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Arantxa Sanchis is an Indian female professional Billiards and Snooker player. She won the Gold medal in the Women's Team event at the inaugural IBSF World 6-Red Snooker and Team Snooker Championship in Carlow, Ireland on 6 Oct, 2013.〔()〕 It was a historic first Gold Medal for Indian Women's Snooker at a World Championship. Prior to this she has won ten National and two State Maharashtra State titles. She has created history and a record by winning four titles at a single Nationals (Indore 2008). No Indian male or female cueist has accomplished this feat. She won the National Senior Women's Billiards title in 2012 and in 2015 and the National Six Red Snooker titles in the year 2012. At 17 years of age she represented India at the World Under 21 Snooker Championship 2007 held at Goa and was a Semi- Finalist. She also represented India at the WPBSA World Billiards Championship 2012 at Leeds, UK, IBSF World Snooker Championship, Bulgaria,Nov 2012,IBSF World Snooker Championship 2013 at Daugavpils Latvia,IBSF World Team Snooker and Six Red Snooker Championship 2013 at Carlow, Ireland, IBSF World Team Snooker and Six Red Snooker Championship 2014 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,IBSF World Snooker Championship 2014 at Bangalore, India. She represents Turf Club Pune for various tournaments. ==Beginning == Diminutive Sanchis started playing Snooker in 2005 at the age of 15. It was at the Officer's Mess at prestigious College of Military Engineering, where her father was serving in the army, that she picked up the cue. She potted the first ball she aimed at. She was then studying in the X Std at the Army Public School in Pune. She would look for every opportunity and pestered her father to take her to play. She picked up the game quickly and started participating in the Annual tournament in Billiards and Snooker for the officers at CME. She won both billiards and snooker in the year 2006. She then took part in a Pune Open Snooker tournament at PYC Hindu Gymkhana in which she won the opening frame of her very first match by displaying tremendous grit in potting the last black against her older and more experienced male player. Arantxa is good at both snooker and billiards at the National level. She has had to juggle between sports and academic ever since and now juggles between work and play. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arantxa Sanchis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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