport country China
Professional2024–present
Highest rankingWorld Snooker Tour: 88 (July 2025)
World Women's Snooker: 1
Current ranking 107 (as of 22 March 2026)
Best ranking finishLast 48 (2024 UK Championship)
Medal record
Women's snooker
Representing  China
World Games
2025 Chengdu Six-red singles

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.

A former world junior champion,[1][2] Bai made her women's tour debut 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, and defeated Nutcharut again to win the 2025 final, retaining her title. She became the women's world number one for the first time in January 2026, the 13th player and third Asian player to attain that position since the women's rankings began in 1983. She has claimed a total of eight ranking titles on the women's 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. At the 2024 UK Championship, 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

Bai Yulu was born in Weinan, Shaanxi. Her parents went to work in Dongguan, Guangdong when she was a child. After she started school, she moved to Dongguan to live with her parents.[8]

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
Non-ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters 1R DNQ DNQ
Champion of Champions DNQ 1R 1R
Riyadh Season Snooker Championship DNQ DNQ DNQ
Championship League A A A
Masters DNQ DNQ DNQ
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.
  1. ^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
  2. ^ She was an amateur
  3. ^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking

World Women's Snooker Tour

Tournament[34] 2022/
23 		2023/
24 		2024/
25 		2025/
26
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
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 (4–1)
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]

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 [46]
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 [47]
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 [48]
Winner 4. 2025 World Games Women's Six-red Snooker  Narucha Phoemphul (THA) 2–0 [49]

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