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The 1988 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's
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tournament that took place in October 1988. It was the 1988 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in
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. Holiday Club Pontins provided prize money totalling £10,000 and the event was held at their resort in
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. The tournament was won by Allison Fisher, who lost only one during the event and defeated
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  ...
6–1 in the final. This was Fisher's third world snooker title, and she would go on to win a total of seven championships before focusing her efforts on pool in the United States from 1995.


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