Veronika Ivanovskaia

Veronika Ivanovskaia, who also competes as Veronika Halliday, is a German professional pool player, born on February 1, 1995, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Russian immigrant parents and raised from a young age in Hanover. She began to play in 2003, won her first German championship at fifteen, became junior European eight-ball champion in 2013 and won the German Women's 8-Ball championship in 2016. She was runner-up at the 2017 Austria Open and won the eight-ball event at the 2018 European Pool Championships, her first adult European title. She plays on the Euro Tour, where she has reached five semi-finals, has competed at the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship and works as a psychologist.