The 1988 Women's World Snooker Championship was a women's snooker tournament that took place in October 1988. It was the 1988 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in 1976.[1] Holiday Club Pontins provided prize money totalling £10,000[2] and the event was held at their resort in Brixham.[3]
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | October 1988 |
| Venue | Pontins |
| City | Brixham |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association |
| Format | Single elimination |
| Total prize fund | £10,000 |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Allison Fisher (ENG) |
| Runner-up | Ann-Marie Farren (ENG) |
| Score | 6–1 |
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The tournament was won by Allison Fisher, who lost only one frame during the event and defeated Ann-Marie Farren 6–1 in the final.[2] This was Fisher's third world snooker title, and she would go on to win a total of seven championships before focusing her efforts on pool in the United States from 1995.[1][4]
Main draw edit
| Last 16 Best of 7 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 7 frames | Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 11 frames | ||||||||||||
| Ann-Marie Farren (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Tessa Davidson (ENG)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ann-Marie Farren (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
 Karen Corr (NIR)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Karen Corr (NIR)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
 Margaret O'Driscoll (IRL)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ann-Marie Farren (ENG)
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Mandy Fisher (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Lisa Gordon (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Jean Bedford (ENG)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Lisa Gordon (ENG)
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Mandy Fisher (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Mandy Fisher (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Michelle Brown (ENG)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Ann-Marie Farren (ENG)
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Allison Fisher (ENG)
| 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Stacey Hillyard (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Allyson Ratcliffe (ENG)
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Stacey Hillyard (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
 Lynette Horsburgh (SCO)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Lynette Horsburgh (SCO)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Kim Shaw (ENG)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Stacey Hillyard (ENG)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Allison Fisher (ENG)
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Caroline Walch (ENG)
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Lisbeth Jones (DEN)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Lisbeth Jones (DEN)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Allison Fisher (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Allison Fisher (ENG)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Roberta Abbott (ENG)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
References edit
- ^ a b "History". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ a b Jones, Gaye (1988). Terry Smith (ed.). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (Sixth ed.). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. pp. 136–139. ISBN 0720719445.
- ^ "Ladies' Snooker". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Hollar, Sherman. "Allison Fisher". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Hale, Janice (1991). Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1991–92. Aylesbury: Queen Anne Press. pp. 379–381. ISBN 0356197476.