Fu Xiaofang

Fu Xiaofang is a Chinese professional pool player, born on May 6, 1986, in Bailou, Lankao County, into a peasant family, and best known for winning the 2010 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship with a 9-7 victory over Allison Fisher. At fifteen she travelled to her uncle's pool hall in Heilongjiang province to learn the game, moved to Beijing in 2004 and was coached by Zhang Shuchung, and won her first national title in 2005. She won bronze medals at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and the 2010 Asian Games, was runner-up at the 2012 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, beaten 6-9 by Kelly Fisher, and added the China Open 9-Ball Championship in 2011 and 2018 and the 2014 WPA World Team Championship.