Rebecca Kenna


Rebecca Kenna is an amateur snooker and billiards player from Keighley.

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.
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.
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.
With her husband Ashley Kenna, she owns Cue Sports Yorkshire, which sells cues and accessories. She also works as snooker coach, holding a Level 2 certificate in snooker coaching. Before her marriage, she was known as Rebecca Granger.

Titles and achievements

Snooker
Billiards