Tag: Gerda Hofstatter

In round three on the winners' side of the Women's Professional Billards Tour's Cuetec Cues National 9-Ball Championship, newly elected WPBA President Kim White, ranked No. 41, upset No. 2 Karen Corr, 9-6. The year-end event, being held at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, Ore., Nov. 9-13…

There have been a few early upsets at the Women's Professional Billiard Association's Cuetec Cues U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship, being held Oct. 12-16 at the Sandia Casino in Albuquerque, N.M. Taiwanese player Hsin Huang beat No. 4-ranked Kelly Fisher, 9-5, while Megan Minerich defeated Gerda Hof…

Ewa Laurance won the second annual Women's Trick Shot Challenge, organized by Matt Braun's promotional company Billiards International and held at the ESPN Zone in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 4. Laurance beat Allison Fisher, 10-7, in the final match. Both semifinals and the final match were taped fo…

Snooker-champ-turned-9-ball-pro Kelly Fisher won the Women's Professional Billiard Association's Mueller Recreational Products West Coast Classic at Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif., Mar. 30-Apr. 3. The outcome was a shocker. It was Kelly Fisher's first pro 9-ball title, and she was joined in the tel…

[caption id="attachment_2732" align="alignright" width="150"] Julie Kelly finally broke through for a WPBA title win.[/caption]Julie Kelly has broken the Allison Fisher/Karen Corr stranglehold on Women's Professional Billiard Association titles. The ebullient Irishwoman took a 7-5 victory over pe…

For the third consecutive Classic Tour event, Karen Corr rebounded from an earlier loss to win a tournament championship. This time Corr did it at the Women’s Professional Billiard Association Midwest Classic at Palace Billiards in Villa Park, Ill., Oct. 11-14, recovering from a loss to Fisher in th…

Defending Champion Johnny Archer will have to do it the hard way if he is to repeat at the Billiard Congress of America's Pro 9-Ball tournament in Las Vegas. Archer was upset by Canadian Mario Mora, 11-8, in the opening round of the men's division, Sunday. The double-elimination format makes it "sud…

Karen Corr became the first Women's Professional Billiard Association player other than No. 1-ranked Allison Fisher to win back-to-back Classic Tour titles since 1997 by capturing the Spring Classic, in Alpine, Calif., April 26-29. The victory, which paid Corr $6,500, once again came against Jennife…