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{{short description|Indian snooker player}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox snooker player
| name          = Anuja Chandra-Thakur
| image         = The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Arjuna Award -2005 to Ms. Anuja Prakash Thakur for Billiards & Snooker, at a glittering function in New Delhi on August 29, 2006.jpg
| caption       = Arjuna Award in 2005 to Ms. Anuja Prakash Thakur for Billiards and Snooker
| birth_date    = {{Birth year and age|1983}}
| birth_place   = [[India]]
| Sport country = {{IND}}
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'''Anuja Chandra-Thakur''' (born 1983)<ref name="PTI">{{cite news |title=Anuja bags World Billiards crown |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=7 April 2005 |work=Rediff |agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]] |url= http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2005/apr/07bill.htm |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20050413205442/http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2005/apr/07bill.htm |archive-date=13 April 2005 |access-date=19 January 2018}}<!--Same article also at ZeeNews.India.com: http://zeenews.india.com/home/anuja-thakur-bags-world-ladies-billiards-crown_210956.html --></ref> is an Indian amateur player of [[snooker]] and [[English billiards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2006/jan/07snook.htm |title=Anuja Thakur triumphs |date=7 January 2006 |work=[[Rediff]] |access-date=5 May 2010 |archive-date=27 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227102333/http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2006/jan/07snook.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/03/stories/2007020308621800.htm |title=Alok and Anuja clinch titles |date=3 February 2007 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=5 May 2010 |archive-date=9 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409194701/http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/03/stories/2007020308621800.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She won the [[WLBSA]] [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|Ladies World Billiards Championship]] title in April 2005, in a 243–136 victory over [[Lynette Horsburgh]] of Scotland,<ref name="PTI" /><ref name="On-cue">{{cite web |first=Roshni |last=Olivera |title=On cue |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/On-cue/articleshow/1161514.cms |work=The Times of India |date=5 July 2005 |access-date=24 April 2011 |archive-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105070023/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/On-cue/articleshow/1161514.cms |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Anuja wins world crown |work=The Statesman (India) |date=8 April 2005|via=NewsBank. Retrieved 6 October 2019.}}</ref> and reached the semi-final at the [[2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship#Women|2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship]] in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]], where she was eliminated by [[Jaique Ip]] 4–2.<ref name="Scene">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Wendy Jans in class of her own  |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=27 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |issue=December 2006}}</ref>

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.

==Titles and achievements==
'''Snooker'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref.
|-
!scope="row" style="background:yellow;"| Semi-finalist
 || 1 || 2006 || [[2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship#Women|IBSF World Snooker Championship]] || [[Jaique Ip]] || 4–2 || <ref name="Scene" />
|}

'''[[English billiards]]'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref.
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
 || 1 || 2005 || [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|World Ladies Billiards Championship]] || [[Lynette Horsburgh]] || 243–136 || <ref name="PTI" /><ref name="On-cue" />
|}

==References==
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{{Women's world champions of English billiards}}

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[[Category:World champions in English billiards]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]


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