Reanne Evans whitewashes Mink Nutcharut 5-0 to win Women's Snooker Open in Kuala Lumpur

Reanne Evans showed she is still the player to beat in women's snooker. The 12-time world champion from England took the Niche Cues Women's Snooker Open in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, beating Thailand's Mink Nutcharut 5-0 in a one-sided final. The event ran from 24 to 27 October at Niche Premium Snooker. She turned 41 on 25 October, midway through the event, and two days later she was lifting the trophy.

World Women's Snooker (WWS) counts it as her 64th ranking title in a 24-year career. It is also her first ranking title since the 2025 Belgian Women's Open, so a run of more than a year without one is over.

A final that never got close

Evans won the opening frame, then made a 59 break to go 2-0 up. The third frame was tighter, but she edged it, and she took the fourth on the final black to lead 4-0 at the mid-session interval. After the break she closed out the whitewash in the next frame.

Mink was playing her second final in a week. At the Australian Women's Open in Sydney the week before, she lost the final 4-3 to Hong Kong's Ng On Yee, who won that title for a record third time.

Beating the world champion and the world No. 1

Evans had to beat the sport's current top names to reach the final. After coming through her group, she beat Lau Yuk Fan 3-1 in the last 16. In the quarter-finals she faced reigning world champion Panchaya Channoi of Thailand and won 3-2, taking the last two frames to get through.

Her semi-final opponent was China's Bai Yulu, the world No. 1, and Evans won it 4-1. Earlier in the week Bai had made the event's highest break, a 90, in her 3-0 quarter-final win over So Man Yan.

Mink's route to the final was harder. She beat Phakwalan Kongkaew 3-2 in the last 16 and Anupama Ramachandran 3-1 in the quarter-finals. Her semi-final against Mongolia's Narantuya Bayarsaikhan went to a deciding frame, which she won 4-3. In the quarter-finals Narantuya had knocked out Ng On Yee 3-1.

Malaysia hosts the women's tour

Fifty players from nine countries entered, including eight of the world's top 10. Fourteen of them were Malaysian. Players were split into ten groups of up to five, with group matches played over the best of three frames. The top two in each group went through to a knockout draw seeded by group results.

Three side events ran alongside the main draw:

• Under-21: Panchaya Channoi beat fellow Thai Narucha Phoemphul 2-0 for her fifth under-21 title.
• Seniors (over-40): China's Su Xiaomin beat Mongolia's Adiyadolgor Chimedvaam 2-0 for her first WWS title.
• Challenge Cup (for players knocked out before the last 16): Chu Pui Ying of Hong Kong, China beat Thailand's Thitapon Nakkaew in a deciding frame that came down to the final pink.

Three events, three different winners

This season has now had three ranking events and three different champions. Ng On Yee won in Sydney, Evans has now won in Kuala Lumpur, and both the world champion and the world No. 1 lost to Evans this week. Bai has said publicly that her goal is to become the first woman to reach the final stages of the World Championship at the Crucible.

The next stop on the tour is the Irish Women's Open in Carlow, Ireland, from 27 to 29 November.

Key takeaways

• Reanne Evans beat Mink Nutcharut 5-0 in the Women's Snooker Open final in Kuala Lumpur on 27 October.
• WWS counts it as her 64th ranking title and her first since the 2025 Belgian Women's Open.
• On her way to the final she beat world champion Panchaya Channoi 3-2 and world No. 1 Bai Yulu 4-1.
• Fourteen Malaysians were among the 50 players from nine countries.
• Bai Yulu's 90 was the highest break of the event.

FAQ

Where was the 2026 Women's Snooker Open held? At Niche Premium Snooker in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 24 to 27 October 2026.

Who did Reanne Evans beat in the final? Thailand's Mink Nutcharut, 5-0. It was Mink's second straight losing final after the Australian Women's Open.

When is the next World Women's Snooker ranking event? The Irish Women's Open in Carlow, from 27 to 29 November 2026.

Sources: World Women's Snooker, SnookerHQ, Wikipedia