Pan Xiao Ting wins 1st WPBA Qualifier!

[Nostroke]

I'm curious - how did she get to be #3 in the world?

-djb

She came in 3rd in the World Championships and won the All Japan Open twice in a row.

Ga Young was only ranked 8th when she came to America.
Discounting the top 3 WPBA players, the rest of the World is equally as strong as the WPBA IMHO.

I hear Xiao Ting breaks harder than Ga Young. If she does, i don't think it can be by much-Ill find out this weekend in Palm Harbor.

 

[TX Poolnut]

Question about Pan

How do you properly pronounce her name? I am NOT trying to be disrespectful, just curious. If I'm going to be reading her name for years to come, it would be nice to know how to pronounce it in my head as I'm reading. Someone annunciate that knows for sure. Thanks. Is it like ZEEOW TING?

 

[Tbeaux]

How do you properly pronounce her name? I am NOT trying to be disrespectful, just curious. If I'm going to be reading her name for years to come, it would be nice to know how to pronounce it in my head as I'm reading. Someone annunciate that knows for sure. Thanks. Is it like ZEEOW TING?

Best I can make out over the net it's properly pronounced

Pan(family name)... (sch)YOW(sch sotto soft)....Ting but ???

Terry

 

[Colin Colenso]

She came in 3rd in the World Championships and won the All Japan Open twice in a row.

Ga Young was only ranked 8th when she came to America.
Discounting the top 3 WPBA players, the rest of the World is equally as strong as the WPBA IMHO.

I hear Xiao Ting breaks harder than Ga Young. If she does, i don't think it can be by much-Ill find out this weekend in Palm Harbor.

Actually, her Japan All Open wins came in 2002 and 2005. One of the years in between she couldn't get a visa and the other year she didn't win.

She's also the current Asian Women's Champion.

Her 3rd in the 2005 World Champs was her first attempt.

Not sure what else she has won on the WPA ranking events, but she doesn't get to play in all the events. She hasn't even been able to get a visa for the Taiwan Amway women's event in recent years. Hopefully she'll be able to attend this year's women's world champs there.

As for the pronunciation of her name, I explained it earlier in this thread. Tbeaux' explanation reads phonetically pretty close though.

btw: Kim Ga Young beat her in the semi on the way to her World Championship win, but Pan got her back at this year's Japan All Open.

She's yet to go up against Allison and Karen (at least in big tourneys) as far as I know, but I think she'll be pretty close.

I played her for the first time over 4 years ago and said then that I think she could be a world champion in the women's game and even give most male pros a good game.

She lacks tournament experience but is fast getting more and more. She's near impossible to beat on her own practice table, though I got her once. I think she was feeling generous that day and gave me a few chances so I could warm up.

One day I played her 8 games and had 2 visits to the table. Each visit I was hooked and got out, but she cleaned up. OUCH!!!

 

[akaTrigger]

Thanks a ton SPetty...and well done in the tourney

I don't know how I missed that thread and the news. I was searching all weekend

Pan didn't seem to power through the event as I imagined she might. Must be a lot of tough lady players over there. She does seem to have the knack of winning events though...a true champion quality.

Colin

And here is Pan in the US:

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Hi Colin,

As everyone can see in this photo, she is very beautiful and when I took this photo of her and her interpretor, people were commenting behind me about her beauty.

The one thing I noticed about Pan was she never gave up. She was down in only two matches - one with Leslie Anne Rogers and one with Anna Kostanian - and she never gave up and fought back to hill-hill both times. She did defeat Anna, and just got an unlucky roll with Leslie hill-hill.

Melinda