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'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 |
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. Nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball", she is the first Chinese woman to play full-time on the WPBA Tour.[2][3]
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.
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].
References
- ^ 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). [People's Daily Online "Ronnie O'Sullivan to meet '9-ball pool queen' in China"]. en.people.cn. People's Daily Online. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ 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
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Chinese pool players
- Female pool players
- People from Jining
- World champions in pool
- Sportspeople from Shandong
- Asian Games medalists in cue sports
- Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games
- Cue sports players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games bronze medalists for China
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games