Ga-Young Kim

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Ga-Young Kim

Born	January 13, 1983 (1983-01-13) (age 25), Korea
Nationality	Korean
Nickname(s)	Little Devil Girl
Professional	2003—?

Ga-Young Kim (born January 13, 1983 in Seoul) is a Korean professional billiards player who plays on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) tour. Her father began teaching Ga-Young to play three-cushion billiards (a form of carom billiards) when she was about 12 years old. After playing three-cushion for about 3 years she started playing nine-ball pool and turned pro at the 2003 BCA Open.

Ga-Young practices about 30 hours a week and enjoys a friendly rivalry with fellow Asian WPBA player Pan Xiaoting from China, who is a year older and a few inches shorter. Kim and Pan met in the finals of the 2007 Carolina Women's Billiard Classic, with Kim prevailing 7 to 6 in the WPBA's first all-Asian championship match [1]. Kim and Pan finished the 2007 WPBA season ranked 2nd and 3rd, respectively, behind perennially top-ranked Allison Fisher. In January 2008 Kim began using (and entered into an endorsement agreement with) K.F. Cues [2], a Taiwan-based company.