Forssa · WaBiSe · Finland

AnnikaSuominen

Finnish champion, ranking event winner and dedicated snooker and pool player from Forssa.

2021Started playing

2023Finnish snooker bronze

2025Finnish snooker champion

2025Finnish pool doubles champion

2026Women’s 9-ball ranking win

9-ballWomen’s ranking silver

The player

Practice has become the rhythm of everyday life.

Annika Suominen, from Forssa in Finland, began playing cue sports in 2021 and started training regularly the following year. In her Finnish Billiards Federation player profile, she says she usually practises snooker for several hours a day.

Annika names cue action, long potting and safety play among her strengths. Her rise to the national top has been rapid: Finnish women’s snooker bronze in 2023, Finnish snooker gold and pool doubles gold in 2025, followed by her first women’s 9-ball ranking event victory in March 2026.

Dedicated practice has taken Annika quickly to the national top and international competition.

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Women’s 8-ball ranking event · Hyvinkää, 10–11 October 2026Watch the live stream

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Women’s 8-ball ranking event · Hyvinkää · 10–11 October 2026

Annika finishes joint fifth to eighth

Annika beat Nam Rotjana Tiengtam 5–0 and Emmi Ahtiainen 5–2, lost 2–5 to Riikka Väyrynen, then secured a knockout place with a 5–0 qualification win over Minna Väätäinen. In Sunday’s quarter-final, ranking leader Miia Virtanen beat Annika 5–0. Annika ends the event with three wins, two losses and a joint fifth-to-eighth finish.

Round 1 · won 5–0

Nam Rotjana Tiengtam

PRBC · 22nd in the women’s rankings

Annika won the opening match without dropping a rack. The match list records a duration of 1 hour 8 minutes.

Round 2 · won 5–2

Emmi Ahtiainen

BCK · 12th in the women’s rankings

Ahtiainen won 10-ball Finnish Championship bronze in January 2025 and ranking-event bronze in Lahti in March 2026. Annika beat her 5–2 on Saturday; the recorded match duration was 1 hour 52 minutes.

Match 3 · lost 2–5

Riikka Väyrynen

MPT · 2nd in the women’s rankings

The 2026 women’s 9-ball Finnish champion, also champion in 2021 and 2022. Väyrynen beat Annika 5–2 on Saturday and qualified for the knockout stage. The recorded duration was 1 hour 31 minutes. She also beat Annika 6–4 in August’s opening ranking-event final.

Quarter-final complete · Sunday 11 October

Annika Suominen – Miia Virtanen

Miia Virtanen won 5–0. Musta Kasi, Hyvinkää · table 3 · duration 59 minutes. Final result checked in the results service at 13:02 Finnish time on 11 October 2026.

Miia Virtanen represents Salon Biljardikerho (SaBik) and leads the women’s pool rankings with 5,247 points. Annika is seventh with 2,974 points. Rankings checked on 11 October 2026 before this event concluded.

Virtanen won the women’s Finnish 10-ball and 9-ball titles in 2025. In 2026 she won 8-ball Finnish Championship silver and, in September, the women’s 9-ball doubles title with Jenna Jokinen.

In Hyvinkää, Virtanen qualified through the winners’ side: a first-round bye followed by wins over Laura Berg, 5–2, and Janika Ström, 5–1. Her quarter-final win sent her to the semi-finals and ended Annika’s event.

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Annika’s event · three wins, two losses

Annika Suominen – Nam Rotjana Tiengtam 5–0
Annika Suominen – Emmi Ahtiainen 5–2
Annika Suominen – Riikka Väyrynen 2–5
Annika Suominen – Minna Väätäinen 5–0
Annika Suominen – Miia Virtanen 0–5

Final result: joint fifth to eighth in a 32-player field.

Sources: match list · rankings (11 October 2026) · knockout bracket · 8-SM 2026 · women’s doubles 2026 · 9-SM 2025 · 10-SM 2025 · RG4 2026 · 9-SM 2026 · RG1 2026 · clubs · doubles championships 2025 (p. 22) · club coaches