Billiards is a popular sport and has a good mass base in our country. The world professional platform has always been led by the United Kingdom led by European countries, this situation lasted for a long time, until the emergence of Chinese player Ding Junhui, he broke the monopoly of European and American billiards masters on the world championships. It can be said that Ding Junhui has played a very important role in the further promotion of billiards in China, and has also allowed more people to understand the women's billiards project.
When it comes to female billiards athletes in China, the most well-known is Pan Xiaoting, the "Nine Ball Diva". And there is such a female billiards player, her ball skills and talent are not inferior to Pan Xiaoting, since the age of 14, she has won a number of honors, known as the female version of "Ding Junhui". But when she was 19 years old, she exposed a sexual harassment scandal with her teammates at the Asian Games, and after being banned for a year, she hastily retired at the age of 20, she is Zhou Mengmeng.
Born in 1987, Zhou Mengmeng was exposed to billiards very early, and began practicing billiards at the age of 11. Because Zhou Mengmeng's father ran a billiard hall at that time, she had a unique advantage and had a lot of opportunities to contact billiards. At the age of 13, Zhou Mengmeng participated in professional billiards competitions and won the runner-up, which was also the year she became a professional golfer.
In order to be able to concentrate more on the billiards career, Zhou Mengmeng chose to drop out of school at the age of 14 and embarked on the same path as Ding Junhui. Although Zhou Mengmeng does not have the same level of world ranking as Ding Junhui, she still won many national championships, large and small, and she has repeatedly defeated adult golfers who are much older than herself along the way.
Zhou Mengmeng's billiards career was a promising future at the time, and in 2006 she was selected for the national team to participate in the Asian Games in Qatar, with Pan Xiaoting. In the semifinals, Zhou Mengmeng lost to South Korean golfer Kim Jiaying, and before the third place competition with Pan Xiaoting, she suddenly announced her withdrawal, and then she exposed to the media that she was "sexually harassed" by her teammate Tian Pengfei before the match, causing an uproar.
For this sensational sports event, the explanation given by the Chinese Billiards Association is that at 23:00 on the eve of the semi-final, Tian Pengfei came to Zhou Mengmeng's Asian Games Village dormitory building, and after Zhou Mengmeng came out to talk, there was a quarrel, and Tian Pengfei started a conflict after he started to move. Although the team leaders were reassured, Zhou Mengmeng refused Tian Pengfei's apology and rushed into Tian Pengfei's dormitory to smash Tian Pengfei with table lamps, water cups, cans and other items.
The clash of this night directly affected the next day's match, and in the end, Zhou Mengmeng lost to her opponent by a huge margin of 1-7 and failed to advance to the final. After the game, Zhou Mengmeng summoned reporters to claim that he was beaten and harassed by Tian Pengfei before the game, and that he would withdraw from the next game.
Because this incident occurred during the Asian Games, and Zhou Mengmeng privately broke the news to reporters, it caused a relatively bad social impact, and finally the two were banned for a year. In fact, Tian Pengfei and Zhou Mengmeng have known each other for a long time, and the two have appeared together in many photos, but Zhou Mengmeng has always denied the relationship between the two.
Zhou Mengmeng said in a later interview that Tian Pengfei confessed to himself, but he refused, and the cause of the action at that time was later confirmed to be Tian Pengfei jealous because Zhou Mengmeng talked to Thai players. In fact, the two were born in 1987, and they were only 19 years old at the time, and their minds were not fully mature, so the way they handled some things was too extreme.
Zhou Mengmeng briefly took Tian Pengfei and the Billiards Center to court after being banned, and then hastily retired. After retiring, Zhou Mengmeng disappeared from public opinion for a long time, and it was not until she married China's Got Talent champion Liu Wei in 2014 that she regained attention. Zhou Mengmeng's husband Liu Wei, although he has no arms, is very talented and is known as an "armless pianist". Zhou Mengmeng gave birth to a child in 2015, and now she has long since left billiards and lived an ordinary life.
Thinking back to Pan Xiaoting, who participated in the Asian Games with her 13 years ago, she is still a focus figure both inside and outside the stadium, but Zhou Mengmeng left the billiards career early, which still makes fans feel quite sad.