Kelly "Kwik Fire" Fisher
Professional Pocket Billiards & Snooker Player Team Captain BTR, UKKelly is an English professional pool and snooker player. She 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.
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 (WPBA) nine-ball tour, 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.
Titles
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
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
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[edit]
Embassy World Ladies Billiards Championship – 2001, 2003
WPBA Pacific Coast Classic – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
WPBA US Open Nine-ball Championship – 2008
WPBA Player of the Year, 2008
International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2009
WPBA US Open (nine-ball) – 2009
International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2010
Yalin World 10-ball Championship – 2011
WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship – 2012
WPA World Championship – 2012
China Open – 2012
WPA Player of the Year – 2012
Bronze medallist, World Games (nine-ball)
International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2013 Amway Cup – 2013
International Tournament of Champions (nine-ball) – 2014
