May 2010 - EASB English Ladies champion.

Hannah won the first EASB English Ladies Championship at the World Snooker Academy EASB finals weekend. Hannah beat Jan Hughes 5-0 in the final. Jack Lisowski won the English Amateur Championships with a 9-2 win over Leo Fernandez.

All Winners below:

English Amateur - Jack Lisowski 9 - 2 Leo Fernandez
English Ladies - Hannah Jones 5-0 Jan Hughes
Under 19 - Kamran Ashraf 8-4 Sanderson Lam
Under 16 - Joel Walker 6-0 Sanderson Lam
Under 14 - Shane Castle 5-4 Adam Bobat
Seniors - Gary Morris w/o Steve Judd
Team - West Mids 5-2 Exeter
Club Players Champion Kamran Ashraf 5-1 Ryan Wood

April 2010 - Derbyshire Under 15 champion.

Hannah has won her first Derbyshire Snooker Tournament. She beat Kieran Campbell 3-1 in the final at the QRoom, Ilkeston.

In the group stages she didn't lose a single frame even though she was struggling with her performance and headed the group. Kieran had a tougher time looking as though he would be playing finishing the groups in 3rd place behind Ryan Ruane, but a great 2-0 win over Ryan propelled him into 2nd place and a chance at the title. It was Hannah, however, who held herself together to take the title after finishing runner up to Andrew Foster the last time that the event was held in 2007.

April 2010 - World Ladies Junior Champion for the 3rd time.

Hannah finished the WLBSA season with a fine win in the World Ladies Juniors taking the title for the 3rd consecutive time without losing a frame in the group or knockout stages. Hannah also finished at number 9 on the World Ladies Ranking list and starts next season provisionally ranked at number 7. Hannah also qualified for the knockout stages beating Hong Kong player Jaique Ip-Wan in her final group game to progress into the knockouts where she met Maria Catalano. Hannah lost to Maria but her securing a knockout place boosted her postition to 9 in the World rankings.

Hannah then played in the EABA English Girls Championships a couple of weeks later and beat Rochy Clarke in the final to win her first Billiards invdividual title.

March 2010 - Connie Gough and Haiti Charity event.

Hannah played in the Paul Woods sponsored Connie Gough National Ladies Snooker Tournament at Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham. She played Joanne Davies in the first round and won 3-1 before meeting Maria Catalano, cousin to Ronnie O'Sullivan and World number 2. Hannah lost the first frame on the brown, Maria won the next easily before Hannah cleared the colours from the brown in the next frame to win the frame by a point. Hannah lost the next to go out 3-1 but felt really good about the way she played. Hannah played in the Plate and went through win the event against Naomi Clare without dropping a frame. Hannah won the Junior event against Jodie Symes, again without dropping a frame in the event. The following day Hannah played in the Haiti charity tournament at Cueball. She lost in the first round to the eventual winner Paul Bennet then went into the plate and made her way to the final where she met Joanne Davies and prevailed 2-1 at the end of a very long weekend.

Feb 2010 - Pontins - Star of the Future.

Hannah played in her 2nd Pontins event. She was the only girl out of 168 players. In the 14 and under age group Hannah played very well against the top players and won 5 matches which put her into the knockout stages. She drew Ross Muir in the last 32 who beat Hannah and then went on to win the tournament. Congratulations to Ross Muir - pictures with Hannah and to Anthony McGill on winning the 15 and over category. It was a great event and Hannah came away from it with a renewed interest in the game,

Jan 2010 - South Coast Classic.

Hannah played in the South Coast Classic in Eastbourne. She didn't play particularly well due to being unwell and unable to practice for a couple of weeks. She did win her first round match in the main event 3-0 but then lost in the last 16 to Emma Bonney 3-1. Hannah went into the plate and won her last 16, quarter final and semi final match to make it to the final and a match with Natascha Niermann. Hannah won the first frame but lost the next 2. Hannah didn't play in the Junior event as she was scratched because she was still in the plate event. Jasmine Bolsover made her debut on the WLBSA circuit and did very well winning her first senior match against Maureen Logan and taking frames off Martina Lumsden and Hannah. Well done Jasmine.

December 2009 - Hannah is County Champion.

Hannah has won her first ladies pool tournament. She played in Derbyshire County Ladies singles championships which is a knockout event. She played 32 frames of pool losing just 4 frames. Hannah beat Sarah Hill in the final 7-0 and 2 x County Champion Melanie Adams 7-3 in the semi final, she beat Eve Warren 7-1 in the quarter finals and Christine 7-0 in the last 16. Hannah is the youngest player in the Derbyshire County Ladies setup to play in 2009 and this accolade is a great boost to her confidence. Hannah was runner up to Mel Adams in last years final.

December 2009 - Hannah tops English Ladies Ranking List.

Hannah played in the 3rd EASB Ladies ranking event in Woking and met up with a future star in the ladies game. 9 year old Jasmine Bolsover. Jasmine started brilliantly with a 2-1 win over Martina Lumsden who is currently ranked 10th on the WLBSA ranking list. she lost 3-0 to Gaye Jones and lost 2-1 to Marianne Williams. Her final match was against Hannah, after a very long day for both girls Hannah went 2-0 up but Jasmine potted the final black in the last frame to take a deserved frame off the current Ladies World Junior Champion. Hannah played well through most of the day and didn't lose a match coming top of the group. With the obvious non appearance of Maria Catalano, Katie Henrick or Reanne Evans, Hannah moves to the top of the English Ladies rankings with only the Ladies Championships left to play. Jasmine has a fantastic cue action and was very focussed around the table taking considered shots and playing intelligent snooker for a girl so young, she has so much potential and will be a name to look our for in the future..
(Picture Jasmine Bolsover and Hannah Jones)

December 2009 - Hannah makes final of Junior Comp

Hannah played in the Sigma Accounting Sponsored Junior Snooker Christmas Tournament. She played very well in the event making it to the final where she played Andrew Foster in the best of 7 round. She went into a 2-0 lead and missed the black in the 3rd to move to 3-0. Unfortunately she lost the remaining frames and it was apparent that tiredness had set in as the kids had been playing all day.

November 2009 - Hannah wins British Open Junior and makes plate final

A weary Hannah started her British Open event against Martina Lumsden but failed to produce the required snooker to beat her and ended up playing in the Plate event. She played Vicky Ashby in the quarter finals winning 2-0 and then played her good friend and much improved player Naomi Clare in the semip final where she again won 2-0. In between these matches Hannah made her way to the junior final where she faced Jodie Symes. This was a duplicate of the last event where Hannah played Eva and Jodie in the 2 finals. On this occasion though Hannah couldn't beat Eva who ran out 2-0 in confident style. Hannah changed tack and for the junior final and ay 1-0 up responded to a 22 from Jodie with a 30 break of her own and took out a difficult clearance from the brown in front of an admiring Reanne Evans to retain the Junior title she won last year.

November - Hannah wins Junior Sportswoman Award

Hannah had a great evening at Pride Park on 13th November at he Derbyshire Sports Awards where she was awarded the Derbyshire Junior Sportswoman of the Year for 2009. It was a great evening with a tremendous range of talent in the room. There was a fabulous 4 course meal with the presentations and entertainment throughout the evening. After the event the family packed up and travelled to Newmarket for the folowing days British Open event with a jubilant Hannah finally getting to sleep around 3am.

October 2009 - Hannah wins East Anglian Plate and Junior title

Hannah picked up 2 trophies on the weekend of 10th October in Cambridge. She retained the East Anglian Junior title from last year beating Jodie Symes in the 2009 final 2-0. She also played exceptionally well in the Plate event winning her second adult ranking event beating England International Marianne Williams in the quarter final, 8x German national Champion Natascha Niermann 2-1 in the semi final and World number 5 Eva Palmius 2-1 in the final. Here is a picture of Hannah with the Plate trophy. To read more click here

September 2009 - Hannah wins SportsPerson Award

Hannah won the DSSA - Derbyshire Schools Sports Person of the Year Award.

She was presented the award in front of 150 guests at Derby University, The Dome, Buxton.

Further information can be found here at the Derbyshire Sport website

September 2009 - Hannah wins Junior UK title

Hannah won the WLBSA Ladies UK Junior Championship on the weekend, beating Jodie Symes 2-0 in the final.

Here is Hannah and Reanne with Rosie Walker, a new ladies snooker fan, who got to meet 2 world champions and got coached by Hannah in snooker. She came along to the event with her parents and was hooked straight away.

September 2009 - Hannah wins Junior Sportswoman of the Year

July 2009

Hannah recently filmed an internet advert for Robinsons Fruitshoot. on Reanne Evans Snooker Table. The advert can be seen at:

www.fruitshoot.com

June 2009

Hannah receives a Certificate of Excellence from the Governors of her school, Ecclesbourne. This is a prestigious award which was presented to her in recognition of her sporting and academic performance since she started secondary school. These certificates are presented to only a few pupils a year and they never get presented with another one.

Hannah finished her school year being presented with a Merit Tie which recognises Hannah as a sporting talent in the school and was for her performace at the World Championships in April.

April 2009 - Hannah wins World Doubles

To complete a fantastic World Championship, Hannah entered the World Ladies Doubles with Jaique Ip Wan-In as her partner. They both played exceptionally well and made it tothe final where they played against Chris Sharpe and So Man Yan. After going 1-0 down the girls rallied and pulled off a 2-1 victory making up for Hannah's loss in the World plate final.

Photograph of the winners Hannah Jones and Jaique Ip

April 2009 - Hannah makes the final of the World Ladies Plate

Hannah reached her first senior World Final after beating Natascha Niermann the 8 x German Ladies Snooker Champion in the semi finals. She managed this with great colour clearances in the 1st and 3rd frames to win on the black. Hannah played So Man Yan in the final and pushed the Hong Kong player losing on the black in the first frame and on the pink in the 2nd frame.

The picture shows Hannah alongside Natascha Niermann her semi final opponent.

April 2009 - Hannah retains World Junior Title

Hannah Jones retained her World Ladies Junior title beating Joanne Davies 2-1 in the final. Hannah found it more difficult to retain the title than to win the event the previous year.

Picture of Hannah with the Junior trophy.

Photograph taken by Glenn Stanley of YourDigitalMemories.

April 2009 - Hannah makes highest match break

Hannah played the Indian National Champion Vidya Pillai and after a 2 close frames Hannah beat her highest break knocking in a 49 break, falling down on a tough red to break 50. The following day, playing Emma Bonney, Hannah managed to break 50 knocking in a 52 break to take their match to 1-1.

April 2009 - 2nd

Hannah, along with other talented sports stars from Derbyshire was awarded a Bursary for the 2nd year from the Derbyshire Talented Athlete Fund. The presentation was at the University of Derby where Hannah also enjoyed a seminar from David Brailsford, Performance Director for British Cycling.

http://www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/news_events/news/2009/march/reach_stars.asp 

February 2009 - Hannah wins first Adult plate ranking event

Hannah played in the 2009 South Coast Classic at the QClub in Eastbourne. She played in the main event and beat Marianne Williams 3-2 in the First Round. She lost to the defending champion Emma Bonney in the last 16. Hannah then moved in to the plate section where she won her first match against Naomi Clare, She then beat Supanni Yam-Oum in the quarter final and followed this up with a win against 21 year old Stacey Hancock - a great new addition to the WLBSA membership. Hannah then played Vicky Ashby in the final. She lost the first frame, won the second frame aided by a 31 break and doubled the final black in the 3rd frame to record a victory and set a new record for the youngest player to win a Senior Ladies ranking event. Here Hannah is pictured alongside World Champion, World number 1 and South Coast Classic Champion Reanne Evans after the 2 had won their respective finals.

November 2008 - Hannah wins British Open Junior title

Hannah played in the WLBSA British Open Ladies event in Newmarket. Hannah played well in the main event beating Jan Hughes in the last 32. She came up against Maria Catalano - cousin the Ronnie O'Sullivan and number 1 seed. Hannah played well to win her first ever frame from a top 5 player, however she lost the match 3-1 in the end. Hannah then played in the Junior Event and improved as the day progressed finally winning the title at 5:30pm against good friend Joanne Davies.

November 2008

Hannah played at her first Great Yarmouth national pool festival for Derbyshire ladies. Here she is with 2008 National Ladies Champion Debbie Burchill (diamond). Hannah played very well throughout the trip winning a couple of matches against the ladies and taking a few frames from the men in the flyers.

October 2008 - Hannah wins East Anglian Ladies Junior title

Hannah played in the World Ladies East Anglian Ladies Junior Championships and beat hewcomer 14 year old Naomi Clare in the final. This is Hannah's 2nd consecutive junior ladies title. She beat her friend and 16 year old England International Joanne Davies in the semi final and 15 year old Georgina Holloway in the quarter final.

October 2008

Hannah was nominated for the Amber Valley Active Sports - Junior Sportswoman of the year. She received the runner up trophy losing out to 17 year old swimmer Emma Smithurst.

September 2008

Hannah played in the World Ladies UK Championships and had a great day. She won her first match against her friend Joanne Davies from Cueball and met World Billiards Champion Emma Bonney in the next round. Hannah pushed Emma close in every frame and surprised her with her improved ability. Hannah went into the plate tournament and progressed solidly through to the final of the event where she came up against Suzie Opacic the 2006 World Ladies Junior Champion. Hannah had chances to win the match and played the more convincing snooker - according to Suzie, however Suzie prevailed on the final pink in the deciding frame to wrap up an excellent win for her and an excellent day for the ladies. As a result of this event Hannah has now moved into the top 10 on the provisional ranking list.

September 2008

Hannah qualified to play in the 2008 Wytech World Ladies Masters. She played exceptionally well to go into the Quarter finals where she came up against her idol Reanne Evans. Hannah played well enough for Reanne to comment on her improvement however Reanne is a class above all of the ladies on the circuit and eased to a 3-0 victory before going on to take the tournament title for the second xonsecutive year.

August 2008

Hannah was invited to play in her first exhibition against the members of the Rotary club of Belper and Duffield the members of the Conservative Club. Hannah had a great night playing snooker and joking with her opponents. Thanks to David and Gail Ashley for arranging the evening.

August 2008

Hannah and the England A squad managed a clean sweep in Austria and won the Welham-Grice Trophy. It was a fantastic few days in Austria with very friendly hosts and great billiards. Hannah started the campaign well with a 2-1 win over the Austrian Captain Steffi Dolezal.

Dominic Dale presented the certificates and trophy to the winners. A hello and thanks from Hannah and Mark goes to Peter Mann, Maximillian Thurr and Alex Gauss.

August 2008

Hannah will be playing for England in the Welham-Grice 2008 Junior Nations Cup in Vienna. She is part of a 2 team English Squad to play the Austrians.

The teams are:

The event will be held at the Koo5 club on the 15th and 16th August.

May 2008

Hannah played in the WLBSA World Ladies Junior Snooker Championships at Cambridge Snooker Centre.

Hannah played her best ever snooker to win the title without dropping a frame.

She played Georgina Holloway in the semi final. and then Joanne Davies in the final.

Hannah takes over the mantle from Suzie Opacic who was the World Ladies Junior Champion in 2006.

April 2008

Hannah has been selected to receive a bursary from the Derbyshire Talented Athlete fund. She attended a publicity shoot at Moorways Sports Centre with the other recipients.

More information on the day can be found here:

http://www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/news/18-athletes-from-derby-rewarded-for-their-sporting-excellence

01 March 2008

Hannah reached the quarter final of the National Ladies Tournament.

Hannah played in her 3rd Connie Gough Ladies National Tournament. She first entered the event in 2006 where she met a heavily pregnant Reanne Evans for the first time. This time around Hannah battled through to the quarter finals to meet her hero and played very well to challenge Reanne, narrowly missing the black to win the first frame. Reanne though resumed her dominance with a 70 and 40+ in the 2nd and 3rd frames to win 3-0.

A confidence boosting performance though for Hannah before the World Ladies Championships.

26 January 2008

Ian McCulloch played to a large audience of spectators at Cueball Snooker Club. Hannah played Ian first and potted the first few balls of the exhibtiion. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience which was made better by the presentation after the the event where she was presented with her winners trophy for winning the Green League. She lost only 1 match throughout the whole of the league season.

The picture shows the Jones clan, Dave (Grandad), Ian, Hannah and Mark (Dad) towards the end of the evening.

26 January 2008

Ian McCulloch is the special guest star to appear at the junior club on Saturday 26th January at 7pm. He will play a number of juniors in an exhibition at the Cueball Snooker Club, Mansfield Road, Derby. Hannah will get a chance to play Ian in the first match because she recently won the Green League Championship. Dan Gaskarth will also get to play Ian as he won the Red League Championship.

Hannah first met Ian at her first ever WLBSA ladies tournament in February 2006, held in Preston, at the age of 9 (opposite).

The exhibition starts at 7pm

29 November 2007

Hannah has returned from Thailand with a wealth of experience. She has made lots of new friends, played against some of the best lady players in the world, was tutored by World Champion Reanne Evans and the awesome David Lilley and had a couple of quick frames with Michael Rhodes.

Hannah impressed alot of people and has gained lots of experience for future events.

Her photos have been uploaded ** here **and the video of the trip will be uploaded shortly. Her blog has also been updated ** here **.

31 October 2007

The groups have been drawn for the IBSF World Amateur Championships. Hannah is in Group A alongwith the current IBSF World Ladies Champion Wendy Jans. Reanne is playing from Group C.

You can see the groups on the IBSF website - Click here

Global Cue Sports will also be covering the event in detail - Click here

16 October 2007

Hannah has been selected for the fourth time to represent her country at the 2007 IBSF World Amateur Championships in Thailand from 10th November through to the 25th November 2007.

Hannah is very excited to be provided with this opportunity to play against the best ladies in the World. It will be a fantastic experience for her and one that she will never forget. She has started to practice in earnest for the competition to try and give the ladies her best game. Hannah has also promised to start up her blog again (long overdue) to provide visitors to the site with her day to day experiences in Thailand and at the event.

Reanne Evans won the inaugural Wytech Ladies Masters 2007 at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Claycross, Derbyshire.

Ten ladies, including World Champion Reanne Evans and 11 year old International Hannah Jones played in the event and battled it out for the honour of winning a brand new title. Reanne carried on her devastating form from last season to lift the trophy and then went one better by retaining the World Ladies UK Championship the following day at the same venue.

Hannah is featured in the July/August Cuesport Magazine. Reproduced with kind permission of John Dee and Tim Dunkley.

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