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Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (Thai: ศิริภาพร นวนทะคำจัน, born 24 May 1999), better known as Baipat Siripaporn, is a Thai snooker player who is the reigning world women's snooker champion. With compatriot Waratthanun Sukritthanes, she won the 2019 Women's Snooker World Cup.
Career
Baipat, from Chonburi, started playing snooker aged nine, coached by her stepfather Pisit Chandsri, a two-time world over-40s champion. In 2014, she won the International Billiards and Snooker Federation six-red snooker championship with a 4–2 victory over Anastasia Nechaeva in the final, having earlier eliminated former IBSF world champion Ng On-yee.
Aged 15, she defeated Mink Nutcharut 4–2 in the final of the 2015 International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Under-21 Championship. Baipat whitewashed Vidya Pillai 4–0 in the final to win the 2016 IBSF 6-reds snooker title.
In 2022, she won the Thailand national 9-ball pool title by defeating Sukritthanes 11–8 in the final, having earlier won Thailand's national snooker title.
Baipat reached the final of the 2023 World Women's Snooker Championship, after beating the defending champion Mink 5–2 in the semi-finals. Despite losing the first two frames of the final, she defeated Bai Yulu 6–3 to win her first women's world title.
Performance and rankings timeline
World Snooker Tour
| Tournament | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking | |||||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | A | A | |||||||
| European Masters | A | LQ | |||||||
| British Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| English Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| Wuhan Open | NH | LQ | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| International Championship | NH | LQ | |||||||
| UK Championship | A | LQ | |||||||
| Shoot Out | A | 1R | |||||||
| Scottish Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||
| German Masters | A | LQ | |||||||
| Welsh Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||
| World Open | NH | LQ | |||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||
| World Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Champion of Champions | A | 1R | |||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
World Women's Snooker
| Tournament | 2016/ 17 | 2018/ 19 | 2021/ 22 | 2022/ 23 | 2023/ 24 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current tournaments | |||||||||
| UK Championship | A | A | A | RR | SF | ||||
| US Open | Not Held | A | A | ||||||
| Australian Open | NH | A | NH | A | A | ||||
| Scottish Open | Not Held | A | NH | ||||||
| Masters | A | A | A | QF | A | ||||
| Belgian Open | NH | A | NH | A | A | ||||
| Asia-Pacific Championship | Not Held | F | |||||||
| World Championship | QF | SF | A | W | |||||
| British Open | Not Held | A | 3R | ||||||
| Former tournaments | |||||||||
| 10-Red World Championship | NH | 2R | Not Held | ||||||
| 6-Red World Championship | NH | SF | Not Held | ||||||
| Winchester Open | Not Held | QF | Not Held | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
Career finals
| Year | Tournament | Venue | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | IBSF World Under-18 Snooker Championship | Mol, Belgium |  Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | Nutcharut Wongharuthai (THA) | 3–1 | |
| 2017 | IBSF World Under-18 Snooker Championship | Beijing, China | Nutcharut Wongharuthai (THA) | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | 3–2 | |
| 2017 | IBSF Six-red Snooker Championship | Hurghada, Egypt |  Ng On-yee (HKG) | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | 4–0 |
| Year | Venue | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Yangon, Myanmar |  Amee Kamani (IND) | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | 3–0 | |
| 2022 | Doha, Qatar | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | Nutcharut Wongharuthai (THA) | 3–2 |
| Year | Tournament | Venue | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Asia-Pacific Women's Championship | Sydney, Australia | Ploychompoo Laokiatphong (THA) | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) | 4–1 | |
| 2023 | World Women's Snooker Championship | Bangkok, Thailand | Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (THA) |  Bai Yulu (CHN) | 6–3 |
