Hello,
I just received a VCD of an old Allison Fisher match from 1993. She was playing an English cue sport legend named Lee Tucker who is one of my favourite players so I thought it would be worth a look. The tournament was the Fosters European 9 ball Pool Masters (this tournament was the 1st Matchroom Sport pool event and later evolved in to the World Pool Masters).
Tournament format was 2 sets race to 4 in each one. Alternate break. At this stage Allison was still a snooker pro and she gets annihilated! Lee plays very, very well and also gets one major slice of luck in the final rack but he beats Allison 4-0, 4-0 in just under 24 minutes! In the whole match Allison pots 2 balls- one on the break and one in open play (both in the same rack) and she commits at least 4 fouls.
Just thought some of you might enjoy this match in terms of comparing her play at that stage to her play now. Maybe it was the manner of that defeat that made Allison decide to really practice and then, eventually, switch from snooker to 9 ball permanently.
If anyone wants to know where to get that match just PM me or post here and I'll let you know. Also if anyone has any other matches from the tournament (particularly Tom Storm's ones) please let me know.
Thanks,
Chris (Chrstc).
I just received a VCD of an old Allison Fisher match from 1993. She was playing an English cue sport legend named Lee Tucker who is one of my favourite players so I thought it would be worth a look. The tournament was the Fosters European 9 ball Pool Masters (this tournament was the 1st Matchroom Sport pool event and later evolved in to the World Pool Masters).
Tournament format was 2 sets race to 4 in each one. Alternate break. At this stage Allison was still a snooker pro and she gets annihilated! Lee plays very, very well and also gets one major slice of luck in the final rack but he beats Allison 4-0, 4-0 in just under 24 minutes! In the whole match Allison pots 2 balls- one on the break and one in open play (both in the same rack) and she commits at least 4 fouls.
Just thought some of you might enjoy this match in terms of comparing her play at that stage to her play now. Maybe it was the manner of that defeat that made Allison decide to really practice and then, eventually, switch from snooker to 9 ball permanently.
If anyone wants to know where to get that match just PM me or post here and I'll let you know. Also if anyone has any other matches from the tournament (particularly Tom Storm's ones) please let me know.
Thanks,
Chris (Chrstc).