A snooker sensation from Sedgley is on top of the world after potting her third world title in as many years.

Reanne Evans beat off competitors to win her third World Ladies Snooker Championship in Cambridge last weekend.

The 21-year-old hotshot retained the title she won for the first time in 2005 by beating the world number 18 Katie Henrick, from Bickley, in Kent, 5-3.

The win capped a fabulous season for Reanne who has won five out of the six tour events she has entered this year.

The event started with round-robin qualifiers over two days, with two from each of the four groups going through to the quarter-finals.

After battling through the qualifiers, Reanne cruised through the quarter-finals and the semi-finals without dropping a set by beating Eva Palmius, from Portsmouth, 4-0 and Emma Bonney, also from Portsmouth, by the same scoreline. Reanne also scored the highest break of the championships by shooting 82.

Her fellow Black Country competitor, Mario Catalano, also from Dudley, performed well and got through to the quarter-finals before succumbing to Katie Henrick, from Bickley, in Kent, 4-2.

Reanne defied the odds at last year’s world championships by winning the title despite being eight months pregnant.

She had resigned herself to the fact she would be unable to defend the title she had won the previous year but decided to enter the competition and surprised everyone by walking away with the crown.

Reanne said at the time: “I had given up hope of defending my title really – I just did not think I would be able to play with the baby only weeks away. But I was getting bored sitting at home and at the last minute decided to give it a go. My bump made things a bit difficult on certain shots but I was very pleased with the way I performed.”

Reanne shot to stardom in 2004 when she was chosen to represent Britain at the European Team Championships in Latvia.

A business studies student at Bishop Milner School, in Dudley, at the time, she was one of just seven amateur players in the UK chosen for the squad and one of only two players from the West Midlands. Despite her success, Reanne still regularly plays at Baggeridge Social Club and Sedgley Ex-Servicemen’s Club.