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Waratthanun maintain her supremacy over Yulu Bai

Waratthanun Sukritthanes of Thailand Waratthanun Sukritthanes of Thailand IBSF Media

Despite grueling hours and tough competition, World 6Red Champion Waratthanun Sukritthanes of Thailand maintains her supremacy over World Junior champion Yulu Bai of China and won the group stage match 3-2 in the World Women 6Reds Championship 2019.


Yulu had recently won the World Junior Girls Snooker Championship and here also she mesmerizing with her brilliant performance in the World 6Reds. Today in the afternoon session, she was schedule to play her group stage match against reigning World Champion Waratthanun and started with comfortable frame win 33-10.

Even in second frame, she was close to finish but Waratthanun used her experience to curtail her and levelled the match 1-1. Not only that, Waratthanun further curtailed her in third frame too and succeeded to obtain 2-1 lead.

Yulu was not keen to let that go so easy and fought back in fourth game. She won one-sided frame 55-5 to set decider against World champion.

In the deciding frame, they were equal till last colour balls and then both shown excellent safe shots. Hardly anyone was showing potable ball to other. However, at last, Yulu committed foul on blue while making it safe and then Waratthanun did the rest.

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