If you have watched snooker for any length of time, then you will be aware of Joe Perry. He is a British player who has played snooker for many seasons. He also enjoyed a few years at the top of the sport. He made it to the Top 16 of the game in 2002. He has been in the Top 20 for three seasons.
Joe Perry has been called "The Fen Potter" and "The Gentleman". He is a Cambridgeshire native and became a professional in 1993. He has been a fulltime professional as of 2003. Ken, his brother was also a professional.
Perry is a regular presence on the world stage, although he hasn't won a major ranking competition. He finished in the top 8 provisional rankings in 2011 and won a minor-ranking competition in 2015. He made his fourth Masters appearance and was in a fight with Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Perry has participated in both the UK Championship finals as well the European Open finals. He reached the quarter-finals for the World Championship. He reached the semi-finals at the UK Championship in 2004, but lost to David Gray. The following season, he defeated Stuart Bingham and Judd Trump, but he went on to lose to Stephen Hendry in the final.
Having begun his snooker career at the age of twelve, he began to make his name as a top professional in the early 1990s. In 2001, he reached the final of the European Open. In the spring of 2001, he won his second European Open final. He then played in the 2014 Wuxi Classic.
In the same year, he defeated Matthew Stevens, Marco Fu, and Jamie Cope to reach the semi-finals in the World Championship. He was awarded his second ranking title. He was also involved in the Xuzhou Open and the Welsh Open later in the year. By the end of that season, he had dropped to a lowly 14th in the standings.
Despite falling to Stephen Hendry or Graeme Dott at the Welsh Open Masters, he is now in the top 50 of the world rankings. He won the Welsh Open Masters, Xuzhou Open and the Welsh Open Masters on his way up to the top. He has also taught people how to play the game.
He's made many attempts to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan over the course of his career. In the first round of the 2008 UK Championship, he won a 9-5 victory. He was just one frame from the Masters 2017 finals but lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
He beat Mark Selby in round one of the 2018 World Championship. He also won in 2015 the Xuzhou Open. In addition, he has a number of courses and has been a guest commentator for the BBC.