Maria Catalano (born 27 February 1982) is an

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snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

player.

Career

In the 2007 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough National Championship. In December 2002, she was ranked number four in the world. She was ranked world number one for the 2013–14 season. In 2016 she described her ambition to win the

Women's World 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 ...

, to date she has been runner-up five times, the most recently in 2018. Catalano is a cousin of men's snooker champion

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. In May 2022 she became the first woman to play in the

World Seniors Championship The World Seniors Championship is an invitational seniors snooker tournament which has been played under different formats. As of 2020 the minimum age is 40, but it was 45 in 2011 and 2012. History The event was first held in 1991 with 16 pla ...

, at the

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Performance timeline

World Women's Snooker

Titles and achievements

References

External links

Profile on Global Snooker
{{DEFAULTSORT:Catalano, Maria 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Dudley English snooker players English people of Sicilian descent Female snooker players