Bai Yulu (s=白雨露; born 10 July 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player who competes both on the women's tour and the main World Snooker Tour. A former world junior champion,
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
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 made her World Women's Snooker Tour debut at the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.
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 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.[ Bai lost in the fourth round to Jack Lisowski 61, falling just short of making the televised stages.]
At the 2025 Women's World Snooker Championship, Bai won her second consecutive world title. She defeated Mink 64 in the final, and became the seventh women to win multiple world titles.
Performance and rankings timeline
World Snooker Tour
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Ranking[It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season] | [She was an amateur] | [New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking] | 88 |
| Ranking tournaments |
| Championship League | A | WD | RR |
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | 1R | A |
| Wuhan Open | LQ | LQ | LQ |
| English Open | A | LQ | LQ |
| British Open | A | LQ | 1R |
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | LQ | LQ |
| Northern Ireland Open | A | LQ | LQ |
| International Championship | LQ | LQ | |
| UK Championship | A | LQ | |
| Shoot Out | A | 2R | |
| Scottish Open | A | LQ | |
| German Masters | A | LQ | |
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | |
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | |
| Welsh Open | A | WD | |
| World Open | A | LQ | |
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ | |
| World Championship | LQ | LQ | |
| Non-ranking tournaments |
| Shanghai Masters | 1R | A | A |
| Champion of Champions | A | 1R | |
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| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
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| means an event was not held. |
| means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |
| means an event is/was a ranking event. |
| means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |
World Women's Snooker Tour
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| Current tournaments |
| UK Championship | A | F | W | W |
| US Open | A | A | A |
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A |
| Masters | A | A | SF |
| WSF Women's Championship | Not Held | F |
| Belgian Open | A | A | A |
| World Championship | F | W | W |
| British Open | W | A | QF |
| Former tournaments |
| Albanian Open | NH | SF | NH |
|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
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| means an event was not held. |
| means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |
| means an event is/was a ranking event. |
Career finals
World Women's Snooker Tour
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| Women's World Championship (2–1) |
| Women's UK Championship (2–1) |
| Other (1–1) |
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| Runner-up | 1. | 2023 | Women's World Championship | | 3–6 | |
| Winner | 1. | 2023 | Women's British Open | | 4–3 | |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2023 | Women's UK Championship | | 1–4 | |
| Winner | 2. | 2024 | Women's World Championship | | 6–5 | |
| Winner | 3. | 2024 | Women's UK Championship | | 4–0 | |
| Runner-up | 3. | 2025 | World Snooker Federation Women's Championship | | 3–4 | |
| Winner | 4. | 2025 | | 6–4 | |
| Winner | 5. | 2025 | Women's UK Championship | | 4–2 | |
Amateur Events
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| Runner-up | 1. | 2018 | IBSF World Under-21 Women's Championship | | 2–4 | |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2019 | ACBS Asian Women's Championship | | 2–3 | |
| Winner | 1. | 2019 | IBSF World Under-21 Women's Championship | | 4–0 | |
| Winner | 2. | 2023 | ACBS Asian Women's Championship | | 3–0 | |
| Winner | 3. | 2023 | IBSF Women's World Championship | | 4–0 | |
| Winner | 4. | 2025 | World Games Women's Six-red Snooker | | 2–0 | |
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