World Women’s Snooker president Mandy Fisher confident snooker’s gender gap is closing and 'standard improving'

World Women’s Snooker president Mandy Fisher believes snooker's gender gap is closing and hailed the incredible progress made by female players in recent years. Fisher highlighted how the sport is becoming a much more inclusive space and explained why World Snooker Tour’s decision to offer two-year tour cards to women has been a pivotal move. Ad Speaking to the BBC snooker podcast Framed, she said: «It's absolutely huge.

It's a platform. It's a learning curve. Snooker'Two life bans out of 10 not enough' – Murphy admits 'mixed feelings' on match-fixing probe09/06/2023 AT 12:00 »It has brought more players to the game because they're realising that, like [19-year-old British Open champion] Bai Yulu — she probably would have remained in China and just played from there had it not been for the fact that we were given the tour cards.

So she came to the Women's World Championship for the first time ever this year to try and win that tour card. «So it just gives fantastic opportunities, not just for women, but for minority countries that don't play snooker. It just builds snooker in each of those countries — for women as well as for men.» Reanne Evans made headlines in the sport with a stunning victory over Stuart Bingham in the Snooker Shoot Out earlier this year – the first time a woman had beaten a man in a televised ranking event.