June Banks (born 4 March 1969) is an English

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...

player. She was runner-up in the 2008

World Women's Snooker Championship The World Women's Snooker Championship (known as the Women's World Open from 1976 Women's World Open (snooker), 1976 to 1981 Women's World Open (snooker), 1981 and the World Ladies Snooker Championship from 1983 Women's World Snooker Championsh ...

,World Champions
Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

Biography

Banks played in the 1987

, reaching the quarter final, where she was beaten by

Mandy Fisher Mandy Fisher (born in April 1962) is an English former professional snooker player and a World Women's Snooker Championship winner in 1984. Fisher founded the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (now known as World Women's Snooker) ...

. From 1995 to 2002, Banks was beaten in five tournament finals by Kelly Fisher. Banks' first notable tournament victory came in 2005, when she beat

Reanne Evans Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player and regular pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she has won the World Women's Sno ...

to become British Ladies Snooker Champion. Since then she has reached several other finals, and won the World Ladies Senior championship (for players aged 40 and over) for three consecutive years, 2009–2011. She was runner-up in the 2008

, losing 2–5 to the dominant player of the era, defending champion

. Evans won the title each year from 2005 to 2014, and also in 2016 and 2019. Banks practices at the

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Snooker Club.

Titles and achievements

References

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