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Anuja Chandra-Thakur
BornIndia
Sport country India

Anuja Chandra-Thakur is an Indian amateur player of snooker and English billiards.[1][2]

She won the WLBSA Ladies World Billiards Championship title in April 2005, in a 243–136 victory over Lynette Horsburgh of Scotland,[3][4][5] and reached the semi-final at the 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship in Amman, Jordan, where she was eliminated by In Wan-ip 4–2.

Thakur is a native of Mumbai, Maharashtra. She has won several state and national championships in both snooker and billiards. Her sister, Meenal Thakur, is also a player in both disciplines. Anuja is married to Manan Chandra, another Indian amateur billiards player.

References

  1. ^ "Anuja Thakur triumphs". Rediff. 7 January 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Alok and Anuja clinch titles". The Hindu. 3 February 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Anuja bags World Billiards crown". Rediff. PTI. 7 April 2005. Archived from the original on 13 April 2005. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  4. ^ Olivera, Roshni (5 July 2005). "On cue". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Anuja wins world crown". The Statesman (India). 8 April 2005 – via NewsBank. Retrieved 6 October 2019.