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Mike Dunn

Mike Dunn continued his steady progress up the ranking list by climbing five spots to No 33 after the 2009/10 season. He has now jumped 21 places over the last three seasons.

The Cleveland cueman reached the last 32 of the Pukka Pies UK Championship, beating Andy Hicks and Joe Swail to qualify for the venue before losing to eventual champion Ding Junhui.

He also qualified for the Sanyuan Foods China Open thanks to wins over Chris Norbury and Steve Davis, then lost to Neil Robertson in Bejing.

The season finished in disappointment for Dunn as he lost to Stephen Lee in the final qualifying round of the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship.

The 2008 Bahrain Championship saw Dunn equal his best performance in a ranking event as he reached the last 16. In the last 32 he beat Shaun Murphy 5-4, arguably the best result of his career. His run was ended as he was edged out 5-4 by Barry Hawkins.

Dunn believes that suffering from back problems in recent years has been a blessing in disguise. “It’s forced me to play with both legs bent rather than just one leg, and that has allowed me to get the cue at a more horizontal angle, which has helped my game,” he said. "It’s amazing that what I thought was something bad for my career has turned out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to me."

Dunn reached the last 16 of a ranking tournament for the first time in his career at the 2005 Malta Cup. He whitewashed wild card Simon Zammit and David Gray 5-0 before losing 5-3 to Matthew Stevens.

He achieved one of his biggest goals in snooker by qualifying for the televised stages of the 2002 World Championship.

He came through five qualifying matches, culminating in a 10-9 victory over Billy Snaddon at Newport. "It doesn’t feel real that I’m going to Sheffield – every snooker player wants to go there, just like footballers want to play at Wembley," said Dunn after the match.

He gave Matthew Stevens a run for his money at the Crucible before going down 10-6.

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