Mink Nutcharut, women's world snooker champion, beats Mitchell Mann to qualify for Northern Ireland Open with first win

Women's world champion Mink Nutcharut completed a 4-2 qualifying win over Mitchell Mann to reach the last 64 of the Northern Ireland Open on Tuesday. Nutcharut finished with a run of 47 to seal the win in Wigan after world No.

71 Mann had made breaks of 54 and 50 to close to 3-2 behind at the Robin Park Leisure Centre. Ad The 22-year-old Thai woman's reward for her first professional triumph is a match with Ricky Walden or Xiao Guodong at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast with the tournament running between 16-23 October live on Eurosport.

SnookerExclusive: 'Like playing Djokovic at tennis' — O'Sullivan compares himself to star20 HOURS AGO Nutcharut's victory comes less than a fortnight after three-time women's world champion Ng On Yee completed a 4-3 win over 1997 world champion Ken Doherty in qualifying for the British Open. There was no repeat of On Yee's qualifying heroics this time as the Hong Kong player went out in qualifying after losing 4-1 to Chen Zifan, who contributed 83 and 74 in reaching the second round.

Both Nutcharut and On Yee will compete at the inaugural World Mixed Doubles tournament in Milton Keynes next month. Judd Trump will form a team with On Yee while Nutcharut and Neil Robertson combine against Ronnie O'Sullivan/Reanne Evans and Mark Selby/Rebecca Kenna for the trophy.

Former UK champion Stephen Maguire lost the first two frames to Oliver Brown in his Northern Ireland qualifier before finding some prime form to reel off four straight frames with breaks of 80, 96 and 138 enough to seal a spot in Belfast. O’Sullivan paired with Evans at World Mixed Doubles O'Sullivan set for Kleckers test in Belfast with Selby to face Evans He will meet Zak Surety, who hit two 60-plus breaks in a 4-1 win over