By Patrick Sampey
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onday, July 25th, 2022 (11:32am) – Good morning, fellow Billiards Aficionados! Patrick Sampey here, writing for SPM (Sneaky Pete Mafia) magazine. What a treat we have for you today, or tonight, wherever you are in the world. We at SPM have had the pleasure to be able to interview none other than world #1 ranked Kelly Fisher. Some quick facts and stats on Fisher before we begin: Fisher was born on August 25th, 1978, in South Elmsall, England, is 43 years young, began playing snooker at age 12, is a five-time world snooker champion (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003), came to the USA to pursue a career in professional pool in 2003, has accumulated 5 back-toback major tournament wins in 2022 alone, and just recently won the Gold medal for women’s 9-ball in the World Games on July 16th, Saturday night; the World Games is an offshoot of the Olympic games, held every 4 years, featuring games not included in the Olympics, pool being one of their events. Fisher’s 5 major women’s world pool events were the 2022 WPBA Ashton Twins Classic,
the Predator Germany Women’s Open, the 2022 Women’s NineBall Pro Players Championship, the WPBA Predator Event, and the WPBA Northern Lights Classic. She won those events in succession this year, which is an incredible run. Kelly Fisher currently stands atop women’s professional pool worldwide, and at 43, highlights the fact that age is just a number. Pool can be played at the highest level well beyond other sports that require excellent athletic training, like basketball or football. However, we still have Tom Brady, slightly over 40 and still doing it, arguably the world’s greatest quarterback to ever live. It is debatable. But suffice it to say, Fisher has strived for excellence her entire career in billiards, both in snooker and now in pool, and has shown to be a rare breed indeed, having mastered snooker, Kung Fu, and pool. How does her mastery of martial art such as Kung Fu come into play with her snooker and pool games and her success in each? Glad you asked. Fisher concludes that it was her success in Kung Fu, precisely the mental toughness it gave her, that gives her such a 22
