Liu Shasha
Chinese pool player, three time world champion
Sha Sha Liu (also known as Liu Shasha, born July 26, 1993) is a Chinese professional pool player. She is one of the most successful female nine-ball players of all time, having won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship on three occasions, in 2009, 2014 and 2015. Aged 16 years old in 2009, she is the youngest world nine-ball champion ever, and won the event on her international debut. In addition to her three World nine-ball championships, she also reached the final of the WPA World Heyball Championship in 2018.
A former World Pool Association world number one, she is five time finalist of the China 9-Ball Open, she won the event in 2013. She won the eight-ball event at the 2010 Asian Games, and got a bronze medal in the ten-ball event at the 2025 World Games. Having grown up in the same small village as Fu Xiaofang, the two are known as "billiard sisters". The two both won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in back-to-back years in 2009 and 2010.
Early life
Liu was born on July 26, 1993, in Lankao County, Henan Province, to mother Cao Yumei and father Liu Dongbo. She grew up in Bailou Village in Bailou Township, the same village as Fu Xiaofang, who was already a member of the national billiards team.
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