Ewa Laurance
Ewa Laurance (born Ewa Svensson ; meanwhile also Ewa Mataya or Ewa Mataya Laurance ; born February 26, 1964 in Gävle ) is a Swedish pool player . She is also the author of three books on billiards.
Life
Laurance started playing billiards in her hometown of Gävle when she was 14 . A year later she won the national championship in 9-ball . Two years later, at the age of 17, she won the title in 14 and 1 endless at the 1981 European pool championship in Bern . A short time later she moved to New York City in the United States, where she married pool player Jimmy Mataya in 1982 . In reference to her Swedish origins, she is also nicknamed the Striking Viking .
In 1988 and 1991 she won the title in the US Open in 9-ball . In 1992 she graced the front page of the New York Times Magazine as the first and so far only pool player . During this time her long-term cooperation with the pool table manufacturer Brunswick began .
After their first marriage ended in divorce, she married sports host Mitch Laurence in 1994 . That same year she won the WPA Women's 9-Ball World Championship in Chicago .
In 2004 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Billiard Congress of America . In 2005 he won a title at the Women's Trick Shot Challenge in Las Vegas. In 2008, she played an exhibition performance at halftime in an NBA basketball game for the Cleveland Cavaliers .
In January 2012 she won another major title with the WPBA Masters Championship .
Fonts
- The Ewa Mataya Pool Guide (1995) - ISBN 978-0-380-77645-0 (together with Bob Brown )
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards (1998) - ISBN 978-1-59257-287-8 (with Thomas C. Shaw )
- Quick Start Guide to Pocket Billiards (2003) - ISBN 978-0-07-141520-0 (with Steve Mizerak and Jerry Forsyth )
literature
- Dagmar Harrold: "Eva Laurance", in: Touch Billard-Index , December 2012.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ strikingviking.com ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurance, Ewa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Svensson, Ewa (maiden name); Mataya, Ewa; Mataya Laurance, Ewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish pool player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gävle |