Emma Bonney


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.
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.

English billiards

Bonney has won the World Women's Billiards Championship title a record thirteen times. Bonney won the first of her world billiards championship titles in 2000, having been runner-up in 1998.
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.
Bonney won her 13th world billiards championship, and sixth consecutive victory, in 2018. 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.
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 that she had recently bought and had only used for five hours of practice before the competition.
She was runner-up to Evans in the 2008 European Snooker Championships.
Her highest ranking in women's snooker was 1st.

Career finals

Billiards
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up11998World Women's Billiards ChampionshipKaren Corr219–403
Winner22000World Women's Billiards ChampionshipCaroline Walch218–50
Runner-up32001World Women's Billiards ChampionshipKelly Fisher219–290
Winner42002World Women's Billiards ChampionshipKelly Fisher227–196
Runner-up52003World Women's Billiards ChampionshipKelly Fisher155–299
Runner-up62006World Women's Billiards ChampionshipChitra Magimairaj164–193
Runner-up72007World Women's Billiards ChampionshipChitra Magimairaj148–187
Winner82008World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius216–119
Winner92009World Women's Billiards ChampionshipChitra Magimairaj272–118
Winner102010World Women's Billiards ChampionshipChitra Magimairaj269–220
Winner112011World Women's Billiards ChampionshipTina Owen-Sevilton202–181
Runner-up122012World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRevanna Umadevi143–201
Winner132013World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius329–207
Winner14Apr 2014World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRevanna Umadevi226–209
Winner15Oct 2014World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRevanna Umadevi237–191
Winner162015World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRochy Woods334–119
Winner172016World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRevanna Umadevi239–169
Winner182017World Women's Billiards ChampionshipEva Palmius295–185
Winner192018World Women's Billiards ChampionshipRebecca Kenna329–209

Snooker
OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Runner-up12004Connie Gough Memorial ChampionshipReanne Evans2–4
Runner-up22006World Women's Snooker ChampionshipReanne Evans3–5
Winner32008South Coast Classic
Winner42008British OpenJune Banks3–0
Runner-up52008European Snooker ChampionshipReanne Evans3–5
Runner-up62011World Women's Snooker ChampionshipReanne Evans1–5
Winner72012Southern Women's Classic championJaique Ip
Runner-up82015World Women's Snooker ChampionshipNg On-yee2–6