Kelly Fisher
 The arrival of Kelly Fisher in the United States was hard
to miss as she began a string of wins on the Chesapeake Area Tour and the
J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour, collecting WPBA qualifiers while she was at
it. Explaining why she chose to come to the United States, Fisher said, “I was
playing snooker in the U.K., which prevented me from coming over earlier. I was
dominating the ladies’ circuit, then it collapsed over there. We were under the
governing body of the men’s division, and they pulled the plug on the
funding.” With the thought of moving to the U.S. in the back of her mind for a
while, Fisher saw it was time to seriously consider it, stating “I thought I
would have to get a regular job or make the move to America.”
Making the move seemed to be the right choice for her. She arrived in the
States from the U.K. in February of this year and attributes her success here to
the great support she has received from the beginning. “One thing I’ve been
fortunate, and Val Finnie, is that we have had support from Kim Shaw since we
got here. We had a sponsorship from a pool hall when we first got here.”
Fisher tries to practice about four hours a day, focusing on cueing
action because “everything falls into place if you got that right, really.”
Getting that much practice time in is difficult now
because of Fisher’s
traveling schedule. Thanks to a sponsorship from Fury Cues she recently moved to
North Carolina from New York. “The sponsorship from Fury helps to concentrate
on the game and not worry about the financial aspect of it,” stated
Fisher.
Her ultimate ambition is to be the WPBA champion and to dominate this
ladies’ circuit, much as she did the women’s snooker circuit in the U.K. “That
will take a few years,” stated Fisher. But it is a worthy ambition indeed.
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