Thai woman wins World Snooker Championship - now Mink gets crack at the men on the main tour

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Nutcharat "Mink" Wongharuthai defeated Wendy Jans 6-5

 

Thai snooker superstar Nutcharat Wongharuthai - known by her nickname of Mink - has won the Women's World Snooker Championship in Sheffield in England. 

 

Mink, 22, who is sponsored by a Bangkok snooker club, came from behind to win 6-5 against Belgian Wendy Jans on the final black.

 

Mink led 2-1 but trailed 3-5 before winning the last three frames at the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy. 

 

Mink, the work number 3 prior to the tournament, now gets a tour card for the main men's tour.

 

Beaten semi finalists Reanne Evans of the UK and Hong Kong's Ng On Yee had that privilege this year. 

 

Mink is the only female in the world with a certified 147 maximum break that she achieved in practice in March 2019.

 

Her mother was a cashier at a snooker club and her father introduced her to the game that is popular throughout the world. 

 

Mink started playing the game at age 10 and is sponsored and supported by the Hi-End Snooker Club in Sena Nikhon Soi 21, Lat Prao. 

 

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[ezzra]

Kudos to the lady winner, and accolades for THAILAND...i'm sure she deserves it, lovely game snooker is...

[OneMoreFarang]

I always wonder why sports like this are divided into women and men.

Additional strength makes no difference with snooker (at least I don't see how).

Why don't they all compete together?

[Pique Dard]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mink is the only female in the world with a certified 147 maximum break that she achieved in practice in March 2019.

i wonder! Mink should come to pattaya and compete with some of the ladies working in beer bars ????. some of them are amazing

[robblok]

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I always wonder why sports like this are divided into women and men.

Additional strength makes no difference with snooker (at least I don't see how).

Why don't they all compete together?

I agree, sports where strength makes no difference there should not be any division. 

[WHansen]

Well done Mink

[daveAustin]

Well done young lady. Quality player. 

[Virt]

1 hour ago, robblok said:

I agree, sports where strength makes no difference there should not be any division. 

Wouldn't be fair would it?

 

If the women competed in the same tournaments as the men in let's say dart and snooker, the women wouldn't win a lot of trophies/price money.

 

The sheer number of men competing in these sports would outnumber the women, and to win as much as the men would mean they have to be far superior in these sports.

Which they are not.

 

It would only lead to a very few women being in top 100, so for the most women it would mean lower price money, compared to what they make now.

For a woman like Mink it could lead to more money, but for most women it would lower their income.

 

Congrats to Mink ????????????

It's not easy playing snooker and i gave it up a long time ago.

I do enjoy a game of killer though ????

 

 

[garygooner]

Well done Mink. Love watching snooker on TV. Really hope to see her playing soon. ????

[Orinoco]

3 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

i wonder! Mink should come to pattaya and compete with some of the ladies working in beer bars ????. some of them are amazing

Yes and some are great snooker players as well.

 

[The Hammer2021]

It's great to see a story about Thailand on this forum that is not low class, sordid nonesense about death  gore and violence. WELL DONE TO THE EDITORIAL TEAM..

Edited February 15, 2022 by The Hammer2021

[BostonRob2]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I always wonder why sports like this are divided into women and men.

Additional strength makes no difference with snooker (at least I don't see how).

Why don't they all compete together?

They do. Its just that not many women have broken through yet. Maybe Mink will.

[BostonRob2]

21 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

It's great to see a story about Thailand on this forum that is not low class, sordid nonesense about death  gore and violence. WELL DONE TO THE EDITORIAL TEAM..

That's what I thought when i woke up this morning and saw the story on the BBC sports pages. So I wrote this.

Snooker is one of my favorite sports and I intend to go and interview Mink when she returns to Thailand. Her club is just around the corner from where I live. 

 

Cheers, Rooster. 

[FritsSikkink]

3 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

i wonder! Mink should come to pattaya and compete with some of the ladies working in beer bars ????. some of them are amazing

Snooker is way ore difficult than playing pool on a beer bar table.

[DaLa]

Well done MInk,  and congratulations, it's about the only way Sheffield is going to register on any sporting map.  Other than the world's oldest football club and the world's oldest football ground.

[robblok]

2 hours ago, Virt said:

Wouldn't be fair would it?

 

If the women competed in the same tournaments as the men in let's say dart and snooker, the women wouldn't win a lot of trophies/price money.

 

The sheer number of men competing in these sports would outnumber the women, and to win as much as the men would mean they have to be far superior in these sports.

Which they are not.

 

It would only lead to a very few women being in top 100, so for the most women it would mean lower price money, compared to what they make now.

For a woman like Mink it could lead to more money, but for most women it would lower their income.

 

Congrats to Mink ????????????

It's not easy playing snooker and i gave it up a long time ago.

I do enjoy a game of killer though ????

 

 

So your saying that because there are more men competing its harder for woman. I get that but the men playing there have to be exceptional too. If a game has no strenght element its fair then both need to be exceptional.

 

I do get your point though im not completely dismissing it as it certainly has merit. 

[Virt]

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

So your saying that because there are more men competing its harder for woman. I get that but the men playing there have to be exceptional too. If a game has no strenght element its fair then both need to be exceptional.

 

I do get your point though im not completely dismissing it as it certainly has merit. 

It's hard to know until the ratio is 50/50, but some women played against the men.

 

As far as i know it's possible for women to enter the mens snooker tour.

Didn't Evans and Un-Nooh participate in a few tours with the men in the last couple of years?

[robblok]

7 minutes ago, Virt said:

It's hard to know until the ratio is 50/50, but some women played against the men.

 

As far as i know it's possible for women to enter the mens snooker tour.

Didn't Evans and Un-Nooh participate in a few tours with the men in the last couple of years?

Sorry i dont know much about snooker, i hardly watch any sports prefer to exercise myself.

 

But some woman are quite strong my gf for instance is doing almost the same deadlifts and benchpress as a guy we train with. Though that guy is not really strong nor is he consistent. Running wise GF leaves me in the dust. 

[PJ71]

6 hours ago, robblok said:

I agree, sports where strength makes no difference there should not be any division. 

There's a difference in snooker, woman are generally smaller which makes them require a rest on more shots, therefore it's a disadvantage to them against generally bigger men.

 

Also for certain types of shots more power is required which some woman would not have ( although shots like this are not frequently played ).

[PJ71]

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Snooker is way ore difficult than playing pool on a beer bar table.

Yes, i agree.

 

Whilst some bar girls can play good 'shots' none of them have any idea about positional play.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai snooker superstar Nutcharat Wongharuthai - known by her nickname of Mink - has won the Women's World Snooker Championship in Sheffield in England. 

Good luck to her, to win at that levels shows talent and dedication.

[alien365]

9 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I hear ping-pong has some talented ladies too..

Joke aside, they have some decent players too but Suthasinee is the only Thai contender who can make it difficult for the Chinese and Japanese right now at the top level. 

[CharlieH]

Reported troll post removed.

[SunnyinBangrak]

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I always wonder why sports like this are divided into women and men.

Additional strength makes no difference with snooker (at least I don't see how).

Why don't they all compete together?

Quite. It is so dated. Thailand should learn from the west that there is no need for women's and men's teams. Allowing each participant to decide their own gender is of course much fairer, and it allows real and inspirational stars like swimming champion Lia Thomas to emerge who would have never seen the limelight under the old fashioned rules. Time to modernize Thailand. 

[JeffersLos]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

came from behind

Oo-er! 

 

 

 

Well done to her. ????

 

 

[onthedarkside]

Several off-topic trolling posts and replies have been removed.

 

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, PJ71 said:

There's a difference in snooker, woman are generally smaller which makes them require a rest on more shots, therefore it's a disadvantage to them against generally bigger men.

 

Also for certain types of shots more power is required which some woman would not have ( although shots like this are not frequently played ).

Very good appraisal. Players will always prefer to take a shot without using a rest whenever possible which, like you say, gives the big lads the advantage. Especially against small Asian ladies!

 

I was very impressed by the way she won this tournament. To take the game from 3-5 down to a 6-5 win on the black takes real cool nerves and lots of determination.

[DaveE13]

Well done young lady. Love snooker always played down a club in East London in the 90s. Grew up with Ronnie o' Sullivans uncles and seeing him at 12 years old clearing the table.

She going to be a big star young mink.

Edited February 15, 2022 by DaveE13

[DaveE13]

4 hours ago, BostonRob2 said:

That's what I thought when i woke up this morning and saw the story on the BBC sports pages. So I wrote this.

Snooker is one of my favorite sports and I intend to go and interview Mink when she returns to Thailand. Her club is just around the corner from where I live. 

 

Cheers, Rooster. 

Great to hear that. She a real star in the making 

[BostonRob2]

Mink with another player. Hopefully they will meet on tour next season!