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Diana Khodjaeva (born 26 August 1998) is a Belgian pool player. Khodjaeva is a former junior WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, having won the girls event in 2012. Khodjaeva represented Europe at the Atlantic Challenge Cup in 2017 against the United States team. Khodjaeva is a two time European champion.
Career
The following year, Khodjaeva won the junior girls event at the world championships, defeating Karen Garcia 7-3 in the semi-final, and winning the final 7-0 over Poland's Oliwia Czupryńska. Khodjaeva would reach the final again in 2014, but this time lose the final to Liu Yuchen 9-3.
Khodjaeva first appeared at an adult world championship at the 2009 Womens WPA World Nine-ball Championship, at aged 13, but didn't win a match until the 2011 event, where she reached the last 32. She would also reach the last 32 stage at the women's event in 2015, before losing 9-1 to Kim Ga-young. Khodjaeva would also make an appearance at the 2016 Kremlin World Cup, but be eliminated in the second loser's round.
Khodjaeva represented Europe at the 2017 Atlantic Challenge Cup, before retiring from pool until 2019, where she entered the 2019 Austria Open, winning six games and reaching the quarter-finals, before losing 7-3 to Veronika Hubrtova. Khodjaeva is a two time winner at the European Pool Championships, winning the 10-ball event in 2015, and 9-Ball event in 2016. She also competed for the junior national team, at both the European Youth Championships 2014 and 2015 with which she won the bronze medal in 2014.