Bai Yulu
Bai Yulu is a Chinese professional snooker player who competes both on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the main World Snooker Tour. She is the reigning World Women's Champion and the current women's world number one.
A former world junior champion, Bai made her women's tour debut at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship, where she was runner-up to Baipat Siripaporn. The following year, she defeated Mink Nutcharut in the 2024 final to become the first player from mainland China to win the women's world title. She retained the women's world title in 2025, again defeating Nutcharut in the final. She became the women's world number one in January 2026, the 13th player and third Asian player to reach that position since the women's rankings began in 1983. She has claimed a total of eight ranking titles on the women's tour, where she has won 39 consecutive matches as of January 2026.
As the reigning World Women's Champion, Bai 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, she became the first female player to win three matches at a professional ranking event. At the 2025 International Championship, she made a 145 break, the highest ever recorded by a female player in professional competition.
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
At 15, Bai won the 2018 Asian Women's Snooker Invitational Championship in Hong Kong, defeating Ng On-yee in the final. 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 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.In 2023, she made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the 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 British Women's Open, defeating Evans 4–3 in the final. She also captured the titles of Asian Women's Championship and IBSF World Women's Snooker Championship in the same year.
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 61, falling just short of making the televised stages.
At the 2025 World Women's Snooker Championship, Bai won her second consecutive world title. She defeated Mink 64 in the final, and became the seventh woman to win multiple world titles. In August, Bai competed at the World Games in the women's six red event rather than entering the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters. She won the event by defeating Narucha Phoemphul of Thailand 2–0 in the final.
Career finals
World Women's Snooker Tour
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2023 | Women's World Championship |  Baipat Siripaporn.png" />Baipat Siripaporn|THA |