Chitra Magimairaj

Chitra Magimairaj
birthday	April 7, 1973
place of birth	Bangalore ,
nationality	India
Success in snooker
World championships	1
Highest break	91 (Australian Open, Sydney, 2008)
Success in English Billiards
World championships	2
Highest series	49

Chitra Magimairaj (born April 7, 1973 in Bangalore , India ) is an Indian professional English billiards , snooker and pool player . She is a two-time English billiards world champion ( WLBSA ), two-time snooker world champion (seniors) and two-time Indian pool champion. She was also the national amateur champion in cricket and field hockey before she started playing pool.

Private

Born in Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka , Magimairaj went to St. Anne's Girls High School and completed her school career at Teresina College in Mysore . At a young age, she first played cricket and field hockey before switching to billiards.

She is a member of the Indian Karnataka State Billiards Association .

Career

Chitra Magimairaj was able to achieve her first international success in 2006 by winning the Billiards World Cup, in 2007 she became Indian 9-ball champion for the first time and again world champion in billiards. Two finals in 2009 and 2010 followed. In 2008 she won the Australian Open in Snooker (women, seniors) in Sydney. In 2014 she won the Seniors Snooker World Championship in Leeds after beating Alena Asmolava of Belarus in the final. In 2016, she was again in the final in Leeds, where she beat Englishwoman Sharon Kaur 3-0. She is the first Indian woman to qualify and win medals for the Asian Games and Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games , to become World Champion of Billiards and Snooker and to win the Australian Open (Snooker, Seniors), both in singles and also in a team.

Other sports

Magimairaj played cricket for the "Falcon Sports Club" under the direction of Shanta Rangaswamy in the 1980s and represented Karnataka , which won the "South Zone Cricket Championship" in 1989.

For seven years she played field hockey for "Sports Hostel Mysore" and represented Karnataka at the sub-junior , junior and senior nationals in the "All-India Inter-University Invitation Cup" and at the "South Zone Championship".

successes

Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to women's tournaments.

International

• 2006 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (Cambridge)
• 2007 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (Cambridge, UK)
• 2008 Australian Open Snooker Championship (Sydney),
• 2008 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (UK),
• 2009 Australian Open Snooker Championship (Sydney),
• 2009 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (UK),
• 2010 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (UK),
• 2010 Australian Open Snooker Championship (Sydney),
• 2011 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (UK),
• 2012 Australian Open Snooker Championship (Sydney),
• 2012 WLBSA Women's English Billiards World Championship (UK),
• 2013 Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games - Six-Red-Snooker (South Korea),
• 2013 IBSF World Team Snooker Championship (Carlow, Ireland),
• 2013 IBSF Women's World Snooker Championship (Latvia),
• 2014 WLBSA World Women's Senior Snooker Championship,
• 2016 WLBSA World Women's Senior Snooker Championship,
• 2018 European Women's Masters (Seniors) (Belgium)
• 2019 World Women's Snooker Championship (Challenge Cup, Thailand)

Sources (unless otherwise stated):

National

• 2006 Indian 8-Ball Championship,
• 2007 Indian 9-Ball Championship,
• 2010 Indian 9 Ball Championship,
• 2011 Indian Six Red Snooker Championship ,
• 2012 Indian Snooker Championship ,
• 2012 Indian Six Red Snooker Championship,
• 2013 Indian Snooker Championship,
• 2013 Indian Billiards Championship,
• 2016 Indian 9-Ball Championship,

Honors

• 2007 Mysore Dasara Award
• 2007 Kempegowda Award
• 2007 Ekalavya Award
• 2008 Zee Excellence Award
• 2008 Award for Best Sports Person - Sports Writers Association (SWAA)

Web links

• Indian cueist Chitra Magimairaj nominated for Arjuna Award ( Memento from July 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} player profile. CueSportsIndia, archived from the original on September 4, 2017 ; accessed on August 27, 2019 (English).  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} World Ladies Billiards Champions. World Billiards , June 15, 2015, archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Sports Shorts: Chitra Magimairaj wins World women's senior snooker. RediffSports / Cue Sports India, April 22, 2014, archived from the original on April 25, 2014 ; accessed on August 27, 2019 (English).  
4. ↑ Chitra wins world title. (No longer available online.) The Statesman, April 23, 2014, archived from the original on May 20, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2014 (English).  
5. ↑ Player Chitra Magimairaj's matches in the 2016 World Ladies Seniors Championship. World Women's Snooker (WWS), March 31, 2016, accessed August 27, 2019 .  
6. ↑ IBSF Snooker Championships Women - Daugavpils / Latvia 2013. In: esnooker.pl. International Billiards & Snooker Federation , accessed November 27, 2018 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Snooker placements. Snookerscores - World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA), accessed on August 27, 2019 .  
8. ↑ Indian National 9Ball Swimming Championships 2016. Cue Sports India, archived from the original on September 6, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (English).