# Bai Yulu

Bai Yulu (Chinese: 白雨露; born 10 July 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player who competes both on the women's tour and the main World Snooker Tour. A former world junior champion, she is the reigning women's world champion, having won the 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship. The first player from mainland China to win the women's world title, she received a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. At the 2024 UK Championship, Bai became the first female player to win three matches at a professional ranking event.

## Early life

Bai Yulu was born in Weinan, Shaanxi. Her parents went to work in Dongguan, Guangdong when she was a child. After she started school, she moved to Dongguan to live with her parents.

## Career

Bai won the women's 2019 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship in Qingdao with a 4–0 victory over Mink Nutcharut in the final. She celebrated her 16th birthday during the tournament. She reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 IBSF Women's World Snooker Championship, making the three highest breaks of the event: 91, 81 and 78. Accompanied by her mother, as she was unable as a 16-year-old to travel alone, she competed in the 2019 Hong Kong World Women's Masters, where she lost 1–4 to Rebecca Kenna in the final.
She made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship in Bangkok, Thailand. She made a 127 break in her group match against Amee Kamani, the highest break in the tournament's history, surpassing Kelly Fisher's 125 at the 2003 event. She defeated 12-time champion Reanne Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, but lost the final 3–6 to Baipat Siripaporn. She won her first women's ranking title at the 2023 British Women's Open, defeating Evans 4–3 in the final.
The 2024 World Women's Snooker Championship was the first edition of the tournament to be staged in China. After coming from 0–3 behind to defeat Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals, Bai secured her first women's world title with a 6–5 victory over Mink in the final. Her 122 break in the final was the highest of the tournament and the highest ever made in a women's world final. Winning the world women's title secured Bai a two-year tour card to the main professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2024–25 snooker season. She also won the concurrent 2024 World Women's Under-21 Snooker Championship, defeating Narucha Phoemphul 3–0 in the final.
Bai became the first woman since Kelly Fisher in 1999 to win back-to-back matches at a ranking event when she defeated Farakh Ajaib and then Jamie Jones in the qualifying rounds for the 2024 UK Championship. She then became the first female player to register three wins at a ranking event by beating Scott Donaldson in the next round in a match which went to a final frame decider. Bai lost in the fourth round to Jack Lisowski 6‍–‍1, falling just short of making the televised stages.

## Performance and rankings timeline
### World Snooker Tour

| Tournament | 2023/ 24 | 2024/ 25 |
| Ranking | | |
| Ranking tournaments |||
| Championship League | A | WD |
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | LQ |
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | 1R |
| English Open | A | LQ |
| British Open | A | LQ |
| Wuhan Open | LQ | LQ |
| Northern Ireland Open | A | LQ |
| International Championship | LQ | LQ |
| UK Championship | A | LQ |
| Shoot Out | A | 2R |
| Scottish Open | A | LQ |
| German Masters | A | LQ |
| Welsh Open | A | WD |
| World Open | A | LQ |
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ |
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ |
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ |
| World Championship | LQ | |
| Non-ranking tournaments |||
| Shanghai Masters | 1R | A |
| Champion of Champions | A | 1R |
Performance Table Legend :
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. |
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |
| R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. |
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |
* ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
* ↑ She was an amateur
* ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking

### World Women's Snooker

| Tournament | 2022/ 23 | 2023/ 24 | 2024/ 25 |
| Current tournaments ||||
| UK Championship | A | F | W |
| US Open | A | A | A |
| Australian Open | A | A | A |
| Masters | A | A | SF |
| WSF Women's Championship | Not Held | Not Held | F |
| Belgian Open | A | A | A |
| World Championship | F | W |
| British Open | W | A |
| Former tournaments ||||
| Albanian Open | NH | SF | NH |
Performance Table Legend :
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. |
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |
| R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. |
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |

## Career finals
### Women's finals: 6 (3 titles)

* Legend
* Women's World Championship (1–1)
* Women's UK Championship (1–1)
* Other (1–0)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2023 | Women's World Championship | Baipat Siripaporn (THA) | 3–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 2023 | Women's British Open | Reanne Evans (ENG) | 4–3 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2023 | Women's UK Championship | Reanne Evans (ENG) | 1–4 |
| Winner | 2. | 2024 | Women's World Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) | 6–5 |
| Winner | 3. | 2024 | Women's UK Championship | Reanne Evans (ENG) | 4–0 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2025 | World Snooker Federation Women's Championship | Mink Nutcharut (THA) | 3–4 |