Fu Xiaofang
Chinese pool player (born 1986)
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Fu Xiaofang (born 6 May 1986) is a Chinese professional pool player. Fu is best known for winning the 2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship.[1]
Biography
Fu was born into a peasant family in Bailou, in Lankao County, China. In 2002, aged 15, she travelled to her uncle's pool hall in Heilongjiang province to learn how to play pool. She moved to Beijing in 2004 to develop her game, and was coached by Zhang Shuchung. A year later, in 2005, she won her first national pool title.[2]
Fu won bronze medals at the Asian Indoor Games in 2009 and at the Asian Games in 2010.[3]
She won the 2010 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship with a 9–7 victory over Allison Fisher.[4] Two years later, at the 2012 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship she was the runner-up, beaten in the final 6–9 by Kelly Fisher.[5]