The event was won by Hong Kong's Ng On-yee, who defeated Emma Bonney 6–2 in the final.

World billiards champion Emma Bonney, runner-up in the snooker championship in 2006 and 2011, took part in her first competitive tournament of the season.

Evans had recently lost 8–10 to the 1997 men's champion, Ken Doherty, in the qualifying competition for the 2015 World Snooker Championship.

[9] Source: Snooker Scene magazine, June 2015[10] The qualifying group matches were played on 18 and 19 April 2015.

Five players qualified whilst only losing one frame each: Ng On-yee, Reanne Evans, Emma Bonney, Inese Lukashevska and So Man Yan.

Jodie Allen, who had only taken up snooker in January 2015 having previously played pool, qualified for the next stage by coming second in her group.

[12] The two top seeds from qualifying, Jaique Ip Wan In and Ng On-yee, both from Hong Kong, both beat their opponents 3–0.

Defending champion Reanne Evans scored a 69 break during the first frame against Irina Gorbataya, and took the next two to win 3–0.

[3][5][7][10] The frame scores (Bonney first) were: 59–22; 68–38; 11–45; 44–72; 20–72; 14–60; 53–63; 7–72 In June 2015, On-yee played 2015 World Snooker Champion Stuart Bingham in an exhibition match in Hong Kong.

It was won by Jasmine Bolsover, who also made the highest break, 48, in the first frame of her match against Sandra Bryan.

[16] Bolsover, aged 15, had been given special permission to take two days off from her GCSE schedule, and received £120 prize money as the winner.

[10] Bolsover had recently reached the final of the Connie Gough Memorial ranking tournament, where she lost to Reanne Evans.