Katrina Wan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wan (溫).
Katrina Wan
Born (1988-03-08) 8 March 1988 (age 36)
Hong Kong
Sport country Hong Kong
Highest rankingWorld Women's Snooker: 5[1]
Medal record
Women's Six-red snooker
Representing  Hong Kong
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Ashgabat Single

Katrina Wan Ka Kai (Chinese: 溫家琪; born 8 March 1988)[2] is a snooker player from Hong Kong. She was runner-up in the 2018 Australian Women's Open.

Katrina Wan
Traditional Chinese溫家琪
Simplified Chinese温家琪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWēn Jiāqí
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWan1 Gaa1 Kei4
IPA[wɐn˥ ka˥.kʰej˩]

Biography

Wan started playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2013. She reached her highest ranking to date, 5th, in October 2018.[1]

At the 2016 WLBS World Ladies Pairs Championship, Wan and Ng On-yee, beat Maria Catalano and Tatjana Vasiljeva 4–1.[3]

Another doubles success for Wan was partnering Sanderson Lam to win the Festival of Women's Snooker 10-Red mixed pairs’ tournament in 2017.[4]

Wan was runner-up at the 2018 Australian Women's Open. She topped her qualifying group by winning all five matches 3–0, then saw off Janine Rollings 3–0 in the last 16, and Jessica Woods 3–1 in the quarter final. In the semi-final, Wan beat 11-times world champion Reanne Evans 4–3. Wan won the first frame of the final against Ng On-yee, then lost the next three, before winning another to trail 2–3. On-yee then won the sixth frame to take the match 4–2.[5][6][7]

She began the 2019–20 season ranked eighth.[8]

Titles and achievements

References

  1. ^ a b "Katrina Wan". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Athlete Profile: Wan Ka Kai". ashgabat2017.com. Ashgabat 2017. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  3. ^ Cheng, Kris (2 April 2016). "Hong Kong ladies pair wins world snooker championship". Hong Kong Free Press. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Calendar of Events" (PDF). Hong Kong Government Yearbook 2017. Government of Hong Kong. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  5. ^ "World Women's Snooker Australian Women's Open 2018". mysnookerstats.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  6. ^ Huart, Matt. "On Yee on Top Down Under". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Ng On-yee comes out on top in all-Hong Kong finale at first Australian Open in Sydney". South China Morning Post. 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Rankings". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.