Liu Hsin-mei

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]

Liu Hsin-mei
Sport country Chinese Taipei
NicknameBilliards Queen[1]
A-mei[2]
Pool gamesNine-Ball, 14.1 continuous
Tournament wins
MajorWPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship 1999 and 2002
Ranking info

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 amphetemines.[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
  • 1993 BCA US Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Champion[4][6]
  • 1999 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Champion - beat Allison Fisher 11–10 in the final[2]
  • 2002 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Champion - beat Karen Corr in the final
  • 2004 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship – runner up, 9–11, to Kim Ga-young
  • 2006 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship – runner up to Kim Ga-young

References
  1. Sen-lun, Yu (28 July 2002). "From a low-class to a high-profile sport". Taipei Times. 17. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. Frazier, David (2 April 2000). "Inside the Angel War". Taipei Times. 17. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. World Champions Archived 16 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. Sen-lun, Yu (28 July 2002). "Cleaning the table". Taipei Times. 17. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. 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.
  6. Billiards 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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