Liu Hsin-mei

Liu Shin-mei (柳信美) is a professional pool player from Chinese Taipei. She has won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship twice, in 1999 and 2002.

Biography Both of Liu's parents were blind and worked as masseuses. As a young girl, Liu would bicycle to her parents' customers' houses. At 18, she started socialising at pool halls and took up playing pool. Later, she worked at a karaoke bar, during which she was regularly drinking and taking drugs, including amphetamines.

She studied at The Taipei Physical Education College. In 2001, she started studying sports management at Taipei Physical Education College, with the ambition of becoming a teacher.