Ng On Yee claimed her third Australian Ladies’s Open title after beating Mink Nutcharut 4-3 in an exhilarating last at Mounties in Sydney on Tuesday.
The Hong Kong cueist, who beforehand received the occasion in 2018 and 2023, secured the deciding body to get her fingers on the silverware as soon as once more.
Success represents Ng’s twenty fifth rating title on the World Ladies’s Snooker Tour, additional cementing her standing as one of the profitable gamers within the historical past of the ladies’s recreation.
The three-time world champion needed to work onerous for the triumph, with Nutcharut pushing her all the best way in a carefully contested title decider.
Ng made breaks of 58 and 54 to determine an early benefit, earlier than Nutcharut responded to take the third and fourth frames and draw degree.
The Thai then edged forward by successful the fifth body, leaving Ng needing to win the final two to keep away from defeat.
Ng responded in model with an outstanding break of 81 to revive parity, earlier than a contribution of 57 helped her recover from the road within the deciding body.
Her path to the title had included one other deciding-frame battle within the semi-finals, the place she recovered from two frames behind to beat Reanne Evans 4-3.
Evans had taken the opening two frames, however Ng fought again to drive a decider after which compiled a superb break of 103 to finish the comeback towards the 12-time world champion.
Nutcharut, in the meantime, booked her place within the last with a 4-1 victory over Anupama Ramachandran.
Ng had earlier crushed Jessica Woods 3-1 within the quarter-finals, whereas Nutcharut recorded a 3-0 whitewash of Narucha Phoemphul.
Subsequent up on the World Ladies’s Snooker Tour is the Ladies’s Open, which runs from October 24 to 27 in Kuala Lumpur.
2026 Australian Ladies’s Open
Chosen Outcomes
Final 16
Mink Nutcharut 3-0 Jazmin Brown
Narucha Phoemphul 3-0 Theresa Whitten
Cheung Yee Ting 3-2 Joey Tohme
Anupama Ramachandran 3-1 Lau Yuk Fan
Reanne Evans 3-0 Xuejun Alice Wu
So Man Yan 3-0 Kenny Chandra
Jessica Woods 3-0 Carlie Tait
Ng On Yee 3-0 Agnes Kimura
Quarter-Finals
Mink Nutcharut 3-0 Narucha Phoemphul
Anupama Ramachandran 3-1 Cheung Yee Ting
Reanne Evans 3-1 So Man Yan
Ng On Yee 3-1 Jessica Woods
Semi-Finals
Mink Nutcharut 4-1 Anupama Ramachandran
Ng On Yee 4-3 Reanne Evans
Closing
Ng On Yee 4-3 Mink Nutcharut
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