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This year's edition of the annual World Women's Championship is underway in Dongguan in China, where it has been held for the last three years.

May 12th to 15th will see the group stages completed, where women from all over the world battle it out in groups of 5 over quickfire best-of-five matches. Then it is on to the knockout stages with increasing match lengths which will culminate with the best-of-11 final on May 19th.

Can Bai Yulu hold on to her two-year reigning crown as world champion or will she finally be dethroned?

The event will also include the World Women's Under-21 Championship, currently defended by Thailand's Panchaya Channoi, as well as the World Women's Seniors Championship where legend of the sport Tessa Davidson will try to hold on to her crown.

The whole event features a combined minimum prize fund of £42,000 with £13,000 on offer for the winner of the main championship.

You can follow all the action on the WPBSA YouTube channel.

After just one day's rest of play, snooker is back at the Crucible Theatre in the form of this year's iteration of the World Seniors Championship.

After a compact between World Snooker Tour and World Seniors Snooker expired, there is no restriction anymore for players ranked inside the top 64 on the main professional tour to compete in World Seniors events, and so the field is bigger this year than ever before with standout participants like Ali Carter and Ronnie O'Sullivan.

The first round, last 16 and quarter-finals will be played as the best-of-7 frames, before best-of-13 semi-finals and a best-of-19 final match.

The matches will be broadcast in the UK on 5 as well as on Pluto TV where international viewers from the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Australia can also follow the action.

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