The 1984 Women's World Amateur Snooker Championship was a 1984 edition of the World Women's Snooker Championship, first held in 1976, and was played at the Breaks Snooker Sporting Club, Coventry, from 6 to 7 October. The tournament was won by Stacey Hillyard, aged 15, who defeated Natalie Stelmach 4âÂÂ1 in the final.
Following the 1983 Women's World Snooker Championship, the promotional company Ladies Snooker International, which was controlled by some of the same personnel involved in the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA), announced the initiation of a professional division for women's snooker, which later included the 1984 Women's Grand Prix, but not a world professional championship.
The 1984 Women's World Amateur Snooker Championship, organised by the WLBSA, had 64 entrants and was sponsored by First Leisure and Bass Mitchells and Butlers, with a prize fund of ã3,000. The top sixteen seeds joined the draw at the last 32 stage. First round matches were the best-of-three frames, and the other rounds before the quarter-finals were the best-of-five frames, these being played on 6 October. Matches from the quarter-finals onwards were the best-of-seven frames, and were played on 7 October.
The top seed, Allison Fisher, aged 16, took a 2âÂÂ0 lead in her semi-final against Hillyard, aged 15, but lost the third frame on the . Fisher won the next to lead 3âÂÂ1, before Hillyard levelled the match at 3âÂÂ3 and followed this by winning the deciding frame of the . Hillyard took a 2âÂÂ0 lead against Stelmach in the final, and after losing the third frame, went on to win 4âÂÂ1 and take the title and win ã1,000 in prize money.
Hillyard also compiled the highest of the event, 48, for which she earned a further ã100.
There was a total prize fund of ã3,000. The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:
The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks where known, while players in bold denote match winners.