Pan Xiaoting
| Born | February 25, 1982 Yanzhou District,Jining,Shandong |
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| Sport country |  China |
| Nickname | Queen of Nine-ball[1] |
| Professional | 2006 |
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| Women'spool | ||
| RepresentingChina
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| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | 9-ball individual |
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2006 Doha | 9-ball individual |
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2006 Doha | 8-ball individual |
Pan Xiaoting(simplified Chinese:Phan hiểu đình;traditional Chinese:Phan hiểu đình;pinyin:Pān Xiǎotíng;born 25 February 1982) is a Chinese professionalpoolplayer.
Professional biography[edit]
She is the first Chinese woman to play full-time on theWPBA Tour,and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball".[2][3]
WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006[edit]
Pan was named WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006 and finished the season ranked #13. Pan won her first WPBA tournament at the 2007 Great Lakes Classic.[4]Later she won the 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship[5]held inTaoyuan City,Taiwan.Pan is a friendly rival of fellow Asian WPBA playerKim Ga-young;the two met in the finals of the 2007 Carolina Women's Billiard Classic, with Kim prevailing 7 to 6 in the WPBA's first all-Asian championship match.[6]Kim and Pan finished the 2007 WPBA season ranked #2 and #3, respectively, behind perennially top-rankedAllison Fisher.Pan is also a good friend ofChinesesnookerplayerDing Junhui.In 2008, Pan won the BCA GenerationPool.com title on the WPBA tour, and in 2010 added a WPBA major to her resume at the Tour Championships. She went undefeated in Niagara Falls that year defeatingKim Ga-youngofSouth Koreain the semi-finals 7–6, andKaren CorrofNorthern Ireland7–4 in the final.
Matches against Ronnie O'Sullivan[edit]
In December 2013, Pan participated in an exhibition match (9-ball and snooker) againstsnookeraceRonnie O'Sullivanin Yanzhou, which she won 7–6 in 9-ball and lost 2–1 in snooker 6-red.[7]
In November 2018, a second exhibition match between Pan and O'Sullivan took place in China, as well. The professional 9-ball champion Pan won with 7-6[8]
Titles[edit]
- 2010Asian Games Nine-ball Singles
- 2008All Japan ChampionshipNine-ball
- 2007WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship
- 2005All Japan ChampionshipNine-ball
- 2002All Japan ChampionshipNine-ball
References[edit]
- ^Lerner, Ted (24 September 2011)."The Queen is back".WPA.Archivedfrom the original on 2 December 2022.Retrieved13 February2024.
- ^Du, Mingming (24 December 2013)."Ronnie O'Sullivan to meet '9-ball pool queen' in China".en.people.cn.People's Daily Online.Retrieved9 December2019.
- ^Lerner, Ted (24 September 2011)."THE QUEEN IS BACK".wpapool.com.WPBA.Retrieved9 December2019.
- ^2007 Great Lakes Classic Results
- ^2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship results
- ^2007 Carolina Women's Billiard Classic
- ^Ronnie O'Sullivan vs. Pan Xiaoting, Exhibition 9-Ball Match
- ^Pan versus O'Sullivan - a 2nd Exhibition 9-Ball Match- A selection of 1 h and 10 minutes of that match
External links[edit]
- Short presentationof Xiaoting PAN
- Some 32 minutesof the 2018 match between Xiaoting Pan and Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 1982 births
- Asian Games bronze medalists for China
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games medalists in cue sports
- Chinese pool players
- Cue sports players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games
- Female pool players
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- People from Jining
- Sportspeople from Shandong
- World champions in pool
- Participants in Chinese reality television series
- 21st-century Chinese women