Ko Ping-chung

Ko Ping-chung, also written Ko Pin-chung, is a Taiwanese professional pool player, born on 18 September 1995 and the younger brother of Ko Pin-yi. He is a two-time World Ten-ball Championship winner and a U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship winner. He reached his first major final at the All Japan Championship in November 2010, losing to Germany's Thorsten Hohmann, and became Junior World 9-ball Champion in November 2013 by beating Poland's Sebastian Batkowski 8-5. He won the CSI U.S. Open 8-Ball Championship against Shane Van Boening, reached the semi-finals of the 2015 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, where Van Boening beat him, and lost the quarterfinals of the 2016 event to Alex Pagulayan.