Ng On-yee

Ng On-yee (born 17 November 1990) is a Hong Kong snooker player who has won three IBSF World Snooker Championships and three World Women's Snooker world championships.

Ng was born on 17 November 1990.

She grew up in Hong Kong, within the working-class district of Sham Shui Po.

She began learning to play snooker at the age of 13 in the snooker hall in which her father worked.

He encouraged her to take up the game because she was lacking direction, performing poorly at school, and spending a lot of time playing online games.

Ng was impressed by her father's playing ability and attire; she took up the sport and was coached by her father.

She started entering tournaments in 2006.

She would practise the sport for between five and six hours daily; in one of her practice routines, Ng would cue through a small ring placed on the table to help assess her accuracy.

Her first international tournament was the 2006 IBSF Women's Championship in Amman.

Ng's first experience of an international snooker competition was at the 2006 IBSF Women's Championship in Amman, Jordan, where she won three of her eight matches in the qualifying group, winning 13 and losing 16.

In 2007 and 2008, she won the Hong Kong Under-21 Snooker Open Championships, in which she competed against male players.

In the group stage of the 2007 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, she recorded a 3–0 win over Hasani Armaghan of Iran and a 3–1 win over Arantxa Sanchis but lost 0–3 to Bi Zhu Qing.

She also achieved 3–0 wins over Ramona Belmont of New Zealand, and Aakanksha Singh and Keerath Bhandaal from India, the latter of whom was aged 11.

In the semi-final, Ng won the first frame against her opponent Belmont, who took the next one.

Ng won the following two frames to face Bi Zhu Qing in the final, in whish Ng lost the first two frames then equalised the score to 2–2 before losing the last two frames.

Bi won the match 4–2.

Ng lost her quarter-final match 2–3 to Bi Zhu Qing at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau in November 2008.

In the qualifying group for the 2009 IBSF World Snooker Championship, Ng lost 2–3 to Ramona Belmont, whom she had defeated twice in the 2007 under-21 championship, and then bested Anuja Chandra 3–1 and Yu Ching Ching 4–2.

In the last-16 round, Ng was trailing 0–2 to Yu Ching Ching but won four frames in a row to win the match 4–2.

In the semi-finals, Ng faced Belmont and prevailed 4–3, having led 2–0 before falling behind 2–3.

In the final, Ng produced some impressive and defeated Kathy Parashis, a 10-time winner of the Australian Open, 5–1.

When Ng was leading 3–1, the players were summoned to drug tests and returned to take the remaining frame she required to win the match, becoming the youngest-ever IBSF women's champion at the age of 19.

Ng was omitted from the Hong Kong squad for the 2009 East Asian Games, which were held in Hong Kong soon after her victory in the IBSF World Championship, because she was unable to attend the team training camp.

She has been supported by the Hong Kong Sports Institute since 2010.

Since 2010, Ng has been supported by the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI), where she is an elite sports scholarship athlete.

At the 2010 Asian Games, Ng won the gold medal as a member of the women's six-red snooker team, along with So Man Yan and Jaique Ip.

She also won a bronze medal for reaching the semi-finals in the six-red singles competition.

She lost 3–4 to Chen Siming in the semi-finals of the individual competition.

On 15 December 2010, Ng successfully defended her IBSF World Snooker Championship title in Syria, defeating compatriot Jaique Ip 5–0 in the final.

Having won the first three frames comfortably, Ng won the last two frames on the.

On her way to the final, Ng won all six of her matches in the qualifying group without losing a frame.

At the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship she defeated Reanne Evans—who had held the title for the previous ten years—in the semi-final and won the title.

In 2015, she was receiving HKD25,000 a month from the HKSI.

Ng left school at 17 to concentrate on her snooker skills but later returned to studying, and in 2016 gained a Higher Diploma in accounting from the School of Professional and Continuing Education of the University of Hong Kong.

After losing the final of the same tournament to Evans the following year, Ng regained the title in 2017, defeating Evans 5–4 in the semi-final and overcoming Vidya Pillai 6–5 in the protracted final.

She held the number one position in the World Women's Snooker world ranking list from February 2018 to April 2019.

After competing in several International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) tournaments, Ng became the youngest-ever IBSF women's world champion at the age of 19 and successfully defended the title the following year.

In 2018, Ng won the title for a third time and in 2019 she collected her third IBSF World Title.

Ng took up snooker at the age of 13 after being impressed by her father's skill at the game.

Her highest in competition is 139, which she achieved at the 2018 Australian Women's Open.