Pan Xiaoting (simplified Chinese: 潘晓婷; traditional Chinese: 潘曉婷; pinyin: Pān Xiǎotíng; born 25 February 1982) is a Chinese professional pool player.
| 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's pool | ||
| Representing China
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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 |
Professional biography
editShe is the first Chinese woman to play full-time on the WPBA Tour, and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball".[2][3]
WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006
editPan 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 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Pan is a friendly rival of fellow Asian WPBA player Kim 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-ranked Allison Fisher. Pan is also a good friend of Chinese snooker player Ding 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 defeating Kim Ga-young of South Korea in the semi-finals 7–6, and Karen Corr of Northern Ireland 7–4 in the final.
Matches against Ronnie O'Sullivan
editIn December 2013, Pan participated in an exhibition match (9-ball and snooker) against snooker ace Ronnie O'Sullivan in 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- 2010 WPBA Tour Championship
- 2010 Asian Games Nine-ball Singles
- 2008 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
- 2008 WPBA BCA 9-Ball Championship
- 2007 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship
- 2007 WPBA Great Lakes Classic
- 2005 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
- 2002 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
References
edit- ^ Lerner, Ted (24 September 2011). "The Queen is back". WPA. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ Du, Mingming (24 December 2013). "Ronnie O'Sullivan to meet '9-ball pool queen' in China". en.people.cn. People's Daily Online. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ Lerner, Ted (24 September 2011). "THE QUEEN IS BACK". wpapool.com. WPBA. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ 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 presentation of Xiaoting PAN
- Some 32 minutes of the 2018 match between Xiaoting Pan and Ronnie O'Sullivan