India’s Anupama beats Yee to pocket World snooker title

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File photograph  of Anupama Ramachandran.

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India's Anupama Ramachandran held her nervus nether unit to bushed Hong Kong’s Ng On Yee to clinch the World snooker rubric successful Doha connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).

The 23-year-old Chennai miss edged retired On Yee 3-2 to go the archetypal Indian pistillate to annex the IBSF World Snooker (15-red) crown.

Anupama, who won the Asian snooker rubric past year, got fortunate towards the extremity erstwhile On Yee, a three-time champion, missed the last achromatic with the people 60-61 successful the decider.

Anupama sank the pugnacious achromatic to the bottommost left-hand pouch to laic her hands connected the title.

The Indian ace, who ousted compatriot Keerthana Pandian 3-1 successful the semifinals precocious connected Wednesday nighttime (November 12), staged a spirited rally doubly successful the best-of-five framework final.

She drew parity aft losing the archetypal frame. Down 1-2 successful the fourth, Anupama came up with a gritty 29-break nether unit to level framework scores.

In the decider, the Indian ace potted a agelong reddish to the apical right-hand pouch and snookered herself thrice. But On Yee failed to capitalise connected the offering.

Up 61-42 with conscionable 25 points connected the table, the Indian played a mediocre information connected the greenish — which was stuck to the pinkish adjacent the greenish cushion — to springiness her rival a accidental to adjacent retired the match.

Fortunately for Anupama, On Yee, who took the green, brown, bluish and pink, missed a sitter black. Anupama soon potted the achromatic to look the champion.

Results:

Women: Final: Anupama Ramachandran (Ind) bt Ng On Yee (HKC) 3-2 (51-74, 65-41, 10-71, 78-20, 68-60).

Semis: Anupama bt Keerthana Pandian (Ind) 3-1 (65-46, 78 (36) -30, 16-70, 57-9); On Yee bt So Man Yan (HKC) 3-0 (63-22, 50-32, 66-13).

Published - November 14, 2025 12:47 americium IST

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