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1990 Women's World Snooker Championship
The 1990 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament. Sixty-six players entered the event, with the matches leading up to the semi-final being played at the Matchroom Club in Romford, England from 25 October and 4 November. The semi-finals and final were played at the Waldorf Hotel in London from 9–11 November, and received nine hours of television coverage on the European satellite channel Screensport. The competition was promoted by Barry Hearn's Matchroom organisation and sponsored by Trusthouse Forte and had a total prize fund of £30,000. Karen Corr, who had her 21st birthday on the day of her semi-final match, won in the final 7–4 against Stacey Hillyard. Following this tournament, losing finalist Hillyard replaced Allison Fisher Allison Fisher (born 24 February 1968) is an English professional pool and former professional snooker player. Biography Fisher was born on 24 February 1968 in Cheshunt and grew up in Tonbridge, Kent and lived lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forte Group
Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. History Charles Forte (26 November 1908 – 28 February 2007) was a British/Italian caterer and hotelier who founded the leisure and hotels conglomerate that ultimately became Forte Group. Charles Forte, funded by his two business partners, Eric Hartwell and Sidney Hartwell, set up his first "milk bar" on Regent Street in London in 1935 as ''Strand Milk Bar Ltd'' when he was 26. Soon he began expanding into catering and hotel businesses. After the Second World War, his company became Forte Holdings Ltd, and bought The Café Royal in 1954. Forte was a major caterer at the Festival of Britain sites in 1951 and also operated the restaurants and bars at London Airport, later known as London Heathrow airport. Forte opened the first full motor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Hearn
Barry Maurice William Hearn (born 19 June 1948) is an English sporting events promoter and the founder and President of promotions company Matchroom Sport. Through Matchroom, Hearn is also involved in many sports including snooker, darts, pool, tenpin bowling, golf (see PGA EuroPro Tour), table tennis and fishing. Hearn is currently the chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation, and was also until July 2010 chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). He was also, until July 2014, the chairman of Leyton Orient F.C. Biography Early life Hearn was born in 1948 on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex, and educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School. He worked and then ran a series of small businesses as a teenager, from washing cars to picking fruit and vegetables. After qualifying as an accountant, Hearn took over the role of finance director to a design company based in Kensal Green, called Deryck Healey Associates (circa 1973). He formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Women's Snooker Championship
The World Women's Snooker Championship (formerly known as the Women's World Open Championship from 1976 to 1981 and the World Ladies Snooker Championship from 1983 to 2018) is the leading tournament on the World Women's Snooker Tour. The reigning champion is Nutcharut Wongharuthai. Beginning in 2022, the women's world champion will automatically receive a place on the main professional World Snooker Tour. If the tournament winner already has a place on the professional tour, the next highest ranked player will receive a place. History The tournament began as the Women's World Open Championship, which, as the most prestigious event for female players, was effectively the world championship. The first tournament was held in 1976, and the event was held again in 1980 and 1981. The competition was staged from 1983 onward as the World Ladies Snooker Championship. Over the next two decades, the tournament was dominated by Allison Fisher (7 titles), Karen Corr (3 titles), and Kelly Fis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Banks
June Banks (born 4 March 1969) is an English snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2008 World Women's Snooker Championship, Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 16 August 2019. Biography Banks played in the 1987 , reaching the quarter final, where she was beaten by . From 1995 to 2002, Banks was beaten in five tournament finals by |
Caroline Walch
Caroline Walch (born 17 June 1961) is an English snooker player. She has won titles on the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker circuit and was runner-up in the 2000 World Women's Billiards Championship. Career Walch began her sporting career in 1983. In 1985, she won the Pontins (Brean Sands) Ladies tournament, was the losing finalist in the UK championship, and a semi-finalist in the world championship. She reached the world championship semi-finals again the following year. At the 1991 Home Internationals tournament, Walch and Kim Shaw, representing England, won the women's competition. Walch won all her matches, and England finished top of the table ahead of Scotland on difference. The other teams participating were Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man. Walch, paired with Jimmy White, reached the 1991 World Masters Mixed Doubles final, but they lost 3–6 to Steve Davis and Allison Fisher. In 2000, Walch was runner-up in the World Women's Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Davidson
Tessa Davidson (born 1969) is an English snooker player from Banbury, Oxfordshire. She won a number of ranking titles on the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association circuit. Biography In 1989, Davidson won the UK Championship. In 1991 she won the Western Women's Championship and the Pontins Ladies' Bowl. At the 1991 Women's World Snooker Championship, Karen Corr won the first of her semi-final against Davidson with a of the . She then won the second on a , and later the fourth frame with a fluked on her way to a 5–0 win. Later in 1991, Davidson made a women's world record break of 135 at the British Open. In 1992 she joined the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and competed in events on the professional circuit for the 1992–93 season. Following a break of some three years from playing, Davidson started competing again and reached the final of the Regal Welsh Open. She went on to win the 1998 UK Championship, winning 4–1 in the final again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Fisher
Mandy Fisher (born in April 1962) is an English former professional snooker player and a World Women's Snooker Championship winner in 1984. Fisher founded the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (now known as World Women's Snooker) in 1981 and currently serves as the president. Career Fisher started playing snooker at the age of 16.Board Members – Mandy Fisher Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 20 July 2019 She founded the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA) in 1981 and in addition to playing, led the administrative side of the sport in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the losing finalist at the 1981 |
Ann-Marie Farren
Ann-Marie Farren (born 29 August 1971) is an English former snooker player. She won the World Ladies Snooker Championship in 1987, at the age of 16, and was runner-up in 1988 and 1989. Biography Farren started playing aged seven, on a 4 ft by 2 ft snooker table that her father Hugh bought her. She left Chilwell Comprehensive School with one O-level, having prioritized snooker above her studies, and went into snooker as a career. She prepared for the 1987 world championship by practicing on a £4,000 table her father installed for her in a specially built room in the garden. 56 players participated in the 1987 tournament. Farren progressed through to the final, where she played Stacey Hillyard. Farren achieved a 5–1 victory to take the prize of £3,500 and the trophy, plus a double magnum of champagne that she was not old enough to drink, being only 16 years and 48 days old at the time. She was the second-youngest champion, the youngest being her beaten opponent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Aplin
Georgina Aplin is an English former professional snooker player. Career When the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) opened membership to anyone over the age of 16 who paid the relevant fee, in 1990, Aplin was one of six women to join, along with Allison Fisher, Ann-Marie Farren, Stacey Hillyard, Karen Corr, and Maureen McCarthy, whilst 443 men joined at the same time. Aplin played only one match as a professional, losing 3–5 to Amrik Cheema in the first qualifying round of the 1992 Strachan Open. Aplin began playing snooker aged 8 on a small table at home. She practised on a full-sized table from the age of 14, and started playing competitively soon afterwards. She reached several women's snooker finals, including the first event of the 1984 Women's Grand Prix, where she lost 1–6 to Sue Foster. Her first tournament win was at the LHC Snooker Association championship in 1987, where she defeated Hillyard 3–0 in the final. She also won the 1987 Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Horsburgh
Lynette Horsburgh ( ; born 1974) is a Scottish-English semi-professional, world champion pool and national champion snooker player, as well as an international-class player of English billiards. In sport, she represents Scotland. Outside sport, she is a professional Web content producer and journalist at ''BBC News Online''. Career Horsburgh began playing snooker at age 8 on a home table, wearing roller skates to reach the table, Interview. playing in earnest since 11, and competing in weekend tournaments as a teenager. She says that playing at the Commonwealth Sporting Club in Blackpool in 1983 with her hero, world champion Steve Davis, is what inspired her. She lamented the snooker hall's demolition in 2009 (though it had been converted into a bowling alley in 1989) and the role the venue played for her in a sport dominated by men: Early years Despite the loss of her preferred venue and the snooker celebrity crowd – an ideal training pool – that it had attracted duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Shaw (snooker Player)
Kim Shaw is an English snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 1995 World Women's Snooker Championship, and was the first player to compile a break in a World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association tournament. Biography Shaw started playing snooker in 1984, at a snooker club in High Wycombe. In the late 1980s, Shaw combined her playing career with working at Rileys Snooker Club, on the Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire She reached the semi-finals of the World Women's Snooker Championship in 1986, losing 3–4 to Sue LeMaich. Shaw reached the quarterfinals of the world championship in both 1991 and 1994, before her best showing, in the 1995 tournament, which was held in India. Her 1995 world championship run saw her defeat Maryann McConnell, Lynette Horsburgh and Tessa Davidson on her way to the semi-final, where she beat Allison Fisher, who had won the championship on each of the last three occasions that it had been run, by 5 to 3. In the final, Shaw lost the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryann McConnell
Maryann McConnell is a Canadian snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 1984 Professional World Women's Snooker Championship, and has won numerous pool tournaments in Canada. Biography McConnell started playing at the age of 24, at the University of Guelph in Ontario where she studied from 1974 to 1980. She later drove daily to a pool hall in nearby Kitchener, where she played snooker, practicing for as much as eight hours a day. In 1980, 1981 and 1983, she was a quarter-finalist in the World Women's Snooker Championship. For 1984, separate amateur and professional events were staged. McConnell entered the professional event, and reached the final, losing 2–4 to Mandy Fisher. At one time, McConnell was the second-ranked woman player. She was the runner-up in the 1984 National Express Grand Prix ladies snooker series, and spent the summer of 1985 living in Saudi Arabia. In 1991 she took part in the 1991 World Masters, losing in her first matches in both the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
