Pan Xiaoting

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.

Pan Xiaoting

Born	(1982-02-25) February 25, 1982 (age 43) Yanzhou District, Jining, Shandong
Sport country	China
Nickname	Queen of Nine-ball[1]
Professional	2006

Pan Xiaoting

Medal record
Women's pool
Representing  China
Asian Games
	2010 Guangzhou	9-ball individual
	2006 Doha	9-ball individual
	2006 Doha	8-ball individual

In this Chinese name, the family name is Pan.

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".^[2][3]

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.^[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

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

• 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