1997 Women's World Snooker Championship

Amateur snooker championship, held 1996 and 1997 December 2019 Women's World Snooker Championship Raunds Cue Sports Club and Terry Griffiths Matchroom Northamptonshire and Llanelli United Kingdom World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association Single elimination 87 (Karen Corr) Karen Corr Kelly Fisher 6–3 1995 1998 The 1997 World Women's Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament held in 1997. Tournament summary The tournament started as the 1996 World Championship, but due to delays in the scheduling of the later rounds, it became the 1997 Championship. It was promoted by Barry Hearn who had been promoting the Women's world championship since 1990. The defending champion was Karen Corr. There were 52 players who entered the tournament. Allison Fisher who had won the title seven times, most recently in 1994, did not enter as she has moved to the United States where she had embarked on a successful pool career. 1984 amateur champion and five-times runner-up Stacey Hillyard had retired from competition and so was another non-participant. The original schedule was for the quarter-finals onwards to be held in India, as they had been in 1994 and 1995, from 16 to 19 September 1996, but eventually the final rounds took place in Llanelli, with the semi-finals and final not happening until well into 1997. This was the last women's world snooker championship to be held before the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association amalgamated with the WPBSA later in 1997. 24 October 1997 Young Stevens silences Parrott The Guardian B11 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-yssp/175601500/ Newspapers.com Rounds 1 to 4 The tournament started as the 1996 World Championship. The first four rounds took place at Raunds Cue Sports Club, Northamptonshire, to decide the eight players that would go on to contest the quarter-finals onwards, which were expected to be played in Bombay in mid-September 1996. Defending champion Karen Corr won her first match without losing a frame but won only on the final black in the deciding frame of her match against Lynette Horsburgh. Second seed Kelly Fisher and 1995 runner-up Kim Shaw both won both of their matches 4–0. Mary Talbot, ranked 26th, was a surprising quarter-finalist, beating 7th seed Sarah Smith and 12th ranked player Helen Audus. The highest break in the main qualifying was a 77 by Ann-Marie Farren. A plate competition was held for players who did not qualify to the quarter-finals and was won by Horsburgh, who made a break of 100 in the first round of the plate competition. Mary Talbot's passage to India Snooker Scene 14 Everton's News Agency September 1996 Quarter-finals Following postponements of the final stages and a lack of response from promoter Barry Hearn's partner in India, it was decided to hold the quarter-finals at the Terry Griffiths Matchroom, Llanelli, and they took place in November 1996. Corr whitewashed 1984 professional champion Mandy Fisher 4–0. Banks saw off 1987 champion Farren 4–2, and Lisa Quick beat Shaw 4–1. Fisher's match with Talbot was delayed due to Talbot's illness, with Fisher winning 4–1. Meanwhile, Hearn requested the termination of his contract with the WLBSA to promote the event in future. World title on hold Snooker Scene 37 Everton's News Agency December 1996 Semi-finals and Final The semi-finals and final were eventually scheduled to be held in Llanelli in mid-1997, following a continued lack of communication from Hearn's partner in India. Corr made the highest break of the competition, 87, and three other breaks over 30 in overcoming Banks 5–0. Quick won the first frame against Fisher, but no more, losing 1–5. The final between Corr and Fisher was closely contested until 3–3 but then Corr won three frames in a row to take her third world title. The tournament finished some eleven months after the start of the qualifying matches, and was the end of promoter Hearn's relationship with women's snooker that stretched back to 1990. Karen Corr wins 1996 world title a little late Snooker Scene 12–13 Everton's News Agency July 1997 This was the last world championship to be held before the amalgamation of the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association with the WPBSA a few months later. The intention was that major finals for women should be played at the same venues as the men's events, for example the women's world championship final being held at the Crucible Theatre during the World Snooker Championship. Results Source: Snooker Scene First round At Raunds Cue Sports Club. Matches were best-of-7 frames. Score SCO Lynette Horsburgh 4–2 Zena Latcham ENGAUS Kathy Parashis 4–1 Valerie Finnie SCO ENG Clare Rodgers 4–0 Vicki Revell ENG ENG Natalie Chatfield 4–0 Jane O'Neill ENG Second round to Final Second roundBest-of-7 framesRaunds Cue Sports Club Third roundBest-of-7 framesRaunds Cue Sports Club Fourth roundBest-of-7 framesRaunds Cue Sports Club Quarter-finalsBest-of-7 framesTerry Griffiths Matchroom Semi-finalsBest-of-9 framesTerry Griffiths Matchroom FinalBest-of-11 framesTerry Griffiths Matchroom ENG Maureen Twomey 4 ENG Mary Hawkes 2 ENG Beverley Hipwell 0 SCO Lynette Horsburgh 4 ENG Sue Parrish 4 ENG Lisa Ingall 2 ENG Jan Hughes 4 ENG Marianne Lazarides 1 ENG Sherron Audus 4 IRL Greta Browne 3 ENG Dawn Wells 4 SCO Jackie Stewart 0 BEL Valerie Van Bellinghen 0 AUS Kathy Parashis 4 FIN Riitta Koskinen 4 ENG Tracey Warren 3 SCO Julie Gillespie 4 ENG Louise Leskevicius 0 ENG Katie Henrick 0 ENG Clare Rodgers 4 ENG Martina Lumsden 4 ENG Doreen Buckton 0 ENG Gaye Jones 4 FIN Tuija Tiihonen 0 ENG Mary Talbot 4 ENG Nicola Barker 0 ENG Rachel Ozier w.o. CAN Anita Morra scr. ENG Liz Jones 3 ENG Natalie Chatfield 4 ENG Lisa Gordon 4 ENG Sue Selby 1 NIR Karen Corr 4 ENG Maureen Twomey 0 ENG Emma Bonney 1 SCO Lynette Horsburgh 4 ENG Caroline Walch 3 ENG Sue Parrish 4 ENG Mandy Fisher 4 ENG Jan Hughes 1 ENG June Banks 4 ENG Sherron Audus 1 ENG Julie Billings 1 ENG Dawn Wells 4 SCO Michelle Brown 0 AUS Kathy Parashis 4 ENG Ann-Marie Farren 4 FIN Riitta Koskinen 0 ENG Kim Shaw 4 SCO Julie Gillespie 0 ENG Jenny Poulter 4 ENG Clare Rodgers 0 IRL Julie Kelly 4 ENG Martina Lumsden 1 ENG Lisa Quick 4 ENG Gaye Jones 1 ENG Sarah Smith 3 ENG Mary Talbot 4 ENG Helen Audus 4 ENG Rachel Ozier 0 ENG Laura Stoddard 4 ENG Natalie Chatfield 1 ENG Kelly Fisher 4 ENG Lisa Gordon 0 NIR Karen Corr 4 SCO Lynette Horsburgh 3 ENG Sue Parrish 2 ENG Mandy Fisher 4 ENG June Banks 4 ENG Dawn Wells 0 AUS Kathy Parashis 0 ENG Ann-Marie Farren 4 ENG Kim Shaw 4 ENG Jenny Poulter 0 IRL Julie Kelly 1 ENG Lisa Quick 4 ENG Mary Talbot 4 ENG Helen Audus 1 ENG Laura Stoddard 0 ENG Kelly Fisher 4 NIR Karen Corr 4 ENG Mandy Fisher 0 ENG June Banks 4 ENG Ann-Marie Farren 2 ENG Kim Shaw 1 ENG Lisa Quick 4 ENG Mary Talbot 1 ENG Kelly Fisher 4 NIR Karen Corr 5 ENG June Banks 0 ENG Kelly Fisher 5 ENG Lisa Quick 1 NIR Karen Corr 6 ENG Kelly Fisher 3 Final Final: Best-of-11 framesTerry Griffiths Matchroom, Llanelli Karen Corr NIR 6–3 Kelly Fisher ENGFrame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Karen Corr 30+ Breaks 41- 74- 63- 27- 67- 41- 88- 47- 105(33,58) Kelly Fisher 30+ Breaks 53- 32- 49(32) 71(31) 43- 58- 52- 25- 3- Frames won (Corr first) 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 3–2 3–3 4–3 5–3 6–358 Highest break32 1 50+ breaks 1 30+ breaks 2Karen Corr wins the 1997 World Women's Snooker Championship References Category:World Women's Snooker Championship Category:1997 in snooker Category:1997 in women's sport Category:1997 in English sport Category:International sports competitions hosted by England