Karen Corr

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Karen Corr
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Karen Corr
birthday November 10, 1969
place of birth Ballymoney
Nickname The Irish Invader
Professional since 1998
Biggest success
9-ball World Cup 6 × finals
Karen Corr
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Success in snooker
Active time 1990-1999
World championships 1
Success in English Billiards
Active time 1990-1999
World championships 2

Karen Corr (born November 10, 1969 in Ballymoney ) is a Northern Irish pool - and former snooker - and English billiards player.

Career

In snooker

Corr grew up with her brother near Maghera until she and her family moved to England at the age of eight. At the age of 14, she joined a snooker club with her father and brother and quickly became one of the best snooker players in England. At the age of 15 she entered a tournament in Leicester, which was the first of many.

Beginnings

After Corr had tried unsuccessfully in 1989, on the WPBSA Per Ticket Series for the professional tour in snooker to qualify, she won in 1990 with a 7: 4 victory over Stacey Hillyard the World Snooker Championship for women . A year later she had to surrender her title to Allison Fisher , but she reached the finals in the women's individual competition of the World Masters and won the tournament with a 6-2 win over Stacey Hillyard.

First professional years

For the 1991/92 season , when the professional tour opened, Corr became a professional player in snooker. However, she could only win five opening games and lost all remaining games, including Alex Borg , Mark Davis and Graham Horne . In the world rankings she was placed 375th in the following season.

In the 1992/93 season Corr was able to win two games at the Grand Prix , the Asian Open and in the qualification for the Snooker World Championship , and she also won a victory at the European Open , the British Open and the International Open . She lost all other thirteen games. On the world rankings she was able to improve by three places to 372th.

However, she drove her engagement on the tour with the 1993/94 season drastically down, when she only participated in the Benson & Hedges Championship and in qualifying for the World Snooker Championship, both times losing their opening games. On the world rankings, she slipped to 397th place.

Slow end of professional career

In the following season 1994/95 Corr did not take part in a single professional tournament, causing it to fall to 546th place. But she won the women's snooker world championship again with a 6-3 win over Kim Shaw .

With the 1995/96 season she increased the number of her tournament participation again, but she was only able to win two games at the UK Championship , the European Open and qualifying for the World Snooker Championship , and she lost the rest. On the world rankings she was able to improve by more than 100 places to 424th place.

In 1996 she reached the final of the European Snooker Championship for women , which she lost 3: 6 to Kelly Fisher , a year later Corr retaliated with exactly the same result in the final of the World Snooker Championship for women.

The next professional snooker season went a little better overall than the previous one, even if it lost its opening games in five out of seven tournaments. However, she won two games at the UK Championship and three games at the German Open , climbing to 370th place on the world rankings.

During the 1997/98 season Corr took part in only three tournaments, with the Benson & Hedges Championship and qualifying for the Snooker World Championship each two and the first event of the UK Tour won three games. At the end of the season she was listed at number 336 in the world rankings, but she did not play a single game in the following season and was still listed at world number 292 at the end of the 1998/99 season . Then she ended her professional snooker career.

The snooker career ended with several amateur successes

In 1998 Corr lost 5-0 to Kelly Fisher in the final of the women's snooker world championship . Shortly thereafter, she won the European Women's Snooker Championship with a 5-2 win over Kelly Fisher , before losing 4-2 in the final of the World Cup. Then she ended her snooker career and turned to the WPBA tour.

Career in pool

In 1998 Corr moved to the United States in America to begin a career in 9-ball . Even back when she played her first games on the Women's Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour, she was known for her precise shots and strong nerves. Corr quickly qualified for the WPBA tour and quickly rose to the top of the world, so that only six months later she was 24th in the world rankings; In 1999 she was finally fourth in the world rankings. A year later she won her first title and eventually rose to the top of the world rankings. In 2001 she was named Player of the Year by Pool & Billiard Magazine and Billiards Digest .

In the following years she won a total of 15 tournaments on the Classic Tour , four BCA Opens , three national championships and three Tournaments of Champions and one title on the Joss Northeast Tour as well as numerous other international and national tournaments. Furthermore, she was six times in the final of the 9-ball World Cup for women , once in the final of the European 8-ball championship and in the final of the 9-ball competition at the 2001 World Games , but lost in these finals. She left the professional tour in 2011 when her mother, Diane, who lived in England, became seriously ill. After her death in July 2012, she tried a new attempt, at the same time she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Billiard Congress of America .

Career in English Billiards

Corr also played English billiards in parallel to snooker, where she became world champion in 1998 and 1999 . In 1999 Kelly Fisher was her opponent again.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About. karren-corr.com, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Karen Corr. Famous Birthdays, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1989-1990 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Chris Turner: Ladies' Snooker. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1990-1991 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1991-1992 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Ron Florax: Ranking History For Karen Corr. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1992-1993 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1993-1994 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1994-1995 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1995-1996 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1997-1998 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1996-1997 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1997-1998 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1997-1998 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Karen Corr - Season 1998-1999 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Karen Corr. Black Widow Foundation , 2012, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  18. ↑ World Ladies Billiards Champions. World Billiards , June 15, 2015, archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Corr, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish pool player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1969