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    "headline": "Thailand’s 18-year-old women’s world champion faces Neil Robertson at Champion of Champions in Lei",
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    "articleBody": "An 18-year-old from Thailand makes her debut on snooker’s big stage this week: Panchaya Channoi, the women’s world champion, plays Australia’s Neil Robertson, a former winner of the event, on November 10 at the Champion of Champions in Leicester, England. Channoi’s road Channoi qualified by winning the World Women’s Championship in May. The size of her task is easy to count. She needs four frames to beat Robertson, six to win the group final, six in a semifinal and 10 in the final: 26 frames in all, against opponents who have spent the past year winning professional titles. Robertson took the last open place in the field through his world ranking. If she gets through him, the winner of Trump against Jones is waiting at 7 p.m. the same evening. Organizers have set the field at 16 players, nearly all of them tournament winners from the past year, for a week at the Mattioli Arena that runs through November 15. The total purse is £440,000, with £150,000 for the champion. For readers new to the sport: snooker is a cue game played on a 12-foot table, and a match is decided by who wins the most frames, each frame being a self-contained game. This is an invitational, so it carries no world-ranking points. What it offers is a mid-season collision of everyone who has lifted a trophy lately. The draw Each group plays out in a single day, with two best-of-seven matches from 1 p.m. in Leicester (8 a.m. ET) and a best-of-11 group final at 7 p.m. (2 p.m. ET). One player from each day advances to the semifinals. November 9, Group One: Mark Selby vs. Alfie Burden; Barry Hawkins vs. Chris Wakelin November 10, Group Four: Neil Robertson vs. Panchaya Channoi; Judd Trump vs. Jak Jones November 11, Group Three: Shaun Murphy vs. Ronnie O’Sullivan; Wu Yize vs. Chang Bingyu November 12, Group Two: Zhao Xintong vs. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh; Kyren Wilson vs. Ali Carter Semifinals follow on November 13 and 14, both at 7 p.m. and both best-of-11. The final on November 15 is a best-of-19 contest split across two sessions. Who to watch Selby is the defending champion and the home favorite, since Leicester is his city. He beat Trump 10-5 in last year’s final and arrives holding the UK Championship as well. His opener is against Burden, whose Shoot Out win in December made him the oldest first-time winner of a ranking event. The heaviest match on paper falls on November 11. O’Sullivan, the event’s record four-time champion, qualified as the World Seniors champion and meets Murphy, the runner-up at this year’s World Championship in Sheffield. The same day, reigning world champion Wu Yize plays fellow Chinese player Chang Bingyu, who is making his first appearance here after taking his maiden ranking title at the Wuhan Open. China’s presence is one of the week’s clearest stories. Three of the 16 players are from China, and between them Wu and Zhao Xintong have collected a long list of the season’s trophies, including the World Grand Prix, Players Championship and Tour Championship for Zhao. Further reading Wikipedia: 2026 Champion of Champions Illustrative image. Image: Pete from Liverpool, UK, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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