Joe Perry is an ace snooker player. He is a British snooker player, who has spent a number of seasons at the lower end of the sport. But he has also had a couple of seasons in the top reaches of the game. He reached the Top 16 in 2002 for the first time. He has been out of the top 20 for three consecutive seasons.
Joe Perry is known as both "the Fen Potter", and "the Gentleman". He is a Cambridgeshire resident and became professional in 1992. He's been a fulltime professional since 2003. Ken, his brother, is also a professional.
Perry is a fixture on the international stage, despite not having won any major ranking events. In 2011, Perry was in the top eight provisional rankings. He also won a minor-ranking tournament in 2015. He competed with Ronnie O'Sullivan in a battle at the Masters.
Perry has reached the finals of the European Open and UK Championship. He also reached the quarter-finals at the World Championship. In 2004, he reached the semi-finals of the UK Championship, but he lost to David Gray. He defeated Stuart Bingham, Judd Trump and went on to lose in the final to Stephen Hendry.
He started his snooker career when he was twelve years old. In the early 1990s, he became a professional and a well-respected player. He reached the finals of the European Open in 2001. In the spring of 2001, he won his second European Open final. In 2014, he participated in the Wuxi Classic.
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 won his second ranking title. He participated in the Xuzhou Open as well as the Welsh Open later that year. At the close of that season, his standings had fallen to a disappointing 14th.
Despite losing out to Stephen Hendry as well as Graeme Dott in the Welsh Open Masters, he was able to earn a spot in the top ten of the world rankings. On his way to the top, he has won the Welsh Open, the Welsh Open Masters and the Xuzhou Open. And he has also run courses to teach 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 during the first round, 2008 UK Championship. He was only one frame away from winning the 2017 Masters Finals, but lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
He beat Mark Selby in round one of the 2018 World Championship. He won the Xuzhou Open 2015 as well. He has also been a guest commentator at the BBC and has taught many courses.