Liu Hsin-mei

Liu Shin-mei (柳信美) is a professional pool player from Chinese Taipei. She has won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship twice, in 1999 and 2002.^[3]

Liu Shin-mei

Sport country	Chinese Taipei
Nickname	Billiards Queen[1] A-mei[2]
Pool games	Nine-Ball, 14.1 continuous
Tournament wins
World Champion	Nine-Ball (1999, 2002)

Biography

Both of Liu's parents were blind, and provided massages for a living. As a young girl, Liu would transport her parents by bicycle to customers' houses. At 18, she started socialising at pool halls, and took up playing pool. Later, she worked at a karaoke bar, during which she was regularly drinking and taking drugs, including amphetamines.^[4]

She studied at The Taipei Physical Education College.^[5] In 2001, she started studying sports management at Taipei Physical Education College, with the ambition of becoming a teacher.^[4]

She won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in 1999 and 2002, and was runner-up in 2004 and 2006. Shortly after winning the 2002 championship, she published an autobiographical book, Taiwan A-mei (台灣阿美).^[4]

Tournament results

• 2004 WPA Amway Cup 9-Ball World Open
• 2003 All Japan Championship 9-Ball
• 2002 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship^[2]
• 2001 All Japan Championship 9-Ball
• 1999 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship^[2]
• 1998 All Japan Championship 9-Ball
• 1993 BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship^[4][6]