Pan Xiaoting, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chinese female professional pool player
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Place of Birth: Shandong, China
About Pan Xiaoting
- Pan Xiaoting (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Pan XiaotÃng; born 25 February 1982) is a Chinese professional pool player. She is the first Chinese woman to play full-time on the WPBA Tour, and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball".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.
- Later she won the 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship 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.
- 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 .
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