Arantxa Sanchis

[7] Arantxa Sanchis is a female professional English billiards and snooker player from India.

On 27 September 2015, she won the inaugural IBSF World Billiards Championship in Adelaide, Australia.

[10] In addition, she won the bronze medal at the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in July 2016.

This was followed up by a bronze medal at the ACBS Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, in September 2016.

This was followed up with another bronze medal at the IBSF World Women's Snooker Championship at Antalya, Turkey, in November 2019.

[12] At 17 years of age, she represented India at the 2007 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, held at Goa and was a semi-finalist.

It was at the Officer's Mess at the College of Military Engineering in Pune, where her father was serving in the Indian Army that she picked up the cue.

She had her basic coaching under late Shri Satish Amarnath; a renowned National and International Billiards and Snooker player.

She has also represented MCF Club and Catholic Gymkhana at the Mumbai Billiards & Snooker Leagues.

In the year 2013, she was awarded with the Chancellor's Gold Medal of Symbiosis International University for all-round excellence in MBA among 5000 students across 10 Institutes in India.