Tag: WPBA

[caption id="attachment_3077" align="alignright" width="150"] Ready, set, rack! WPBA President Kim White of Texas and Val Finnie of Scotland rack in the first round.[/caption]It's day two of the San Diego Classic, the third stop of the WPBA's 2006 season, and the winner's side is fraught with conten…

First-round matches are underway today, April 20, at the 2006 WPBA San Diego Classic, at Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif. Kelly Fisher won her first U.S. title at this tournament last year, when she defeated Gerda Hofstatter in the final match. Both players have returned this year and, providing t…

Allison Fisher, "The Duchess of Doom," fended off some hungry foes and battled some personal demons, but managed to pull off her 46th Women's Professional Billiard Association tournament win at the Great Lakes Classic stop of the WPBA's 2006 season, March 8-12 in Michigan City, Ind. Fisher suffer…

Rising Korean superstar Ga Young Kim won the WPBA National 9-Ball Championship, Nov. 9-13 in Lincoln City, Ore. This is Kim's second WPBA title. "I am so happy and I want to say a lot of things and I don't know how!," gushed the giddy champ, for whom English is her third language. Kim bested Vivi…

Tied to a hectic schedule and hoping to make a last big splash in the competitive arena, Ewa Laurance has decided to step down as president of the Women’s Professional Billiard Association with a full year left on her two-year term. The position will be filled after the WPBA’s board of directors …

Women's Professional Billiard Association star Ga Young Kim has had quite a week. The day that Westwood Billiards announced their sponsorship of Kim, Nov. 3, she went on to win the Women's Tournament of Champions at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. The made-for-TV event features a two-…

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…

Still struggling with a stiff neck and playing a bit out of sorts, Allison Fisher nonetheless pulled it all together in the final of the WPBA’s Midwest Classic and played nearly flawless pool to flatten challenger Helena Thornfeldt, 7-1. "That was the best I’ve played all week," the Duchess of Do…