Liu Hsin-mei
Sport country | Chinese Taipei |
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Nickname | Billiards Queen[1] A-mei[2] |
Pool games | Nine-Ball, 14.1 continuous |
Tournament wins | |
World Champion | Nine-Ball (1999, 2002) |
Liu Hsin-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]
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]
References
- ^ Sen-lun, Yu (28 July 2002). "From a low-class to a high-profile sport". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ a b c Frazier, David (2 April 2000). "Inside the Angel War". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ World Champions Archived 16 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d Sen-lun, Yu (28 July 2002). "Cleaning the table". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ Carpio, Gerry (15 July 2012). "Strong school sports behind Taiwan's Olympic success". ABS CBN News. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ Billiard Congress of America (1 May 2005). Billiards, Revised and Updated: The Official Rules And Records Book. Lyons Press. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-1-4617-4992-9.
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(men's)
- 1990: Earl Strickland
- 1991: Earl Strickland
- 1992: Johnny Archer
- 1993: Chao Fong-pang
- 1994: Takeshi Okumura
- 1995: Oliver Ortmann
- 1996: Ralf Souquet
- 1997: Johnny Archer
- 1998: Kunihiko Takahashi
- 1999: Efren Reyes & Nick Varner
- 2000: Chao Fong-pang
- 2001: Mika Immonen
- 2002: Earl Strickland
- 2003: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2004: Alex Pagulayan
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2006: Ronato Alcano
- 2007: Daryl Peach
- 2010: Francisco Bustamante
- 2011: Yukio Akakariyama
- 2012: Darren Appleton
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Niels Feijen
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2016: Albin Ouschan
- 2017: Carlo Biado
- 2018: Joshua Filler
- 2019: Fedor Gorst
- 2021: Albin Ouschan
- 2022: Shane Van Boening
- 2023: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
- 2024: Fedor Gorst
(women's)
- 1990: Robin Bell
- 1991: Robin Bell
- 1992: Franziska Stark
- 1993: Loree Jon Jones
- 1994: Ewa Laurance
- 1995: Gerda Hofstätter
- 1996: Allison Fisher
- 1997: Allison Fisher
- 1998: Allison Fisher
- 1999: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2000: Julie Kelly
- 2001: Allison Fisher
- 2002: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2004: Kim Ga-young
- 2006: Kim Ga-young
- 2007: Pan Xiaoting
- 2008: Lin Yuan-chun
- 2009: Liu Shasha
- 2010: Fu Xiaofang
- 2011: Bi Zhu Qing
- 2012: Kelly Fisher
- 2013: Han Yu
- 2014: Liu Shasha
- 2015: Liu Shasha
- 2016: Han Yu
- 2017: Chen Siming
- 2018: Han Yu
- 2019: Kelly Fisher
(champions)
- 2004: Efren Reyes
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2007: Ronato Alcano
- 2008: Ralf Souquet
- 2010: Karl Boyes
- 2011: Dennis Orcollo
- 2012: Chang Jung-Lin
- 2022: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
- 2008: Darren Appleton
- 2009: Mika Immonen
- 2011: Huidji See
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2019: Ko Ping-chung
- 2021: Eklent Kaçi
- 2022: Wojciech Szewczyk
- 2023: Eklent Kaçi
- 2024: Carlo Biado
- 2006: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2007: Oliver Ortmann
- 2008: Niels Feijen
- 2009: Stephan Cohen
- 2010: Oliver Ortmann
- 2011: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2012: John Schmidt
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Darren Appleton
- 2015: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2016: Mika Immonen
- 2017: Lee Vann Corteza
- 2018: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2019: Shane Van Boening