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Kristina Tkach

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Kristina Tkach is a Russian professional pool player, born in Moscow on 19 January 1999. She began playing in 2008 and became a dominant junior, winning the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship and a total of nine Junior European titles. As an adult she is a four time European champion, taking the eight-ball title in 2016 and 2019 and straight pool in 2017 and 2019, and she reached the top of the Euro Tour rankings in 2016 after winning the North Cyprus Open, the first of her eight Euro Tour events. After moving her base to the United States in 2021 she joined the Women's Professional Billiard Association tour, won the American Straight Pool Championship in 2022, and in November 2024 won the WPA Women's World Ten-ball Championship by beating Seo Seoa in the final. Billiards Digest named her its 2024 female player of the year, and she lost the 2025 Women's World Nine-ball final to Seo.

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1999 1
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Female 1
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5+ 1
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is a Russian professional pool player
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    romanized: Kristina Tkach; born 19 January 1999)
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    Tkach won the 2024 WPA Women's World Ten-ball Championship
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    having won eight events beginning with the 2016 North Cyprus Open
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    is a Russian professional pool player
  • Competed In: World Games, Career, Euro Tour number 1
    she qualified for the nine-ball Competition the World Games 2017
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