Nutcharut Wongharuthai


Nutcharut Wongharuthai is a Thai snooker player, and the only woman known to have made a maximum break of 147.

Biography

Wongharuthai's mother was a cashier in a snooker club, and her father enjoyed playing snooker. Wongharuthai herself started playing at the age of 10.
She is known as "Mink," stating that "in Thailand we call each and everyone by their nickname because our traditional Thai names are too long and we don’t have any Christian name like Western people. So we use nicknames instead."
In 2018 she won the World Women's Under-21 Championship. In 2019 she beat defending champion Ng On-yee in the quarter-final during her run to the World Women's Snooker Championship final, where she was beaten by 12-time champion Reanne Evans.
In March 2019 she made a 147 break during a practice session, which was the first and only known maximum break achieved by a female player.
Wongharuthai was one of four women to be selected for the Women's Tour Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, which is seen as an iconic venue for snooker, having been the venue for the men's World Snooker Championship since 1977.
She won the 2019 International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Women's 6 Reds Championship, beating Amee Kamani 4–2 in the final.
At the Australian Women's Open in 2019, Wongharuthai and Ng On-yee were the only players to complete their qualifying groups without losing a frame. Wongharuthai then progressed to the final, still without losing a frame, registering wins over Kimberly Cullen 3–0, Carlie Tait 3–0 and Jaique Ip 4–0 to reach the final, against Ng. Wongharuthai won the final 4–2, gaining her first ranking tournament win.
Hi-End Snooker Club in Thailand sponsors and supports her.

Career highlights