Chen Siming

Chen Siming is a Chinese professional pool player, born on 30 December 1993 and best known for winning the 2017 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship, which she took by coming back from 1 to 5 down to beat Pan Xiaoting 9 to 7. She grew up in Heilongjiang Province, where her parents owned a pool hall, and began playing snooker at the age of eight. In 2006 she won both the eight-ball and nine-ball divisions of the Chinese National Youth Championships, and by 2009 she was coached by the double world champion Wu Jia-qing. In 2010 she beat Allison Fisher to win the China Open, her first major title, and she took the Six-red snooker gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games. She won the Philippine Open and the All Japan Championship in 2011, the year Billiards Digest named her player of the year after her run to the final of that year's Women's World Nine-ball Championship.