In 1982, Pan Xiaoting was born in Yanzhou, Shandong Province, and began to learn to paint at the age of 3, often painting all day. At that time, she developed the habit of being alone and focused, laying the foundation for her to play billiards in the future, because billiards requires a very calm and focused mind.
Her father Pan Jian likes new things, in the 80s, when billiards began to be popularized, Pan Jian began to be obsessed with billiards, with self-study, quickly mastered a lot of billiards skills, and later won the Yanzhou billiards champion, with the reputation of "Pan Yi".
Pan Xiaoting grew up watching her father play billiards, and although she admired his skills, she had never played billiards. At that time, there was not a lot of support for the sport, as if only those "bad boys" would play. Pan Xiaoting didn't want to touch it either, because her dream was to become a painter.
In 1997, 15-year-old Pan Xiaoting applied for an academy of fine arts, but eventually fell behind. Pan Xiaoting's 12 years of hard work, the painter's dream was hit, and she cried all day. Her mother suggested going to high school, but she didn't like to read. Finally his dad said:
"It's nothing if you don't get in, let's find another way, you learn to play billiards with me."
After Pan Xiaoting heard this, she immediately stopped crying, and her heart seemed to be relieved. Pan Xiaoting's painter dream is gone, and the hope of billiards dream is rising.
While God closes a door, he also opens a window for you.
Pan Xiaoting, a student in the American Courtyard, began to learn billiards with her father. Since then, the utility room in his father's ball hall has an extra single bed, which has become Pan Xiaoting's exclusive resting place. Dad asked her to practice for 8 to 12 hours a day, no weekends, only half a day off for a week, and in this way, Pan Xiaoting began to practice billiards hard.
But at that time, the child's playing billiards was regarded as not doing his job, and the people around him did not understand it, and some scolded Pan Dad:
"Old Pan, there is a problem with the brain, billiards such a roadside stall, how can a girl learn this kind of thing."
And Pan Xiaoting was ridiculed as a "bad girl", and the contempt of others made Pan Xiaoting very sad, and she practiced under this pressure.
Pan Xiaoting started practicing snooker and didn't know there were nine goals at the time. After practicing for half a year, I once watched a snooker game on TV and listened to the commentary mention that a women's game was going to be held. After understanding, they learned that it was a women's nine-ball game, which was the first time they heard about nine-ball, but Pan's father encouraged her to participate in the trial, so he signed up.
For a person who has only been practicing for half a year, he has not even understood the nine-ball rule, and he is going to participate in the national competition, and there is a kind of momentum that the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger. In this way, Pan Xiaoting will have to pay more efforts than others.
After signing up, because the family did not have money to buy a nine-ball table, Pan Dad modified an ordinary table. Because Pan Dad used to do carpentry, most of the tables in the kick-off hall were made by his own hands.
Pan Dad not only did a good carpentry, but also a strict coach. Now that you have registered for the game, you must strengthen your training. Pan Dad asked her to practice at least 12 hours a day, playing for a long time, which was very boring, but also very tired, especially bitter. At the end of the day, Pan Xiaoting felt that the muscles in her body were about to stiffen, and she didn't want to move.
Pan Xiaoting, who did not have a day of rest, was very depressed in her heart. Thinking of girls of the same age, she can go to play, go shopping, and play freely, and she can only spend all her time practicing. She could only cry and write these thoughts in her diary, because as soon as she saw her father's serious expression, she did not dare to complain to him.
Pan Xiaoting pondered how to let her father know his thoughts? There was still a way, she did not lock the diary, but deliberately let her mother find out. Soon, Pan Dad let her half a day off to go shopping.
After Pan Dad saw her diary, he was very distressed, but he knew that he still couldn't relax on her and still had strict requirements. Later, Papa Pan said in this matter:
"I didn't know what was going on in her heart, and after reading her diary, it touched me a lot. But as a father and coach, my heart has to be hard. ”
Pan Xiaoting's training has also begun to become more and more bitter, and if she wants to do her best, she must let others pay more and sacrifice more, so that she can catch up with and surpass others.
Near the competition, Pan Dad took Pan Xiaoting to Beijing to prepare for the competition, because he was poor, he could only live in the basement of 15 yuan a day. At this time, Pan Dad arranged more difficult training for her, and once, Pan Xiaoting couldn't walk away from practicing, squatting on the ground crying and saying to her father: "Are you my father?" If you don't bring me down one day, you're not happy! ”
Pan Dad looked at his aggrieved daughter, his heart hurt even more, and he could only comfort her:
"The people who hurt you the most under the heavens are me and your mother, you have to be the person on the tip of the pyramid, you can't eat the suffering that others can't eat, and you can't reach the top of the tower."
Pan Xiaoting slowly began to understand her father's good intentions, no longer complained, and prepared for the game wholeheartedly.
In this competition, Pan Xiaoting is the youngest among the 64 players, the shortest practice time, and the strength should not be too strong.
However, to everyone's surprise, Pan Xiaoting reached the final all the way and finally won the championship! What's even more amazing is that she can't see a little nervous performance in the whole competition, and after winning the championship and receiving the award, she is still a very calm face.
Pan Dad felt very incredible, a 16-year-old girl won the championship for the first time, and actually maintained a calmer state than adults.
But the truth is that Pan Xiaoting is not nervous, but too nervous, already nervous to the point of numbness, so there is no wave of expression on her face.
But in any case, Pan Xiaoting showed a talent for playing billiards, and in that game, her skills may not be the best, but she behaved very calmly.
As a result, Pan Xiaoting officially began her nine-ball career, and won the championship for the first time, which can be described as the peak of her debut.
In the next few years, Pan Xiaoting almost won the championship in the women's nine-ball competition in China. At this time, she set her sights on foreign countries.
In 2002, the 20-year-old Pan Xiaoting became famous in Osaka, Japan, and she defeated world number one Nobumi Yanagi in the 35th Nine-Ball Open tournament to win the championship, the first time on the world's highest stage.
Pan Xiaoting later participated in many international competitions such as the Asian Games and the World Championships, and achieved great results. In 2013, at the age of 30, Pan Xiaoting won the 10th world championship of her career and was known as the "Nine-Ball Queen".
Looking back at Pan Xiaoting's nine-ball career, she grew up with the Chinese nine-ball and eventually became a nine-ball diva, and the process was extremely difficult.
Pan Xiaoting said: "The club is the other half of my life." The club is alive, and in the process of her hard practice day and night, the club has melted into her mind and reached the state of "human parity".
Pan Xiaoting has been practicing billiards since the early 90s, and at that time it was considered to be unruly, and it was a game of "bad girls". Under heavy pressure, she chose a different life path from others, persevered with her love of billiards, and finally proved that her choice was correct.
Yes, she succeeded, she blossomed under great pressure, in arduous training, and 15 years later became a "nine-ball diva" and realized her dream.
Not everyone can become a "queen of heaven", but they can adhere to their love and hard work to live this life.