Kelly Fisher

Kelly Fisher
Born (1978-08-25) 25 August 1978
South Elmsall, England, United Kingdom
Sport country  England
Nickname Kwikfire
Highest break 125
Medal record
Women's nine-ball
Representing  United Kingdom
World Games
2013 Cali Singles

Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool and snooker player.

Career

Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, near Pontefract, 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.[1]

Fisher won three successive Ladies World Snooker Championship between 1998 and 2000,[2] and won the title again in 2002 and 2003.[3]

In 2001, she won four successive tournaments in the ladies' divisions – the British Open, Belgian Open, LG Cup titles and the UK Championship,[4] and extended her winning streak to ten successive tournaments when she won the LG Cup in October 2002.[5]

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.[6] She chose to switch to pool and moved to the United States to play on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) nine-ball tour,[7] joining fellow former women's snooker players Allison Fisher and Karen Corr.

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.[8] Since then, she has gone on to win the women's divisions in the 2009 International Tournament of Champions (IToC) and US Open; the 2010 IToC; the 2011 World Ten-ball Championship; 2012 WPA Nine-ball World Championship (and WPA Player of the Year); the 2013 IToC and WPA Nine-ball WC; and 2015 IToC, among other titles.[8]

Tournament wins

All are first-place wins, in women's divisions, unless otherwise noted.

Snooker

Professional

  • Connie Gough Memorial – 1994, 1999
  • James Brooks Classic – 1994, 1997
  • Academy Fork Lift – 1995
  • Halstead Ladies Classic – 1995
  • M-Tech Ladies Classic – 1995
  • Bailey Homes – 1996
  • Ladies Regal Scottish – 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002
  • Ladies Regal Welsh – 1996, 2002, 2003
  • Applecentre Classic – 1996
  • Grand Prix (Ladies) – 1998
  • Embassy World Ladies Snooker Championship – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
  • Ladies British Open – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Ladies UK Championship – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • National Championship – 1999
  • Connie Gough National – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
  • Consultex Belgium Open – 2000
  • Ladies Regal Masters – 2000
  • European Ranking Event – 2001, 2002
  • LG Cup (Ladies) – 2001, 2002
  • Scottish Ladies Championship – 2002
  • China Billiard & Snooker Association Championship – 2012[8]

Amateur

  • EBSA European Ladies Championship – 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
  • IBSF World Ladies Championship – 2003
  • Home Internationals – 2002, 2003 (with team England)

English billiards

  • Embassy World Ladies Billiards Championship – 2001, 2003

Pool

  • WPBA San Diego Class – 2005, 2006, 2007[8]
  • WPBA Pacific Coast Classic – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008[8]
  • WPBA US Open Nine-ball Championship – 2008[8]
  • WPBA Player of the Year, 2008[8]
  • International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2009[8]
  • WPBA US Open (nine-ball) – 2009[8]
  • International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2010[8]
  • Yalin World 10-ball Championship – 2011[8]
  • WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship – 2012[8]
  • WPA World Championship – 2012[8]
  • China Open – 2012[8]
  • WPA Player of the Year – 2012[8]
  • Bronze medallist, World Games (nine-ball)[8][9][10]
  • International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2013[8]
  • Amway Cup – 2013[8]
  • International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2014[11]

References

  1. ↑ Moss, Allis (12 April 2000). "Fisher prepares for take-off". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Hodgson, Guy (24 April 2000). "White believes he can reward the public will". The Independent. Retrieved 24 April 2010. Kelly Fisher, the world No 1, took her third successive women's World Championship at the Crucible yesterday, beating Lisa Ingall, a part-time model in her first final, 4-1.
  3. ↑ Orlovac, Mark (27 April 2003). "Fisher takes title again". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 April 2010. Kelly Fisher claimed her fifth world title in six years with a simple 4-1 victory over Lisa Quick.
  4. ↑ Wilde, Jon (13 December 2001). "Higgins is shocked by Lee". The Independent. Retrieved 24 April 2010. Kelly Fisher won her fourth successive ranking tournament yesterday. Already holder of the British Open, Belgian Open and LG Cup titles, Fisher beat Lynette Horsburgh 4–1 to collect the UK Championship title in York.
  5. ↑ Yates, Phil (8 October 2002). "Higgins upset by focus on his namesake". The Times. Retrieved 24 April 2010. Kelly Fisher, the women’s world champion, extended her winning sequence to ten tournaments and 48 matches by beating Lynette Horsburgh 4-2 in the Ladies LG Cup final.
  6. ↑ Chowdhury, Saj (10 July 2003). "Women's game under threat". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 April 2010. I don't understand why they think it's okay to ditch the women," added Fisher. "Why not all stick together and go through the bad together. It seems that as long as the men's competition is okay that's what matters to the governing body. My choice now is to get a full-time job or go to America and play nine-ball pool like former world champion Allison Fisher chose to do.
  7. ↑ "Kelly Fisher". Inside POOL. 2 January 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2010. Explaining why she chose to come to the United States, Fisher said, “I was playing snooker in the U.K., which prevented me from coming over earlier. I was dominating the ladies’ circuit, then it collapsed over there. We were under the governing body of the men’s division, and they pulled the plug on the funding.” With the thought of moving to the U.S. in the back of her mind for a while, Fisher saw it was time to seriously consider it, stating “I thought I would have to get a regular job or make the move to America.”
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Player Bios: Kelly Fisher". WPBA.com. Women's Professional Billiard Association. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Billiard Sports: Women's Pool Bracket". worldgames2013.sportresult.com. World Games 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "The World Games 2013 pool event – women division". AZ Billiards. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  11. ↑ Forsyth, Jerry, ed. (9 October 2014). "Fisher over Fisher for Tournament of Champions Win". AZBilliards: The A to Z of Billiards and Pool. Phoenix, Arizona: EPPA Inc. Women's International Tournament of Champions 2014: Tournament Stories. Archived from the original on 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
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