Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional
pool
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,
snooker and
English billiards
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player.
Career
Fisher grew up in
South Elmsall, near
Pontefract
Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wak ...
, 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's game in 2003, abandoning all major women tournaments, Fisher saw her choices as getting a full-time job or switching to nine-ball pool. She chose to switch to pool and moved to the United States to play on the
Women's Professional Billiard Association
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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 Pro ...
),
joining fellow former women's snooker players
Allison Fisher
Allison Fisher (born 24 February 1968) is an English professional pool and former professional snooker player.
Biography
Fisher was born on 24 February 1968 in Cheshunt and grew up in Tonbridge, Kent and lived later in Peacehaven, East Susse ...
and
Karen Corr
Karen Corr (born 10 November 1969) is a Northern Irish professional pool and former snooker and English billiards player. She was inducted in the BCA Hall of Fame in 2012.
Early life
Corr was born on 10 November 1969 in Ballymoney, Northern Ir ...
.
After being in the top 10 women players for two years, and winning the San Diego Classic for three years running (2005–2007), Fisher achieved the No. 1 ranking in world women's pool in August 2008, winning the US Open Championship.
Since then, she has gone on to win the women's divisions in the 2009
International Tournament of Champions and
U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship
The U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current form in 1976. The U.S. Open is one of the most sought-after titles in nine-ball and in pool generally. Traditionally, winners of ...
; the 2011
World Ten-ball Championship
The WPA World Ten-ball Championship is a professional ten-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). The event was first held in 2008 in the Philippines, followed by playings there in 2009 and 2011. After not bei ...
; 2012
WPA Nine-ball World Championship
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(and WPA Player of the Year), among other titles.
Tournament wins
All are first-place wins, in women's divisions, unless otherwise noted.
Snooker
* Home Internationals (with team England) 2002 and 2003
English billiards
Pool
References
External links
Player profile at Women's Professional Billiard AssociationPlayer profile at AZBilliardsKelly Fisher's What's in the Case? video by Inside POOL Magazine
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1978 births
Living people
English players of English billiards
English snooker players
English pool players
Female players of English billiards
Female pool players
Female snooker players
People from South Elmsall
Sportspeople from West Yorkshire
World Games gold medalists
World Games bronze medalists
Competitors at the 2013 World Games
Competitors at the 2022 World Games
World champions in English billiards