Pan Xiaoting (; born 25 February 1982) is a Chinese professional pool player.
Professional biography
She is the first Chinese woman to play full-time on the
WPBA Tour, and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball".
WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006
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.
[ 2007 Great Lakes Classic Results] Later she won the 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
[ 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship results] 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.
[ 2007 Carolina Women's Billiard Classic] 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 people 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
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.
[ Ronnie O'Sullivan vs. Pan Xiaoting, Exhibition 9-Ball Match]
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.[ Pan versus O'Sullivan - a 2nd Exhibition 9-Ball Match - A selection of 1 h and 10 minutes of that match]
Titles
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2010 WPBA Tour Championship
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2010 Asian Games Nine-ball Singles
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2008 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
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2008 WPBA BCA 9-Ball Championship
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2007 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship
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2007 WPBA Great Lakes Classic
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2005 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
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2002 All Japan Championship Nine-ball
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