Emma Bonney

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Emma Bonney
Born (1976-07-13) 13 July 1976 (age 47)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Sport countryEngland
Highest ranking 1 (Women's Snooker)
Tournament wins
Ranking wins3 (Women's Snooker)
World Women's Billiards Champion 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, April 2014, October 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Emma Bonney is an English world champion player of English billiards, and snooker player. She has won the World Women's Billiards Championship title a record thirteen times.

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Emma Bonney is the only player to be ranked number 1 in the world at both snooker and billiards at the same time.

Biography

Bonney was born on 13 July 1976 in Portsmouth. [1]

English billiards

Bonney has won the World Women's Billiards Championship title a record thirteen times. [2] Bonney won the first of her world billiards championship titles in 2000, having been runner-up in 1998. [3]

On 8 April 2010, she won her fifth World Ladies Billiards title at the Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham, beating Chitra Magimairaj of India 269–220 in the final. [4]

Bonney won her 13th world billiards championship, and sixth consecutive victory, in 2018. [2] The 2019 World Women's Billiards Championship was held in Australia, and Bonney did not participate.

Snooker

Bonney has been the runner-up in the World Women's Snooker Championship three times. She lost the final of the 2006 championship to Reanne Evans 3–5. In 2011 she again to Evans, 1–5. In 2015 Bonney lost 2–6 to Ng On Yee. [5]

Bonney won two women's ranking tournaments in 2008, the South Coast Classic and the British Open. She won her third ranking tournament in 2012, the Southern Women's Classic championship, using a cue that she had recently bought and had only used for five hours of practice before the competition. [6]

She was runner-up to Evans in the 2008 European Snooker Championships. [7] [8]

Her highest ranking in women's snooker was 1st. [9]

Career finals

Billiards

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up 11998 World Women's Billiards Championship Karen Corr 219–403 [3]
Winner 22000World Women's Billiards Championship Caroline Walch 218–50 [10]
Runner-up 32001World Women's Billiards Championship Kelly Fisher 219–290 [11]
Winner 42002World Women's Billiards Championship Kelly Fisher 227–196 [12]
Runner-up 52003World Women's Billiards Championship Kelly Fisher 155–299 [13]
Runner-up 62006World Women's Billiards Championship Chitra Magimairaj 164–193 [14]
Runner-up 72007World Women's Billiards Championship Chitra Magimairaj 148–187 [15]
Winner 82008World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius216–119 [16]
Winner 92009World Women's Billiards Championship Chitra Magimairaj 272–118 [17]
Winner 102010World Women's Billiards Championship Chitra Magimairaj 269–220 [18]
Winner 112011World Women's Billiards ChampionshipTina Owen-Sevilton202–181 [19]
Runner-up 122012World Women's Billiards Championship Revanna Umadevi 143–201 [20]
Winner 132013World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius329–207 [21]
Winner 14Apr 2014World Women's Billiards Championship Revanna Umadevi 226–209 [22]
Winner 15Oct 2014World Women's Billiards Championship Revanna Umadevi 237–191 [23]
Winner 162015World Women's Billiards Championship Rochy Woods 334–119 [24]
Winner 172016World Women's Billiards Championship Revanna Umadevi 239–169 [25]
Winner 182017World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius295–185 [26]
Winner 192018World Women's Billiards Championship Rebecca Kenna 329–209 [27]

Snooker

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up 12004Connie Gough Memorial Championship Reanne Evans 2–4 [28]
Winner 22006 World Women's Snooker Championship Reanne Evans 3–5 [29]
Winner 32008South Coast Classic [30]
Winner 42008British Open June Banks 3–0 [30] [31]
Runner-up 52008European Snooker Championship Reanne Evans 3–5 [7] [8]
Runner-up 62011World Women's Snooker Championship Reanne Evans 1–5 [19]
Winner 72012Southern Women's Classic champion Jaique Ip [30]
Runner-up 82015 World Women's Snooker Championship Ng On-yee 2–6 [32]

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