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Deja Vu, All Over Again

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Karen Corr became the first Women’s Professional Billiard Association player other than No. 1-ranked Allison Fisher to win back-to-back Classic Tour titles since 1997 by capturing the Spring Classic, in Alpine, Calif., April 26-29. The victory, which paid Corr $6,500, once again came against Jennifer Chen, Corr’s final opponent one month earlier at the Cuetec Cues Players Championship in Valley Forge, Pa., March 23-25.

On her path to a second consecutive TV final, No. 2-ranked Corr knocked off Kim White, 9-1, Tiffany Nelson, 9-4, Line Kjorsvik, 9-8, and Vivian Villarreal, 9-2, before her rematch with Chen. Only Gerda Hofstatter as previously been able to string together back-to-back Classic Tour stops in the last four seasons. A native of Taiwan, Chen earned $4,500 for second place.

Duchess On Top Again!

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Allison Fisher beat down her rivals with a smile.
Allison Fisher beat down her rivals with a smile.
Allison Fisher, the “Duchess of Doom” reclaimed her top ranking over the course of a single event at the Women’s Professional Billiard Association season opener, the Delta Classic at Sam’s Town Casino in Tunica, Miss., March 5-9. Fisher defeated Jeanette Lee, 7-5, in the finals while former chart-topper Karen Corr languished in ninth place. The disappearance of Corr’s 155-point lead over Fisher can be credited mostly to the precipitous 150-point drop that Corr suffered as a result of finishing ninth.

The new alternating-racks format shook up the charts some, with Corr going to the loser’s bracket care of snooker import Kim Shaw and Lee losing to come-from-nowhere Texan Kim White, both in the second round. Both Shaw and White finished unexpectedly high in the field, with formerly 28th-ranked White taking fifth place, and formerly 19th-ranked Shaw taking fourth place and making her first appearance in the television rounds.

Fisher claimed $9,000 for her win, while Lee settled for $6,500. Taiwanese starlet Jennifer Chen took home $5,000 for third place and Shaw took home $4,000 for fourth. Helena Thornfeldt tied White for fifth place and $2,800.