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WPBA Tour
The Women's Professional Billiard Association Tour (known as the WPBA Tour) is a series of professional women's pool tournaments first held in 1992. Events on the tour are operated by the Women's Professional Billiard Association The Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) is a professional women's pool tour based in the United States. It was founded in 1976 as the Women's Professional Billiard Alliance by players Madelyn Whitlow and Palmer Byrd, and by Larry Mil ... (WPBA). Events in the Tour feature the women's U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, the WPBA Masters, and the WPBA Tour Championship. The series runs a world ranking format, based on the results of the prior 6 events. The Tour followed the WPBA receding from the Professional Billiard Tour Association (PBTA) the year prior. References External links * {{cue-sports-stub Pool tours and series Recurring sporting events established in 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pool (cue Sports)
Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in its logo but "pool-billiards" in its legal notices. The organization compounds the words to result in an acronym of "WPA", "WPBA" having already been taken by the Women's Professional Billiards Association. Normal English grammar would not hyphenate here, and the term is actually a Germanism. A general rules booklet on pool games in general, including eight-ball, nine-ball and several others. Each specific pool game has its own name; some of the better-known include eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. The generic term pocket billiards is sometimes also used, and favored by some pool-industry bodies, but is technically a broader classification, including games such as snooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Professional Billiard Association
The Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) is a professional women's pool tour based in the United States. It was founded in 1976 as the Women's Professional Billiard Alliance by players Madelyn Whitlow and Palmer Byrd, and by Larry Miller (editor of the ''National Billiard News''). Top 32 Players (2019 End of Year Rankings) # Allison Fisher # Brittany Bryant # Jennifer Barretta # Wei-Tzu Chien # Kelly Fisher # Line Kjørsvik # Siming Chen # Monica Webb # Jia Li # Melissa Little # Janet Atwell # Caroline Pao # Gerda Gregerson # Loree Jon Hasson # Emily Duddy # Teruko Cucculelli # Gail Eaton # Sara Miller # Jasmin Ouschan # Jenna Bishoff # Kim Ga-Young # Kristina Tkach Kristina Olegovna Tkach (; born 19 January 1999) is a Russian professional pool player. She became the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship winner, defeating Lee Woo-jin in the final 9–6. Tkach is a four time European champion hav ... # April Larson # Kim New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pool Tours And Series
Pool may refer to: Water pool * Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming * Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings * Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out * Salt pannes and pools, a water-retaining depression located within salt and brackish marshes * Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water * Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream * Spent fuel pool, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor Sports and gambling * Pool (cards), the common pot for stakes or the stakes themselves in card games * Pool (dominoes), the stock or boneyard in dominoes * Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table * Pool (poker) or pot (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker * Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
