June Banks (born 4 March 1969) is an English

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player. She was runner-up in the 2008

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 ...

,World Champions
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Biography

Banks played in the 1987

, reaching the quarter final, where she was beaten by

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) ...

. From 1995 to 2002, Banks was beaten in five tournament finals by

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 snooke ...

. Banks' first notable tournament victory came in 2005, when she beat

Reanne Evans Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the professional World Snooker Tour. She is the number one ranked player on the women's tour, and regularly featur ...

to become British Ladies Snooker Champion. Since then she has reached several other finals, and won the World Ladies Senior championship (for players aged 40 and over) for three consecutive years, 2009–2011. She was runner-up in the 2008

, losing 2–5 to the dominant player of the era, defending champion

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won the title each year from 2005 to 2014, and also in 2016 and 2019. Banks practices at the

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Snooker Club.

Titles and achievements

References

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