Yang Ching-shun

Yang Ching-shun, nicknamed the Son of Pool, was a Taiwanese professional pool player, born on April 3, 1978, who died of cancer on December 6, 2023, at the age of 45. He first played pool at fourteen and by sixteen was Japan Open champion, beating Francisco Bustamante. He won the nine-ball event at the 1998 Asian Games against the then world champion Kunihiko Takahashi and defended it in 2002 against Warren Kiamco, and he also won the nine-ball singles at the 2001 World Games. He never won a world championship, but he was often regarded as a potential world champion, and his best finish in the World Pool Championship was third, reaching the semi-finals in 2002.