Wendy Jans

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Wendy Jans
birthday 14th June 1983 (age 37)
place of birth Bree
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Nickname (s) Wonderful Wendy
Highest break 136
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place -

Wendy Jans (born June 14, 1983 in Bree ) is a Belgian snooker player .

Career

Jans learned to play billiards at the De Kaaihoeve snooker club , which is owned by her father. She started playing in 1994 and became the youngest player to win the Belgian championship in 1998. The following year she won the Continental Cup and came second in the European Championship. In the following years she became one of the leading players on the European continent and was able to compete with competitors from the British Isles. From 1999 she was five times in a row in the final of the European Championship , but was subject to Kelly Fisher every time . In 2003 she became the first non-British woman to win a world ranking tournament with the Scottish Open . At the IBSF Amateur Snooker World Championship , she was in the final five times in a row from 2003 and won the title in 2006. In 2004 she won the European Championship three times in a row. In the early years she was mostly in the shadow of her overpowering English competitors Kelly Fisher and Reanne Evans . This only changed in the 2010s. From 2009 she became a serial winner at the European Championships and is a record holder with eleven wins. In 2012 she became world champion for the second time and was able to defend her position as the world's best player in the five following years. With eleven finals and seven titles, she is the most successful player in the history of the Amateur World Cup.

In the mid-2000s she also took part in international pool tournaments, where she also achieved good placements in Europe and the USA, including third place at the European Championships in 14/1 in 2004. However, she is particularly successful in snooker. By 2018 she was Belgian champion 16 times, she was in the European Championship finals 19 times and then won the title 12 times.

In 2010, Wendy Jans received a wildcard for the 2010 World Open , which was the first time she took part in a men's professional tournament. From 2011 she also registered for the open tournaments of the Players Tour Championship . At the Ruhr Open 2013 she survived the qualification once and moved into the main tournament.

Wendy Jans owns her own snooker club called De Maxx in Neerpelt in northern Belgium .

successes

  • IBSF World Snooker Championship : 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (2nd place in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2018)
  • EBSA European Championship : 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (2nd place in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2012)
  • Continental Cup: 1999, 2001, 2003
  • Belgian championship: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (2nd place 1999, 2011)

As of June 29, 2018

swell

  1. ↑ Wendy Jans proved her supremacy third time in row , Vivek Pathak, IBSF News, November 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Player profile , Eurotour online
  3. ^ Profiles , World Snooker Club 147 (as of 2009)
  4. ↑ Jans maakt favorietenrol waar op BK, Van Hove klopt 15-year old talent , sporza., May 28, 2018
  5. ↑ Ladies' Snooker ( Memento from November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
  6. ↑ Wendy Jans European Ladies Champion 2018 ( Memento from July 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), EBSA, June 29, 2018
  7. ↑ Belgium's Wendy Jans and Norway's Anita Rizzuti break new ground as women in snooker qualifiers for ranking event , Sporting Intelligence, August 17, 2010
  8. ↑ Wendy Jans , Greatest Breeenaar

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personal data
SURNAME Jans, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bree , Belgium