Liu Shin-mei

Liu Shin-mei is a professional pool player from Chinese Taipei who won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in 1999 and 2002 and was runner-up in 2004 and 2006. Both of her parents were blind and worked as masseuses, and as a young girl she would bicycle to her parents' customers' houses. She took up pool at 18 after socialising in pool halls, and she studied at the Taipei Physical Education College, where she began studying sports management in 2001 with the ambition of becoming a teacher. Shortly after winning the 2002 championship she published an autobiographical book, Taiwan A-mei.