Fu Xiaofang (born 6 May 1986) is a Chinese professional

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player. Fu is best known for winning the 2010

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.World Champions
World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

Biography

Fu was born into a

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family in Bailou, in

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. In 2002, aged 15, she travelled to her uncle's

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province to learn how to play pool. She moved to

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in 2004 to develop her game, and was coached by Zhang Shuchung. A year later, in 2005, she won her first national pool title. Fu won bronze medals at the Asian Indoor Games in 2009 and at the Asian Games in 2010. In 2010 she won the

with a 9–7 victory over

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. Two years later, she was the runner-up, beaten in the final 6–9 by

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Achievements

*2010 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship *2011 China Open 9-Ball Championship * 2014 WPA World Team Championship *2017 CBSA World Chinese Eight-ball ChampionshipGold medallist Pan Xiaoting of China
Getty Images, 19 November 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2019 *2018 China Open 9-Ball Championship

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fu, Xiaofang Living people female pool players Chinese pool players 1986 births People from Lankao County Asian Games medalists in cue sports Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese women