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{{Short description|Indian snooker, billiards, and pool player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox snooker player
| name = Chitra Magimairaj
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|4|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[India]]
| Sport country = {{IND}}
| Nickname = Sports
| Professional =
| High ranking = World ranking 10
| Official maximums =
| Best finish =
| Ranking wins =
| Other wins =
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{{MedalTableTop|name=no|medals=}}
{{MedalSport | Women's [[snooker]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{IND}} }}
{{MedalCompetition| World Women's Senior Snooker Championship}}
{{MedalGold| Individual competition |2014}}
{{MedalGold| Individual competition |2016}}
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'''Chitra Magimairaj''' (born 7 April 1973,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ashgabat2017.com/atos/ashgabat17/eng/zb/engzb_billiard-sports-athlete-profile-n144334-magimairajan-chitra.htm |title=Athlete Profile: MAGIMAIRAJAN Chitra |last= |first= |publisher=Ashgabat 2017 |date= |website=ashgabat2017.com |access-date=17 October 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Bangalore]]), is an Indian professional player of [[snooker]], [[English billiards]], and [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]]. She is a two-time [[WLBSA|World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association]] World [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|Champion]] (2006, 2007), a two-time national pool champion, and more recently the World Women's Senior Snooker Championship (2014). She has also been a national-class amateur [[cricket]] and [[field hockey]] player.

Her highest {{cuegloss|break|breaks}} are 91 at [[snooker]]<ref name="CSI">{{cite web |title=Chitra Magimairaj |url=https://cuesportsindia.com/profiles/players/Women/20/chitra-magimairaj |website=Cue Sports India |access-date=3 May 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517135621/https://cuesportsindia.com/profiles/players/Women/20/chitra-magimairaj |url-status=live }}</ref> and 49 at [[English billiards]].

==Early life==
Born in [[Bangalore, India]], Magimairaj was educated at St. Anne's Girls High School, and graduated from Teresian College, Mysore. She started playing [[cricket]] and [[field hockey]] at a young age.

==Career==
On 22 April 2014, Magimairaj won the World Women's Senior Snooker Championship, after defeating Alena Asmolava of Belarus, in Leeds, UK.<ref name="thestatesman">{{cite news | title = Chitra wins world title | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220920/http://www.thestatesman.net/news/50938-Chitra-wins-world--title.html | archive-date = 20 May 2014 | url = http://www.thestatesman.net/news/50938-Chitra-wins-world--title.html | work = [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] | location = India | date = 23 April 2014 | access-date = 23 May 2014}}</ref>

Magimairaj was the first Indian woman cueist to win a medal in Asian Games and Asian Indoor Games, the First Indian woman to have won two World Billiards Championships (women's division) titles (in 2006 and 2007) and the first Indian to win an Australian Open Women's Snooker Championship (2008).{{cn|date=May 2022}}

Inn 2007 she received a [[Kempegowda Award]] and an [[Ekalavya Award]].{{cn|date=May 2022}}

==Other sports==
Magimairaj played cricket for Falcon Sports Club under Shanta Rangaswamy, and represented [[Karnataka]], which won the South Zone Cricket Championship in the year 1989.

She played field hockey for Sports Hostel [[Mysore]] for seven years, and represented Karnataka in sub-junior, junior, and senior nationals, the All-India Inter-University Invitation Cup, and the South Zone Championship.

==Titles and achievements==

'''English billiards'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref.
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 1 || 2006 || [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|World Ladies Billiards Championship]] || [[Emma Bonney]] || 193–164 || <ref>{{cite magazine |author= |title=India's first world champion |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=5 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |issue=May 2006}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 2 || 2007 || [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|World Ladies Billiards Championship]] || [[Emma Bonney]] || 187–148 || <ref>{{cite magazine |author= |title=Reanne Evans completes world title hat-trick |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=25 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |issue=May 2007}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"| Runner-up
|| 3 || 2009 || [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|World Ladies Billiards Championship]] || [[Emma Bonney]] || 118–272 || <ref>{{cite magazine |author= |title=Women's billiards |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=20 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |issue=May 2009 }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"| Runner-up
|| 4 || 2010 || [[World Women’s Billiards Championship|World Ladies Billiards Championship]] || [[Emma Bonney]] || 220–269 || <ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/front_page/newsid_8610000/8610045.stm |title=In pictures: World Ladies Billiards Championship 2010 |publisher=BBC |date=8 April 2010 |access-date=6 October 2019 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203003937/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/front_page/newsid_8610000/8610045.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"| Runner-up
|| 5 || 2013 || Indian National Billiards Championship || || ||
|}

'''Snooker'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref.
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 1 || 2008 || Australian Open Snooker Championship || || ||
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"| Runner-up
|| 2 || 2009 || Australian Open Snooker Championship || || ||
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 3 || 2011 || Indian National Six-red Snooker Championship || || ||
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 4 || 2012 || Indian National Snooker Championship || || ||
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"| Runner-up
|| 5 || 2013 || Indian National Snooker Championship || || ||
|}

'''Pool'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref.
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 1 || 2006 || Indian National [[Eight-ball]] Pool Championship || || ||
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner
|| 2 || 2007 || Indian National Nine-ball Pool Championship || || ||
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.cuesportsindia.com/myweb/profile/chitra.htm Player profile at ''CueSportsIndia'']

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

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[[Category:Indian players of English billiards]]
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[[Category:Female pool players]]
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[[Category:Asian Games competitors for India]]
[[Category:World champions in English billiards]]

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