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2003 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2003 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament played in the United Kingdom in 2003. Defending champion Kelly Fisher beat Lisa Quick Lisa Quick (born 31 May 1975) is an English snooker and pool player. She won the World Women's Snooker Championship in 2001, and was runner-up to Kelly Fisher in 2002 and 2003. She also won the WEPF World Eight-ball championship in 1999 and ... 4–1 in the final to win the title. Tournament summary Defending champion Fisher took a lead of 3–0 in the final at the Crucible Theatre, with breaks of 32, 45 and 90. Quick won the fourth on the before Fisher won the fifth to take the match 4–1 and win the world championship for the fifth time in six years. The highest break of the tournament was 125, by Fisher during qualifying. Quick made a break of 115. Prize money *Winner (Kelly Fisher): £5,500 *Runner-up (Lisa Quick): £2,750 *Semi-final losers: £1,500 *Quarter-final losers: £600 *Losers in the last 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy (cigarette)
Embassy is a Great Britain, British brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Imperial Tobacco. History Embassy was launched in 1914 by W.D. & H.O. Wills and was later relaunched as a coupon brand in 1962. When the Embassy brand was created, as a rebranding of Strand (cigarette), Strand, more effort was put into developing and launching it than any other previous cigarette brand. Embassy Filter was introduced in 1962 and was Britain's top-selling brand from 1964 until 1970, when it was overtaken by John Player & Sons, Player's No. 6. At its peak, it had 24% of the market in 1968. In 2001, Embassy No. 1 had a 3.1% share of the UK licit cigarette market, and an estimated 4.8% share of the illicit market (based on seizures). In 2004, Embassy accounted for 24% of the premium segment of the UK market. Two-time snooker world champion Alex Higgins sued the makers of Embassy in 1999, claiming that the encouragement from the sponsors to smoke Embassy cigarettes and the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Rizzuti
Anita Rizzuti (born 12 January 1971, also known as Anita Maflin) is a Norwegian snooker and pool player. She is married to professional snooker player Kurt Maflin. Career Rizzuti was a semi-finalist at the inaugural EBSA European Women's Championship in 1996, losing 0–5 to Karen Corr. She reached the semi-finals again in 2001, losing 1–4 to Kelly Fisher and was a quarter-finalist in 1999, 2004 and 2006. Rizzuti, Reanne Evans and Wendy Jans all took part in the 2010 World Open. Jans lost 0–3 to Alfie Burden in the first round. In the European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 4, Maflin lost 2–4 to Andreas Hartung. At European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 8, she lost 0–4 to Joe Steele, and at European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 1 she lost 0–4 to Anthony Jeffers. At European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 1 she lost 0–4 to Simon Dent. Rizzuti and Reanne Evans lost 1–3 to Ng On-yee and So Man Yan in the final of the 2014 WLBS World Ladies Pairs Championship. She is married to pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 In Snooker
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ... [...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] |
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] |
Walkover (contest)
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Isabelle Jonckheere
Isabelle Jonckheere is a Belgian amateur snooker player. She was runner-up to Wendy Jans Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ... at the 2006 EBSA European Snooker Championship for women. She has won the Belgian national women's snooker title three times, in 2005, 2006 and 2011. Career Highlights European Championship (Women) Team competitions BBSA Belgian National Championship (Women's) References Living people Belgian snooker players Female snooker players Year of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Jans
Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship, but lost 5–6 to Nutcharut Wongharuthai on the final black ball. Career Jans has won multiple national, European and World snooker titles. She won the Belgian national title seventeen times between 1998 and 2019. She has won a record twelve European Billiards and Snooker Association Ladies Championship titles, including six consecutive titles from 2013 to 2018, and the IBSF World Ladies Snooker Championship in 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Having beaten Waratthanun Sukritthanes in the 2017 IBSF World Snooker Championship final to win her seventh title, Jans lost 2–5 to her in the 2018 final. Jans, Reanne Evans and Anita Rizzuti all took part in the 2010 World Open, playing against men. Jans lost 1 ... [...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 |
Emma Bonney
Emma Bonney is an English world champion player of English billiards, and snooker player. She has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Emma Bonney is the only player to be ranked number 1 in the world at both snooker and billiards at the same time. Biography Bonney was born on 13 July 1976 in Portsmouth. English billiards Bonney has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Bonney won the first of her world billiards championship titles in 2000, having been runner-up in 1998. On 8 April 2010, she won her fifth World Ladies Billiards title at the Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham, beating Chitra Magimairaj of India 269–220 in the final. Bonney won her 13th world billiards championship, and sixth consecutive victory, in 2018. The 2019 World Women's Billiards Championship was held in Australia, and Bonney did not participate. Snooker Bonney has been the runner-up in the World Women's Snooker Championship three times. She lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Ingall
Lisa Ingall is an English snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2000 World Women's Snooker Championship. Biography Ingall started playing snooker at the age of 12, and by the age of 16 was practicing four hours a day after school, and for sixteen hours at weekends. She had experienced bullying at school, and transferred to Bromfords Secondary School in Wickford, where she did not have any problems with being bullied. In 1995 and 1996 she played on the girls' snooker circuit, winning four of the seven events and coming second in the other three, to leave her as the top ranked girl player. At the age of 16, and with the endorsement of her parents, she decided to become a professional snooker player, and did not take her GCSEs. She was named as the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association Young Junior Player of the year in 1996. In 2000, Ingall reached the semi-final of the UK Women's championship, losing 0–4 to Kelly Fisher A few months later, she reached her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Dehaene
Caty Dehaene (born 11 December 1965) is a Belgian snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2018 Women's EBSA European Snooker Championship. Playing career Caty Dehaene was runner-up in the Belgian Women's snooker Championship in 1995, 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2019. Dehaene and Wendy Jans won the Ladies European Team Snooker Championship in 2017, beating Anastasia Nechaeva and Daria Sirotina 4–3 in the final. At the 2018 EBSA European Snooker Championship, Dehaene reached the women's final, with wins of 3–0 against Ewilina Pislewska, 4–1 against Tatjana Vasiljeva and 4–2 against Yana Shut Yana Shut (born 29 July 1997 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian snooker and pool player. She is the first IBSF Under-18 World Snooker Champion and also WLBSA World Snooker Mixed Doubles Champion. In 2018 she became European Champion in 10-Ball .... In the final she lost 0–4 to Jans, who won the title for the sixth year in a row. Career Highlights Individual Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
