Catalano Bids For Rare Double In Woking

MARIA Catalano heads to Woking on Sunday in a bid to land back-to-back titles on the women’s snooker circuit for the first time in five years.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 29-year-old cousin joins a 19-strong field for the UK Championship, the second of six ranking events on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association (WLBSA) tour, at Woking Snooker Centre.

Last month, en route to clinching the Northern Championship at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross, Catalano ended seven-time world champion Reanne Evans’ record 90-match unbeaten run.

World number one Evans will no doubt be fired up to win the UK title for the seventh year on the spin.

Catalano last won back-to-back titles in 2006 when she claimed the Regal Ladies and the Connie Gough National.

Eleven-year-old Woking schoolgirl Jasmine Bolsover, the world number 21 and youngest girl on the tour, makes her first appearance of the season at her home club.

Making her tour debut will be Shaghayegh Sanei, known as Anna, an Iranian international studying at the University of Surrey.

In line with the WLBSA’s new policy, there will be an open draw for the UK Championship.

The WLBSA is grateful to Woking Snooker Centre for providing the venue.

UK Championship (ranking event)

10am, Sunday, October 30, 2011

Woking Snooker Centre

Kingfield Road

Woking

GU22 9AA

Tel: 01483 762754

2011 UK CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRIES

Reanne Evans (Dudley, West Mids)