At last month's China Nine-Ball Open, 37-year-old "billiards goddess" Pan Xiaoting withdrew from the game due to injury, in fact, she has not won the championship for a long time, more often appearing in variety shows and events.
In fact, after Pan Xiaoting, there is another "nine-ball diva" in China, she has won the world championship three times, is the Chinese who has won the most titles, she is Liu Shasha.
<h1>The Liu family had a daughter who had just grown up, but was cruelly abandoned by her parents</h1>
At the last bend of the Nine-Curved Yellow River, there stands a small city that has experienced many vicissitudes, and the name of this small city is - Lankao.
On July 26, 1993, with a loud cry, the Liu family in Bailou Village, Hongmiao Town, Lankao Gave birth to a cute baby girl, and the Fu family next door also came to congratulate her. 9 years later, Fu Xiaofang, the daughter of the Fu family, because she was not interested in learning, she went north alone to Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, where the blue sky, white clouds and black land, and in the "reclamation area where China first greeted the sun" Jiansanjiang, she found her uncle Fu Zhonglang, who studied billiards in her uncle's billiard hall, and then frequently obtained good results in domestic competitions.
Suddenly, for three years, Liu Shasha, the little daughter of the Liu family and the sister of Fu Xiaofang's classmate, followed the path of "Gan Sister" under the condition that she knew that there was no hope for her studies, and took a train and car with her father for three days and two nights to the icy northeast together. The too simple environment in the practice room made Xiao Sasha shake the idea of playing billiards, and the difficult communication between Henan dialect and Northeast dialect made her fall into autism, and she cried every day and begged her father to take her home.
Instead of acceding to her request, her father resolutely pulled her to the pool hall and let Sasha, who was not yet tall, swing her first shot. Another week passed, seeing his daughter's billiards talent on display, Liu's father only left a word for his daughter, and then embarked on a journey back to his hometown alone:
"Practice well, Mom and Dad come to see you every month."
How did the sensible Sasha know that this would be a lie that lasted for two and a half years, and the bitter wait did not come to her parents' visit. In desperation, she could only vent the anger and pain in her heart on the pool table, not expecting that her billiards level was also growing day by day. Looking back on those hard years of practice, Sasha also said:
"At that time, I used to cry in the middle of the night, and many times the pillow was half wet. Because I am afraid, I can only sleep with the lights on, but I live in other people's homes and I am afraid of costing electricity. I don't know how to survive, when I get homesickness, I carry the club and play the ball, so as to distract my feelings of home. ”
<h1>There was an accident in the sister showdown, and the champion coach took the sister with him</h1>
Two years later, Fu Xiaofang, who was already the national champion, returned to his uncle's billiard hall, and also had a "sister duel" with the "dry sister", but he did not expect that his sister actually defeated his sister, which impressed her sister, and immediately took her to Beijing, to the billiards club that Fu Xiaofang opened near the "Bird's Nest", and defected to his master Zhang Shuchun.
At first, Zhang Shuchun, who needed to take Fu Xiaofang to play games across the country, was not willing to take another apprentice. But when he saw Xiaofang turn back what he taught to Sasha, he was also touched by the two people who were "not sisters, but like sisters", and decided to teach the two of them together.
In the Spring Festival of 2008, Liu Shasha returned to her hometown with the fourth place in the National Youth Billiards Championship and the 150 yuan that her mother gave her. After two and a half years, the family of three was finally reunited again, and when they saw each other, they hugged and cried bitterly. This time, Sasha told her parents:
"Give me a club and I'll be able to pry the world apart!"
<h1>Participating in the World Championships for the first time, he will eventually win the championship after passing the level</h1>
In 2009, the World Women's Nine-Ball Championship settled in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and Liu Shasha, who participated in the competition for the first time, passed the hurdles all the way, and in the semi-finals, she cut down the "nine-ball diva" Pan Xiaoting, who was just starting out and surprised the whole field.
In the final, facing the Irish veteran Karen Cole who eliminated Fu Xiaofang, the inexperienced Liu Shasha fell behind 1-5 as soon as she came up, and some Chinese spectators on the scene had already left early, and Cole's championship seemed to be within reach.
At break, Liu Shasha slowed her breathing, adjusted her mentality, left all the pressure behind, and tried to give it her all her might. The miracle was also quietly staged at this time: in the 7th game, after a brief standoff, Liu Shasha took advantage of Karen Cole's ball mistake to clear the stage smoothly. Stabilizing her position, she served in the 8th set to win, at this time it was Cole's turn to be nervous, and several mistakes in the rush were taken advantage of by Liu Shasha, who was angry and went down for eight consecutive innings, completing an epic reversal, leaving only Cole's lonely back.
9 to 5, Sasha helped her sister avenge a stone's throw, and won the championship for the first time in the World Championships, becoming the second Chinese nine-ball world champion after Pan Xiaoting, and the youngest champion in the history of the World Championships. At the age of 16, she became famous and became the biggest dark horse in the women's nine-ball industry that year, practicing billiards for 4 years to become a world champion, and also inspired Liu Shasha to inspire more teenagers to step into the billiard hall to practice their skills and bravely chase the dream of billiards.
<h1>The downturn in form was questioned, and the strong defending title came to fight back</h1>
The title of world champion is both an endless glory and like a solid shackle. Liu Shasha was spotlighted by the world's magnesium lamp overnight, and suddenly stood at the center of the international nine-ball stage. She was elected Billiards Player of the Year in 2009, CCTV Sports Personality of the Year For Non-Olympic Athlete of the Year, and the Supreme Meritorious Service of the People's Republic of China Sports Medal of Honor.
Fame and fortune, who does not seek. At the Guangzhou Asian Games, she defeated all kinds of Asian players and won the women's 8-ball gold medal for the motherland. The overexposure caught Sasha off guard and surprised her. However, in the subsequent competition, her performance plummeted, but she was defeated by her sister, making her the new world champion. For a time, Liu Shasha was pushed to the cusp of the storm again, and even some people questioned that the poor girl had a problem with her heart when she won the championship.
Fade away the glitz and glitz, and know where to be home. With the comfort and encouragement of her family, coaches and "dry sisters", Liu Shasha regained her strength. At the 2014 Women's Nine-Goal World Championship, she once again staged a reversal, defeating her national team teammate Chen Siming and becoming China's first world championship double. A year later, at the World Championships, she became stronger and stronger, successfully defending her title with an unstoppable momentum, and reaching the top of the world for the third time!
For many years now, Liu Shasha has remained in the top three in the world, often reaching the final in international competitions.