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Kelly Fisher
MBE

Born	(1978-08-25) 25 August 1978 (age 46) South Elmsall, England
Sport country	England
Professional	2005

Medal record
Women's nine-ball
Representing  Great Britain
World Games
Gold	2022 Birmingham	Singles
Bronze	2013 Cali	Singles

Kelly Teresa Fisher MBE (born 25 August 1978) is a professional player from England. She is amazing at three different cue sports: pool, snooker, and English billiards. Kelly has won world championships in all three!

Kelly Fisher's Amazing Career

Kelly Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, a town near Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England. She first learned to play pool in her parents' pub. When she was 13, she started playing snooker. By the time she was 21, she was already ranked as the number one player for two years in a row.

Winning Snooker Championships

Kelly won the Ladies World Snooker Championship three times in a row. These wins were in 1998, 1999, and 2000. She then won the title again in 2002 and 2003.

In 2001, she won four tournaments back-to-back. These included the British Open and the UK Championship. She kept her winning streak going, winning ten tournaments in a row by October 2002.

Overall, Kelly won 45 ranking titles between 1991 and 2003. From 2001 to 2003, she won fifteen tournaments in a row. This was an incredible streak of 69 matches without a loss. In 2003, she made a break of 125 points at the 2003 World Women's Snooker Championship. This was a record for that event for many years. She was also the first woman to score a century break (100 points or more) in the qualifying rounds of the World Snooker Championship. She scored 106 points against Ryan Day in 2002.

In 2003, Kelly Fisher also won the first IBSF World Ladies' Championship.

Switching to Pool

Around 2003, the main group for snooker stopped supporting women's tournaments. Kelly had to choose between getting a regular job or trying a new sport. She decided to switch to nine-ball pool. She moved to the United States to play on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA Tour). Other famous women snooker players, Allison Fisher and Karen Corr, also joined the tour.

After being one of the top 10 women players for two years, Kelly started winning big. She won the San Diego Classic three times in a row (2005–2007). In August 2008, she became the number one ranked woman in pool worldwide. She achieved this by winning the US Open Championship.

Since then, Kelly has won many more titles. These include:

• The 2009 International Tournament of Champions
• The 2009 U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship
• The 2011 WPA World Ten-ball Championship
• The 2012 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship (and she was named WPA Player of the Year)

As of 2024, Kelly Fisher has been training the Hong Kong National Team.

Kelly Fisher was honored with the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award. She received this award in the 2024 New Year Honours for her great contributions to sports.

Tournament Wins and Achievements

Here are some of Kelly Fisher's first-place wins in women's divisions.

Snooker Wins

• Kelly also won the Home Internationals with the England team in 2002 and 2003.

English Billiards Wins

Pool Wins

• Billiards Digest Player of the Year: 2008, 2012, 2013
• Billiards Digest Player of the Decade: 2010-2020
• AZBilliards Player of the Year: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 2021
• Awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2022