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Maria Catalano
Maria Catalano (born 27 February 1982) is an English snooker player. Career In the 2007 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough National Championship. In December 2002, she was ranked number four in the world. She was ranked world number one for the 2013–14 season. In 2016 she described her ambition to win the Women's World Snooker Championship, to date she has been runner-up five times, the most recently in 2018. Catalano is a cousin of men's snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. In May 2022 she became the first woman to play in the World Seniors Championship, at the Crucible A crucible is a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures. While crucibles were historically usually made from clay, they can be made from any material that withstands te .... Performance timeline World Women's Snooker Titles and achievements References External links Profile on Global Snooker {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 World Ladies Snooker Championship
The 2008 World Ladies Snooker Championship was the 2008 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in 1976, and was played at Cambridge Snooker Centre from 3 to 7 May. The tournament was won by Reanne Evans, who achieved her fourth consecutive world title by defeating June Banks 5–2 in the final. Evans also made the highest of the tournament, 102. There were four round-robin qualifying groups, three of six players each, and one of seven players, with the top two players in each group progressing into the knockout stage. In the final, Banks won the first frame on the . Evans compiled a break of 52 in the next frame to win it, then took five of the next six frames. Hannah Jones, aged 11, won the under-21 title in an event run alongside the main tournament. Main Draw References {{DEFAULTSORT:World Women's Snooker Championship, 2008 2008 in English sport 2008 in snooker 2008 in women's sport May 2008 sports events in the United Kingdom Interna ... [...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] |
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 1–3 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Fisher
Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool, snooker and English billiards player. Career Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. She learned to play pool in her parents' pub and took up snooker when she was 13. By the age of 21, she had been ranked No. 1 for two consecutive seasons. Fisher won three successive Ladies World Snooker Championship between 1998 and 2000, and won the title again in 2002 and 2003. In 2001, she won four successive tournaments in the ladies' divisions – the British Open, Belgian Open, LG Cup titles and the UK Championship, and extended her winning streak to ten successive tournaments when she won the LG Cup in October 2002. She has reached the final of every European Ladies' Championship, losing just once to former West Yorkshire (Batley) champion Shakeel Kamal. In 2003 Fisher won the first IBSF World Ladies' Championship. When the sport's governing body withdrew its support for the women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England from 11 to 14 February 2022. It was the first staging of the World Women's Snooker Championship since 2019, following an 18-month suspension of the World Women's Snooker Tour between March 2020 and August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to receiving the newly renamed Mandy Fisher Trophy, the winner of the tournament earned a place on the professional World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2022–23 snooker season. Reanne Evans was the defending champion, having defeated Nutcharut Wongharuthai 6–3 in the 2019 final to win her 12th women's world title. However, Evans lost 1–4 to Wendy Jans in the quarter-finals, the first time in her career that she had not reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Three-time champion Ng On-yee came from 0–3 behind in her quarter-final against Wongharuthai to force a deciding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2018 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Dolmen Hotel, St. Paul's Bay, in Malta from 14 to 17 March 2018. Defending champion Ng On-yee won the event with a 5–0 win against Maria Catalano in the final. Ng On-yee won the title without losing a single frame over all six of her matches and as champion, qualified to enter the 2018 World Snooker Championship. This was the first time that the snooker world championship for women was organised under the banner of the World Snooker Federation (WSF). The WSF was formed in October 2017, supported by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and the European Billiards and Snooker Association. The event saw a slightly increased prize fund, with the winner receiving ,000. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below: * Winner: €6,000 * Runner-up: €3,000 * Semi-final: €1,300 * Quarter-final: €700 * Last 16: €300 * Highest break: €2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 World Women's Snooker Championship
The 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Lagoon Billiard Room in Toa Payoh, Singapore, from 13 to 19 March 2017. The event was the 2017 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. The event was won by Hong Kong's Ng On-yee, who defeated Vidya Pillai in the final 6–5. Playing time in the final was 8 hours and 4 minutes, making it the longest recorded best-of-11- match, surpassing the previous record of 7 hours and 14 minutes set at the 1992 UK Championship. The event featured a total prize fund of £15,000, with the winner receiving £5,000. On-yee scored the highest break of the tournament, a 76. The competition was sponsored by Eden Resources. Background The tournament was held at the Lagoon Billiard Room in Toa Payoh, Singapore, the first time in more than 20 years that the women's championship had been held outside the United Kingdom. Entry was on an invitational basis, with 32 players, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 World Ladies Snooker Championship
The 2016 World Ladies Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England, from 2 to 5 April 2016. The event was the 2016 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. The event was won by Reanne Evans, who defeated defending champion Ng On-yee 6–4 in the final. Background The event was hosted at the Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds. Qualifying featured five groups of five or six players each with eight players qualifying for the main tournament. Those players met eight seeded players in the last-16 knockout round. After the group stage, the players not reaching the main knockout tournament competed in a parallel "Plate" tournament. Matches in the group stage were best-of-three-. The first knockout round was best-of-five-frames; the quarter-finals and semi-finals best-of-seven, and the final was played as a best-of-11 match. Forty-one players from thirteen different countries participa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Women's World Snooker Championship
The 2014 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Northern Snooker in Leeds in April 2014. The event was the 2014 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. It was won by England's Reanne Evans, who defeated Hong Kong's Ng On-yee 6–0 in the final to win her tenth consecutive world title. The competition was sponsored by Eden Resources and had a total prize fund of £5,000. Players competed in Round Robin groups to determine the sixteen players for the knockout stages. Evans won all twelve in her group matches, and lost frames only to Wendy Jans in the knockout stages. The highest of the competition was a 79 compiled by Jessica Woods in the group stages, whilst the highest break of the knockout stages was 69 by Evans. Prize money Source: Snooker Scene Magazine *Winner: £1,500 *Runner-up: £1,000 *Losing semi-finalists: £400 *Losing quarter-finalists: £200 *Last 16 losers: £100 Knockout stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 World Ladies Snooker Championship
The 2013 World Ladies Snooker Championship was the 2013 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in 1976, and was played at Cambridge Snooker Centre from 14 to 15 April. The tournament was won by Reanne Evans, who achieved her ninth consecutive world title by defeating Maria Catalano 6–3 in the final, compiling two breaks during the match, including a 117 that was the highest of the tournament. There were four round-robin qualifying groups, each of five players, with the top three players in each group progressing into the knockout stage. The 2013 World Women's Billiards Championship, won by Emma Bonney, and a doubles snooker event, won by Ng On-yee and So Man Yan, were organised alongside the main snooker championship. Main Draw References {{DEFAULTSORT:World Women's Snooker Championship, 2013 2013 in English sport 2013 in snooker 2013 in women's sport International sports competitions hosted by England 2013 File:2013 Events Collage V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 World Ladies Snooker Championship
The 2012 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place at the Cambridge Snooker Centre in April 2012. The event was the 2012 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship first held in 1976. It was won by England's Reanne Evans, who defeated Maria Catalano 5–3 in the final to win her eighth consecutive world title. Catalano won the first of the final on the , and at the interval, the players were level at 2–2. Evans took the fifth frame with a break of 50 and then won the sixth to lead 4–2. Catalano made a 48 break in reducing her deficit to 3–4, but then Evans, who had recently started playing again after three months suffering from pleurisy, took the last frame and the title. Evans received £400 prize money as champion. Twenty-four players competed in four Round Robin groups to determine the sixteen players for the knockout stages. Emma Bonney was the only player to win all fifteen frames in her group matches. The highest br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
