Ellise returns from Albania with gold and bronze medals

ELLISE Scott flies home to Eastleigh clutching a gold medal and a bronze medal from her first trip abroad to play snooker.

The 14-year-old Cuestars Under-21 Silver Tour player passed all but the wildest expectations in the 2025 European Women’s Championships in Albania.

“I’m really proud of the results I got,” she told cuestars.co.uk.

Ellise qualified to represent England by reaching the final of the EPSB English Women’s Championship.

On to the not-too-shabby Grand Blue Fafa Resort in Golem, the world number 36 topped her round-robin group with three straight wins which included a fine 2-1 victory over the eventual champion, Anna Prysazhnuka, from Latvia.

She then beat Ewelina Piślewska, from Poland, 4-1 in the quarter-finals before losing 4-0 to her England teammate Rebecca Kenna in the semis.

Moving on to the team event, which used Scotch doubles, Ellise and world number four Rebecca, from Keighley, Yorkshire, defeated the French mother and daughter pairing of Deu Rose Va and Rachelle Enfroy 3-2 from 2-1 down in the final.

Trailing by 15 points in the decider with four reds left, the English pair cleared the table with the competition’s highest break of 56.

Ellise said: “I feel like I played well at the end.

“I got on well with (Rebecca) yet I struggled a little as we play very differently to one another. It was a great experience and I learnt a lot.”

Turning to the clearance in the final, she added: “I was so nervous but we did it!”

Ellise played snooker competitively for the first time in the 2018 Easter Cup at Chandlers Ford Snooker Club – aged six. She is currently ranked number one on the World Women’s Snooker Tour under-21 rankings.

Picture: Rebecca Kenna (left) and Ellise Scott