Rebecca Kenna
English Snooker and billiards player
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Rebecca Kenna (née Granger; born 11 January 1989) is an English former professional snooker player from Keighley. She defeated Anna Prysazhnuka 4–1 in the final to win the 2024 Women's EBSA European Snooker Championship. She was runner-up in the 2018 World Ladies Billiards Championship.[1] Kenna earned a tour card for the professional World Snooker Tour from 2022 to 2024.
England| Born | 11 January 1989 |
|---|---|
| Sport country | England |
| Professional | 2022–2024 |
| Highest ranking | World Women's Snooker: 3[1] |
Biography
Kenna started playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2016, and reached the semi-finals of the world championship at her first attempt. She ended her first full season ranked sixth, having reached the semi-finals of the world championship again, and recorded a victory over multiple world championship title holder Reanne Evans in the course of reaching the final of the 2017 Connie Gough Trophy.[1]
In 2018, at her first billiards tournament, she reached the final of the World Women's Billiards Championship, losing 209–329 to Emma Bonney. This was Bonney's sixth consecutive world championship win, and her thirteenth overall.[2][3]
Kenna was one of four players selected to take part in the Women's Tour Championship 2019, to be held at the Crucible Theatre in August 2019, the first women's matches to take place at the iconic snooker venue for 16 years.[4]
She is co-owner of Cue Sports Yorkshire, which sells cues and accessories.[1][5] She also works as a snooker coach, holding a Level 2 certificate in snooker coaching.[6]
From the start of the 2022/23 snooker season, Kenna earnt a place on the professional snooker tour for two years, after finishing fourth in the women's rankings.[7]
At the 2024 Women's EBSA European Snooker Championship, Kenna eliminated Ewelina Piślewska, Wendy Jans, and Diana Stateczny to reach the final, where she achieved a 4–1 victory against reigning champion Anna Prysazhnuka to take the title.[8][9] Partnering Tessa Davidson, she also won the European Women's Team title.[10][11]
In 2025 she lost the individual EBSA title to Prysazhnuka, who defeated her 4-3 in the final.[12]
Personal life
Performance and rankings timeline
World Snooker Tour
| Tournament | 2020/ 21 |
2021/ 22 |
2022/ 23 |
2023/ 24 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[15][nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | 98 | |||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | A | A | A | RR | |||||
| European Masters | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| British Open | NH | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| English Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Wuhan Open | Not Held | LQ | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| International Championship | Not Held | LQ | |||||||
| UK Championship | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Shoot Out | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | |||||
| Scottish Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| German Masters | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Welsh Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| World Open | Not Held | LQ | |||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| World Championship | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| WST Classic | Not Held | 1R | NH | ||||||
| Former non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Six-red World Championship | Not Held | LQ | NH | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
World Women's Snooker
| Tournament[16] | 2015/ 16 |
2016/ 17 |
2017/ 18 |
2018/ 19 |
2019/ 20 |
2021/ 22 |
2022/ 23 |
2023/ 24 |
2024/ 25 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| UK Championship | A | QF | QF | F | QF | F | SF | QF | SF | ||||||
| US Open | Tournament Not Held | F | SF | SF | |||||||||||
| Australian Open | Not Held | A | A | NH | A | A | A | ||||||||
| Scottish Open | Tournament Not Held | SF | Not Held | ||||||||||||
| Masters | A | 1R | SF | F | 1R | SF | SF | SF | QF | ||||||
| WSF Women's Championship | Not Held | SF | |||||||||||||
| Belgian Open | Not Held | QF | QF | NH | SF | QF | QF | ||||||||
| Asia-Pacific Championship | Tournament Not Held | A | NH | ||||||||||||
| World Championship | SF | SF | SF | QF | NH | SF | QF | 2R | |||||||
| British Open | A | NH | SF | Not Held | SF | SF | SF | ||||||||
| Former tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Eden Classic | QF | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||
| Connie Gough Trophy | A | F | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||
| Paul Hunter Classic | NH | RR | SF | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||
| European Masters | Not Held | SF | Not Held | ||||||||||||
| 10-Red World Championship | Not Held | QF | QF | QF | Not Held | ||||||||||
| 6-Red World Championship | Not Held | SF | 2R | SF | Not Held | ||||||||||
| Tour Championship | Tournament Not Held | SF | Not Held | ||||||||||||
| Winchester Open | Tournament Not Held | QF | NH | ||||||||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
Career finals
Women's snooker finals
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1 | 2017 | Connie Gough Trophy | Maria Catalano (ENG) | 2–4 | [17][18] |
| Runner-up | 2 | 2018 | LITEtask UK Women's Championship |  Ng On-yee (HKG) | 1–4 | [19] |
| Runner-up | 3 | 2018 | Eden Women's Masters | Reanne Evans (ENG) | 0–4 | [20] |
| Winner | 1 | 2018 | Yorkshire Ladies Snooker Championship | Shannon Metcalf (ENG) | 2–0 | [21] |
| Winner | 2 | 2019 | Hong Kong Women’s Masters |  Bai Yulu (CHN) | 4–1 | [22] |
| Winner | 3 | 2019 | Yorkshire Ladies Snooker Championship | Shannon Metcalf (ENG) | 3–0 | [23] |
| Runner-up | 4 | 2020 | EPSB English Women's Snooker Championship | Emma Parker (ENG) | 0–2 | [24] |
| Winner | 4 | 2022 | EPSB English Women's Snooker Championship | Jamie Hunter (ENG) | 4–3 | [25] |
| Runner-up | 5 | 2022 | US Women's Open | Jamie Hunter (ENG) | 1–4 | [26] |
| Winner | 5 | 2024 | EPSB English Women's Snooker Championship | Tessa Davidson (ENG) | 3–2 | [27] |
| Winner | 6 | 2024 | 2024/2025 English Women's Tour Event 1 | Ellise Scott (ENG) | 2–0 | [27] |
| Winner | 7 | 2024 | EBSA European Snooker Championship |  Anna Prysazhnuka (LAT) | 4–1 | [8] |
| Winner | 8 | 2025 | EPSB English Women's Snooker Championship | Ellise Scott (ENG) | 3–0 | [28] |
| Winner | 9 | 2025 | Commonwealth Women's Snooker Championship |  Chau Audrey (SIN) | 2–0 | [29] |
| Runner-up | 6 | 2025 | EBSA European Snooker Championship | Anna Prysazhnuka (LAT) | 3–4 | [12] |
Team snooker finals
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Team/partner | Opponent in the final | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1 | 2017 | WWS World Mixed Doubles Championship | Dylan Mitchell | Sanderson Lam Katrina Wan | 1–3 | [30] |
| Runner-up | 2 | 2022 | World Mixed Doubles | Mark Selby |  Neil Robertson Nutcharut Wongharuthai | 2–4 | [31] |
| Runner-up | 3 | 2023 | WWS Snooker World Cup | Reanne Evans |  Amee Kamani Anupama Ramachandran | 3–4 | [32] |
| Runner-up | 4 | 2024 | World Mixed Doubles (2) | Mark Selby |  Luca Brecel Reanne Evans | 2–4 | [33] |
| Winner | 1 | 2024 | EBSA Women's Team | Tessa Davidson |  Vania Franco Sarah Rocha | 3–2 | [10][11] |
| Winner | 2 | 2025 | EBSA Women's Team | Ellise Scott |  Deu Va Rachell Enfroy | 3–2 | [34] |
Billiards finals: 1
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1 | 2018 | World Ladies Billiards Championship | Emma Bonney | 209–329 | [35][2] |