Joe Perry is someone you've probably seen snooker for a while. British snooker player. He has had a few seasons at the lower levels of the game. But he has also had a couple of seasons in the top reaches of the game. In 2002, he made it to 16th place for the first-ever time. But he has also spent three seasons below the top 20.
Joe Perry is known as both "the Fen Potter", and "the Gentleman". He was born in the Cambridgeshire region and turned professional in 1992. He has been a full-time professional ever since. Ken, his brother was also a professional.
Perry has been a regular on the global stage, even though he has not won a major ranking event. He finished in the top 8 provisional rankings in 2011 and won a minor-ranking competition in 2015. He participated in a battle alongside Ronnie O'Sullivan this year.
Perry has participated in both the UK Championship finals as well the European Open finals. He has also qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Championship. He reached semi-finals in the UK Championship in 2004 and lost to David Gray. He defeated Stuart Bingham, Judd Trump and went on to lose in the final to Stephen Hendry.
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. He then went on to win the Welsh Open in late spring of that year. After that, he played in the Wuxi Classic in 2014.
In the same season, he beat Matthew Stevens as well as Marco Fu and Jamie Cope, reaching the semi-finals for the Masters. He was awarded his second ranking title. Later in the year, he was involved in the Welsh Open and the Xuzhou Open. He had fallen to a lowly 14th place in the standings at the end.
Despite losing to Graeme Dott and Stephen Hendry, he has managed to secure a place in the top half of the world rankings. On his way to the top, he has won the Welsh Open, the Welsh Open Masters and the Xuzhou Open. He has also taught people how to play the game.
He's tried to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan many times over his career. He won a 9-5 victory in the first round of 2008 UK Championship. He was only one frame away from winning the 2017 Masters Finals, but lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
He defeated Mark Selby, the defending champion, in the first round at the 2018 World Championship. He won the 2015 Xuzhou Open. In addition, he has a number of courses and has been a guest commentator for the BBC.