The brand new World Blended Doubles occasion on the snooker calendar is simply a few months away and one of many stars of the present, Rebecca Kenna, believes it's going to be completely large for the ladies’s sport.
The primary version of the competitors will see the world’s prime 4 male gamers and the perfect 4 girls on the planet workforce up in pairs to compete over two days, dwell on ITV and ITV4.
The 4 girls concerned – Reanne Evans, Ng On-yee, Mink Nutcharut and Kenna may have the prospect to workforce with Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump, Mark Selby and Neil Robertson and play in entrance of an enormous tv viewers.
It's clearly a beautiful alternative for the gamers concerned, however Kenna thinks it might be an enormous event for the way forward for girls’s snooker, with the extent of publicity being large in comparison with what they've had prior to now.
‘This Blended Doubles is completely large. Not only for us 4 gamers, however for girls’s sport generally,’ Kenna advised the Speaking Snooker podcast.
‘To see it on the market and hopefully get extra women to see it and go: “Oh, I need to go and do this.”
‘Once I began enjoying, I by no means thought I’d be competing with these 4 and clearly have one in all them on my workforce.
‘Simply as a snooker fan, wow! What a chance! That’s testomony to how they’ve grown the ladies’s facet of the sport, to get the highest 4 girls and the highest 4 males on ITV, it’s large.
‘Big for the game generally, however large for the ladies’s sport. I’m so trying ahead to it, I’m hoping I can do properly and never be too nervous.’
The Yorkshire cueist revealed that the draw might be made at Ascot on 6 August, when she's going to discover out which of the 4 superstars of snooker she might be teaming with.
Unsurprisingly, with three former world champions and the present Crucible king on provide, she just isn't too fussed who she will get.
‘Any one in all them to be enjoying with can be a dream, superb,’ she mentioned. ‘You simply can’t select, there’s a motive to choose each single one in all them.
‘You need to be with Ronnie, he’s simply received the Worlds, he’s the perfect participant ever.
You need to be with Selby due to his grit and dedication, you need to decide Robbo for his cue motion.
You need to decide Judd as a result of he pots them for enjoyable. Any one in all them I’d be over the moon with, they most likely simply don’t need me.’
The World Blended Doubles is performed from 24-25 September on the Marshall Area in Milton Keynes.
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