Kateryna Polovinchuk ( uk, Катерина Ігорівна Половинчук; born 24 November 1995 in
Kyiv) is a Ukrainian professional
pool player. She has won Ukrainian national championships across different disciplines 20 times, and in 2016 she was runner-up in the European
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
Championship.
Career
Pool
Kateryna Polovinchuk was born on 24 November 1995.
In June 2010, she became Ukrainian junior champion in all four disciplines (
Straight pool
Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...
,
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
,
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
,
Ten-ball). In December 2010, Polovyntschuk beat Viktorija Nahorna 6-3 and became Ukrainian champion for the first time, shortly after her 15th birthday.
In 2011 she won all four titles at the Ukrainian Junior Championship.
In 2012 she was again four times national junior champion. At the 2012 Ukrainian championship, she won the straight pool with a 75–55 final victory over Viktorija Nahorna. In nine-Ball she defended her title with a 7–1 final victory against Alina Holubjewa. Polovinchuk won in three disciplines at the 2013 Ukrainian Junior Championship. However, she lost the 10-ball final to Ljubow Schyhailowa. At the Ukrainian championship in 2013 she won the titles in straight pool, ten-ball, and for the third consecutive year in nine-ball. When she last participated in the Ukrainian Junior Championship, in 2014, she won all four championship titles for the fourth time. At the end of 2014 she became Ukrainian champion in straight pool and eight-ball after final victories against Ljubow Schyhailowa. In December 2015 she became Ukrainian champion in all disciplines, winning in all four finals against Viktorija Nahorna.
At the 2016
European Pool Championships, Polovinchuk reached the final in eight-ball, in which she lost 3–6 to
Kristina Tkach
Kristina Olegovna Tkach (; born 19 January 1999) is a Russian professional Pool (cue sports), pool player. She became the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship winner, defeating Lee Woo-jin (pool player), Lee Woo-jin in the final 9–6. ...
3–6 despite having taken a 3–1 lead.
In September 2017, she won the Kaunas Open with a 7–1 final victory against the Lithuanian Evaldas Sutkus.
She later reached the semi-finals at the Klagenfurt Open and was eliminated against
Chen Siming
Chen Siming (born 30 December 1993) is a Chinese professional pool player. Chen is best known for winning the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Championship.
Career
Chen grew up in Heilongjiang Province, China, where her parents were owners of a pool hal ...
.
At the 2017 Ukrainian Championship, she took part in three of the four competitions and reached the final three times, each time meeting Daryna Sirantschuk. After Polovinchuk had become Ukrainian champion endlessly for the sixth time in a row in straight pool and for the fourth time in a row in eight-ball, she lost 6–7 in the nine-ball final.
Snooker
In December 2014, Polovinchuk became Ukrainian champion, with a 3–2 final victory over Daryna Sirantschuk.
Personal life
Polovinchuk studied at the Economics and Business Faculty of
Mykolas Romeris University
Mykolas Romeris University ( lt, Mykolo Romerio universitetas) is an international university located with campuses in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania.
MRU cooperates closely with over 350 universities, public and private institutions, takes part ...
, graduating at the top of her class in January 2019.
Achievements
Source: tournamentservice.net
(unless otherwise stated)
Pool
European – youth
*
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
European Youth Champion (women): 2013
National Championships – girls
*Ukrainian
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
champion (girls): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
*Ukrainian
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
champion (girls): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
*Ukrainian
Ten-ball champion (girls): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
*Ukrainian
Straight pool
Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...
champion (girls): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
National Championships – women
*Ukrainian
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
champion (women): 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
*Ukrainian
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
champion: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019
*Ukrainian
Ten-ball champion (women): 2011, 2013, 2015
*Ukrainian
Straight pool
Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...
champion (women): 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Other
*Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League 2016 Stage IV (women)
*Kaunas Open – women & seniors: 2017
*Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League 2018 stage I (women)
*Pro Cup II stage (B category): 2018
*Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League 2018 stage II (women)
*Kaunas Open 2018 (Seniors)
*Mezz Cues Baltic Pool League 2018 stage IV (women)
*2019 Tete-a-Tete Casino Cup (veteran women)
Snooker
*Ukrainian champion : 2014
References
External links
Videos (kozoom.com)
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Ukrainian pool players
Female pool players
1995 births
Living people
Mykolas Romeris University alumni