Joe Perry is a snooker player you are likely to have seen for some time. British snooker players, Perry has spent many seasons at the bottom end of the sport. He has also been a player in the upper reaches of the game for a few years. In 2002, he reached the Top 16 for the first time. He has been in the Top 20 for three seasons.
Joe Perry is known as both "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 older brother, is also a professional.
Perry has been a constant fixture on the global stage, despite never having won a major ranking contest. Perry finished within the top eight provisional rankings in 2011, and won a minor ranking event in 2015. He made his fourth Masters appearance and was in a fight with Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Perry has played in the finals of both the UK Championship and the European Open. He also reached the quarter-finals at the World Championship. He reached the semi finals of the UK Championship in 2004, but was defeated by David Gray. He beat Judd Trump in the semi-finals, but lost to Stephen Hendry at 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. He reached the finals of the European Open in 2001. In late spring 2001, he won the Welsh Open. After that, he played in the Wuxi Classic in 2014.
The same year, he beat Matthew Stevens, Marco Fu and Jamie Cope in the first round of the World Championship, and reached the semi-finals of the Masters. He received his second ranking award. He also participated in the Xuzhou Open, and the Welsh Open. He fell to a 14th-place finish at the end.
Despite losing to Stephen Hendry (Graeme Dott) and Stephen Hendry, he still managed to place in the top half 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 conducted courses to help others learn the game.
He's made many attempts to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan over the course of his career. He won a 9-5 victory at the UK Championship's first round in 2008. He was one frame away from the finals of the Masters in 2017, but he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
In the first round of the 2018 World Championship, he beat defending champion Mark Selby. He also won 2015's Xuzhou Open. He is also a frequent guest commentator on BBC programmes and has taken a number courses.