WORLD WOMEN’S STAR TESSA DAVIDSON made her debut at The Crucible on Wednesday within the 2024 World Seniors Championship – changing into the primary lady to get a body on the board within the occasion – regardless of dropping 3 – 1.
The 4-times Winchester Girls’s Sequence Occasion winner and the World Girls’s Seniors Champion performed Brazilian Igor Figueirido within the first day’s play of enthralling matches which noticed the likes of Ken Doherty et al additionally take to the stage for the five-day bonanza of prolonged snooker on the UK’s iconic and most much-loved snooker venue.
She’s the second participant to have walked down the well-known steps of The Crucible within the Seniors because it was the previous World Girls’s No 1 Maria Catalano that paraded the occasion final day out.
After the thrills and elation of the World Snooker Championships with Kyren Wilson scooping a maiden World title, the World Seniors Occasion which runs till Sunday sees the likes of, Jimmy White and Ken Doherty all in motion all wanting to scoop a primary prize of 20K – up from 5K final yr.
HISTORY-MAKER👏
Spectacular stuff from Tessa Davidson as she turns into the primary feminine participant to win a body on the televised phases of the @MrVegas_Casino World Seniors Championship!
Watch LIVE on @5ACTION_tv #SeniorsSnooker | @WomensSnooker | @Channel5Sport pic.twitter.com/qGUCZLPImj
— World Seniors Snooker Tour (@WorldSeniors) Might 8, 2024
Jimmy White goes for a fifth World Seniors Title and delivered a particular message on social media at first of the occasion.
girls in sport! @Womeninsport_uk https://t.co/17Ykg4K89U
— Snooker Legends (@Snookerlegends) Might 8, 2024
Thailand’s Legend participant James Wattana rolled again the years to e-book a spot within the subsequent spherical – and it was additionally one other proud second for the Australian debutant Tyson Crinis.
Lee Richardson, a former skilled and Snooker Legends 900 commentator, wrote this on Fb:
“It was a pleasure to see her play once more. She had him on the ropes. Simply a few simple balls missed, and it could have been throughout.”
He added: “All in all, Tessa was nice.”
The World Seniors Championship is LIVE on CHANNEL FIVE EACH DAY from 12PM and 7PM till Sunday.
THE FACES OF VICTORY 😁
James Wattana and Ken Doherty are the primary two gamers into the @MrVegas_Casino World Seniors Championship quarter-finals!
Who will be a part of them this night?#SeniorsSnooker | @Channel5Sport pic.twitter.com/owrL1Orp0F
— World Seniors Snooker Tour (@WorldSeniors) Might 8, 2024
WATCH: TESSA DAVIDSON IN PRACTICE WITH CUESTARS FOUNDER JOHN HUNTER