Rebecca Kenna

Rebecca Kenna
birthday	January 11, 1989
place of birth	Keighley
nationality	England
Success in snooker
Active time	since 2016
World championships	2 × semi-finals
National championships	1 × vice champion
Success in English Billiards
Active time	since 2016
World championships	1 × Vice World Championship

Rebecca Kenna (born January 11, 1989 in Keighley ) is an English English billiards and snooker player . In 2018 she became vice world champion in billiards .

Career

In the mid-2010s, Kenna first appeared on the international scene in both billiards and snooker. In 2016 she made it to the semi-finals of the Snooker World Championship . It was only her second participation in the women's main tour after the Eden Classics shortly before. In 2018 Kenna was able to count three finals, including the LITEtask UK Women's Snooker Championship in September, in which she beat eight-time tournament winner and record world champion Reanne Evans 3-2 in the round of 16. She survived the semifinals against the Thai Nutcharut Wongharuthai and only had to admit defeat to the reigning world champion Ng On Yee from Hong Kong 4-1 in the final . In February 2018 she reached number 3 in the snooker world rankings.

In October of that year she became vice world champion in billiards. In the final she was defeated by the English record winner Emma Bonney with 209: 329. Nevertheless, it was her greatest success so far.

Kenna has been the WPBSA's official level 2 coach in snooker since 2017 .

Game ban due to "men-only policy"

The Snooker Main Tour is deliberately designed as a "mixed gender" series of events by the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA) in the interests of equal rights. Even so, Kenna fell victim to antiquated discriminatory practices in March 2019. The WPBSA / WWS did not disclose which incident it is exactly. According to the BBC, there are still some clubs in their hometown of Keighley, of all places, that have an antiquated “men only” policy and that banned them from playing in the league. She then had to cancel a match that had already started. In the course of this, she left the local league. Alan Speak, committee member of the league, commented:

“There's nothing we can do to overturn the decisions. If we lose two of these clubs [with the men-only policies] we would lose four teams and we can't afford to lose four teams otherwise we would have no league. "

“There is nothing we can do to reverse this decision. If we lose two of these clubs (with men-only polotics), we lose four teams. But we cannot afford to lose four teams because otherwise we would no longer have a league. "

- Alan Speak, League Committee Member : BBC News

Both the WPBSA and the World Women's Snooker (WWS) distanced themselves from it and condemned the event. Both associations excluded such clubs from hosting international tournaments until they demonstrated their ability to achieve equality.

Record world champion Reanne Evans reported to "BBC Radio 4" that she was only prevented from entering a pool hall for the same reason last February.

successes

English billiards

• English Women's World Billiards Championship : 2018

snooker

• Connie Gogh Trophy: 2017
• LITEtask UK Women's Championship: 2018
• Eden Women's Masters: 2018
• Yorkshire Ladies Snooker Championships: 2018

Web links

• The Level 2 certificate in snooker - WPBSA World Snooker Coach ( Memento from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Reanne Evans vs. Rebecca Kenna (Final) - November 25, 2018 on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rebecca Kenna. Player profile. Snooker.org, accessed August 28, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Player Profile - Rebecca Kenna. World Women's Snooker (WWS) on November 29, 2018, archived from the original on January 28, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Matt Huart: Rebecca on the Rise. WWS, December 29, 2018, archived from the original on August 28, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Lite Task UK Women's Championship. Results. Snooker.org, September 16, 2018, archived from the original on September 28, 2018 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
5. ↑ 2018 World Women's Championship. World Billiards / WLBS , October 25, 2018, archived from the original on August 5, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b} 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Snooker Coaching. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA), April 2017, archived from the original on August 28, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Matt Huart: WWS Statement: Rebecca Kenna. WWS, 2019, archived from the original on August 28, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Rebecca Kenna quits snooker league over 'men-only' rule. BBC News (online) March 26, 2019, archived from the original on March 27, 2019 ; accessed on August 28, 2019 .