Wu Jiaqing

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Wu Jiaqing
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Wu Jiaqing
nation TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan People's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
birthday February 9, 1989
place of birth Taiwan
Nickname Taisun
Medal table
8-ball World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
9-ball World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
10-ball world championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pool world rankings
Current WRL location 11 (as of July 2, 2020)

Wu Jiaqing ( Chinese  吳 珈 慶 ; born February 9, 1989 as Wu Chia-ching in Taiwan ) is a Taiwanese pool player who has been playing for the People's Republic of China since 2011 .

Career

In 2005 he won the 9-ball world championship in the final against his compatriot Kuo Po-Cheng when he was only 16 years and 5 months old (making him the youngest player ever) .

A short time later in the same year he also won the world championship in 8-ball in the final against the Dutchman Nick van den Berg .

He is thus the only one to have won both world championships in the same year (although the 8-ball world championship has only been held since 2004). In 2006 he won another major tournament with the All Japan Open and was only eliminated from the 9-Ball World Cup in 2006 in the quarter-finals against eventual winner Ronato Alcano . At the World Pool Masters 2006 he made it to the semifinals.

In 2008 he reached the final of the first official World Cup in 10-Ball , but lost in the final to Darren Appleton with 11:13.

In September 2015 he reached the semi-finals of the 9-ball World Cup and lost it at 10:11 against the eventual world champion Ko Pin-yi . At the 9-Ball World Cup in 2016 , he was eliminated in the round of 32 against Denis Grabe .

In August 2016 he won the China Open by beating Cheng Yu-hsuan 11-4 in the final .

citizenship

In 2011, Wu became a citizen of the People's Republic of China . In the course of this, he changed the spelling of his name from Wu Chia-Ching to Wu Jiaqing . Wu has lived in the People's Republic since 2010, initially in Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province , and now in the capital Beijing .

According to Wu, this was for sporting and not political reasons. As early as 2009, Wu was considering another citizenship - that of Singapore - and then had disputes with the national association. So it happened that between 2009 and 2011 he was barely allowed to take part in tournaments.

According to media reports, he is still a Taiwanese citizen, which will oblige him to serve in the military when he returns to Taiwanese territory.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pool player switches to PRC citizenship. In: taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times , April 22, 2011, archived from the original September 28, 2015 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Wu still obliged to serve in Taiwan military. In: china-defense-mashup.com. April 26, 2011, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Jiaqing is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Wu Jiaqing
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吳 珈 慶 (Chinese); Wu, Chia-ching
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese-Chinese pool player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Taiwan