Wu Jia-qing

Wu Jia-qing, written Wu Jiaqing in pinyin and nicknamed the Taishan Shentong, meaning the Little Genius from Taishan, is a Taiwanese-born Chinese professional pool player born on 9 February 1989. Since 2011 he has represented the People's Republic of China rather than Chinese Taipei and was previously known as Wu Chia-ching. Raised by his grandmother from the age of two, he began playing eight-ball at ten at his family's pool hall. In 2005, after only six years of playing, he became the youngest men's player ever to win the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, at sixteen. The next year he was top seed but lost in the quarter-final to the eventual winner Ronato Alcano.