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 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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