Chinese Eight-ball World Championship
The CBSA World Chinese Eight-ball Championship, also known as the Chinese Pool World Championship, is a pool tournament in the discipline of Chinese eight-ball. The event has been held annually since 2015, taking place in Yushan, Jiangxi in China. The tournament is one of the highest-paid pool tournaments in the world, with 2015 winner Darren Appleton Darren Appleton (born 8 February 1976) is an English pool player, best known for playing Eight-ball, Nine-ball and Ten-ball pool.

Pool (cue Sports)
Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in its logo but "pool-billiards" in its legal notices. The organization compounds the words to result in an acronym of "WPA", "WPBA" having already been taken by the Women's Professional Billiards Association. Normal English grammar would not hyphenate here, and the term is actually a Germanism. A general rules booklet on pool games in general, including eight-ball, nine-ball and several others. Each specific pool game has its own name; some of the better-known include eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. The generic term pocket billiards is sometimes also used, and favored by some pool-industry bodies, but is technically a broader classification, including games such as snooke ...
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Chris Melling (pool Player)
Christopher Melling (born 27 January 1979) is an English professional pool and snooker player and former world number 1 at World Rules British Eight-Ball. He won the WEPF World Eightball Championship twice, in 2001 and 2003. He was ranked #1 in 2003 by the World Eightball Pool Federation. Melling has also twice won the International Pool Masters (2001 and 2002) and the European Professional title (2002). He was the first player to win two International Tour events back to back. His entrance by walk-on music is from the song “Wannabe” by Spice Girls. Melling is also the only cue sports player to hold professional status in English 8 ball, American pool and snooker. Career In 2001, Melling reached the last 16 of the 2001 WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, beating Steve Davis along the way. Melling tours worldwide to pursue his 9-ball pool career. In October 2010 he won his first European 9-Ball event - the Portugal Open. On 12 June 2011 Melling was crowned Chi ...
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Wang Ye (pool Player)
Wang Ye may refer to: *Wang Ye (Three Kingdoms), Chinese official of the Three Kingdoms period and Jin dynasty *Wang Ye worship Wang Ye worship () is a Fujianese and Taiwanese folk religion, frequently considered an aspect of the Taoist belief system. Wang Ye is particularly worshipped in Southern Taiwan and also among Minnan speaking communities worldwide. The customary ...

Liu Shasha (pool Player)
Sha Sha Liu (also known as Liu Shasha) is a female Chinese professional pool player. She is one of the most successful 9-Ball world champions of all time, having won the Women's WPA World Nine-ball Championship on three occasions, in 2009, 2014 and 2015. In 2009, Sha Sha became the youngest women's player ever to win the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship at 16 years old. Titles * 2015 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship * 2014 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship * 2014 WPA World Team Championship * 2013 China Open 9-Ball Championship * 2009 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship The WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship is an annual Pool tournament in the discipline of Nine-ball. The most successful player is Allison Fisher Allison Fisher (born 24 February 1968) is an English professional pool and former professio ... References External links Female pool players Chinese pool players 1990s births Living people Asian Games medalists in ...
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Han Yu (pool Player)
Han Yu (born 1992) is a Chinese professional pool player. She is a three time WPA World Nine-ball Championship women's champion, winning the event in 2013, 2016 and 2018. Han is also a semi-finalist in three further world championships, in 2017 in the nine-ball event, and 2011 and 2014 in ten-ball. Twice a winner of the nine-ball event at the All Japan Championship and thrice at the China Open 9-Ball Championship, Han won the "player of the year award" in 2016 for Billiards Digest. Career Han Yu picked up the game of pool aged six following her father to a pool hall. She first appeared at a major pool event in 2007 as she won the China national nine-ball championship aged 15. She also reached the semi-finals of the All Japan Championship, before winning the event in 2009. In 2011, Han reached the semi-final of the WPA World Ten-ball Championship, losing to winner Kelly Fisher 9–4, and later in the year lost again in the semi-final of the All Japan Championship to Bi Z ...
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Fu Xiaofang
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.World Champions
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Fu was born into a family in Bailou, in , . In 2002, aged 15, she travelled to her uncle's in

Kelly Fisher
Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool, snooker and English billiards player. Career Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. She learned to play pool in her parents' pub and took up snooker when she was 13. By the age of 21, she had been ranked No. 1 for two consecutive seasons. Fisher won three successive Ladies World Snooker Championship between 1998 and 2000, and won the title again in 2002 and 2003. In 2001, she won four successive tournaments in the ladies' divisions – the British Open, Belgian Open, LG Cup titles and the UK Championship, and extended her winning streak to ten successive tournaments when she won the LG Cup in October 2002. She has reached the final of every European Ladies' Championship, losing just once to former West Yorkshire (Batley) champion Shakeel Kamal. In 2003 Fisher won the first IBSF World Ladies' Championship. When the sport's governing body withdrew its support for the women ...
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Chen Siming
Chen Siming (born 30 December 1993) is a Chinese professional pool player. Chen is best known for winning the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Career Chen grew up in Heilongjiang Province, China, where her parents were owners of a pool hall, and she started playing snooker aged 8. Four years later, in 2006, she won both the 8-ball and 9-ball divisions of the Chinese National Youth Championships. By 2009 she was being coached by Wu Jia-qing (formerly known as Wu Chia-Ching), the double world champion. Within a year, she defeated Allison Fisher to win the 2010 China Open, her first major title. In the 2010 Asian Games, Chen won the gold medal in the Six-red snooker event. In 2011, she won her second senior title, the Philippine Open, defeating Kelly Fisher 9–3 in the final, and later won the All Japan Championship. ''Billiards Digest'' named Chen as 2011 player of the year. Following further tournament successes, she won the 2017 Women's World 9-Ball Championship, comin ...
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Zhang Xiaotong (pool Player)
Xiaotong Zhang is a Chinese swimmer. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games. She competes in the Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ... class S11. She is a paralympic World Record and Asian Record holder. References Chinese female breaststroke swimmers Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Hong Kong Living people Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic swimmers for China Year of birth missing (living people) S11-classified para swimmers 21st-century Chinese women Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Bai Ge
BAI or Bai may refer to: BAI Organizations *BAI Communications, telecommunications infrastructure company *BAI (organization), professional organization for financial services in the United States *Badminton Association of India, India's governing body for badminton *Banco Angolano de Investimentos, a bank in Angola *Board of Audit and Inspection, supreme audit institution of South Korea * Brittany Ferries, a French shipping company * Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, regulator of broadcasting in Ireland *Bureau of Animal Industry, formerly an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture *WBAI, a listener-supported radio station in New York City Science *Beck Anxiety Inventory, a psychological assessment tool *Body adiposity index, a method of measuring body fat in humans *Brain-specific angiogenesis inhibitor 1 Other uses * BAI (file format), file format for performing electronic cash management balance reporting * BA-I, a Soviet armoured car * Battlefield ai ...
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Zhao Ruliang
Zhao may refer to: * Zhao (surname) (赵), a Chinese surname ** commonly spelled Chao in Taiwan or up until the early 20th century in other regions ** Chiu, from the Cantonese pronunciation ** Cho (Korean surname), represent the Hanja 趙 (Chinese: Zhao) ** Triệu, a Vietnamese surname which is the equivalent of the Mandarin Chinese surname Zhao (趙) * Zhao County, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China * Zhao family (other) ** Zhao family (Internet slang), based on the surname Zhao, an internet term in China which refers to the ruling elite and the rich * 兆 (zhào), a Chinese numeral which usually represents 106 or 1012 **Mega-, corresponding SI prefix in China, equals to 106 **Tera-, corresponding SI prefix in Taiwan, equals to 1012 * Admiral Zhao, a character in the animated series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' Chinese history * Zhao (state) (403 BC–222 BC), a Warring States period state * Triệu dynasty (204 BC–111 BC), or Zhao dynasty, the ruling house of the ...
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