Pan Xiaoting
| Born | February 25, 1982 Yanzhou District, Jining, Shandong |
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| Sport country | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China |
| Nickname | Queen of Nine-ball[1] |
| Professional | 2006 |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's pool | ||
| Representing File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | ||
| Asian Games | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 2010 Guangzhou | 9-ball individual |
| Bronze medal – third place | 2006 Doha | 9-ball individual |
| Bronze medal – third place | 2006 Doha | 8-ball individual |
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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.
Professional biography
[edit | edit source]She 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
[edit | edit source]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 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
[edit | edit source]In 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 7-6.[8]
Titles
[edit | edit source]- 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
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- ^ 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 | edit source]- Short presentation Archived 2022-12-02 at the Wayback Machine of Xiaoting PAN
- Some 32 minutes of 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 gold medalists in cue sports
- Asian Games bronze 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 sportswomen