Tammy Cantoni (born 25 August 1972) is an Australian semi-professional pool and snooker player.[1] She won the 1998 WPA World Nine-ball Championship (women's division), as well as national championships in women's divisions in snooker (2004) and nine-ball (8 times from 1995 to 2009). She was the runner-up in the 2009 open (mixed-gender) division of the Australian Nine-ball Championship and in 2010 was listed 56th in the World Pool Billard Association women rankings.[2]
Cantoni, who began playing pool at age 8, began tournament competition at age 19, and won the first local tournament she entered. She went on to win her first attempt at a national title, at age 22, in 1995. She was ranked the 13th top woman player in the world by the World Pool-Billiard Association in 2000. Cantoni has competed in some events classified as professional or open-to-professionals, such as WBA championships, and others classified as amateur, including those sanctioned by the IBSF.[3] The VNEA classfied her as a professional as early as 2001, if not earlier but dropped her from their pro list in 2004.
Cantoni has numerous regional women-division title, and has often represented her home country internationally. She is a three-time New South Wales state eight-ball champion (1995, 1998, 1999); NSW nine-ball champion (1999); seven-time WPA World Nine-ball Championship representative of Australia (1995–2000, 2004); representative for Australia at the 2001 World Games; eight-time Trans-Tasman Cup representative on Team Australia (1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004); five-time VNEA International Championship representative on Team Australia (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000); Amarda eight-ball champion (1993, 1995, 1997), Lord Mayor's Cup winner (1998, 1999), Christmas Shield winner (1996, 1997, 2000); 2000 winner of the Australia Day Championship (eight-ball), Millennium Cup (snooker), Easter Cup (eight-ball), and Oceania Championship (eight-ball); and 2001 Oceania Nine-ball Champion.
As of 2009, Cantoni's major cue sports titles include:
Australian 8-Ball champion (International Rules)