Allison Fisher

Allison Fisher is an English former professional snooker and pool player, born on 24 February 1968 in Cheshunt and raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and she is widely regarded as the greatest female pool player of all time. She started playing pool at seven and won her first world title at seventeen, and she has won more than eighty national titles and eleven world titles in total. After attempting to qualify for the men's snooker tour through the 1980s and 1990s, she moved to the United States to play the Women's Professional Billiards Association tour, where she won more than sixty titles and was top ranked from 1996 to 2001. She was nicknamed the Duchess of Doom and entered the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 2009.