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Mike Dunn

Mike Dunn continued his climb up the ranking list with some fine results during the 2008/09 season.
His best run came in the Bahrain Snooker Championship, as wins over Joe Delaney and Gerard Greene in the qualifying rounds put him through to the venue stages of the first ranking tournament ever staged in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Dunn then saw off wild card Ahmed Abdulla Aseeri 5-0 before edging out Shaun Murphy 5-4, arguably the best result of his career. His run was ended in the last 16 as he was edged out 5-4 by Barry Hawkins.
By the end of the season, the Cleveland cueman had moved nine places up the official ranking list to No 38, and starts the 09/10 campaign even higher on the one-year list at No 35.
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.
Wins in the qualifying rounds over Leo Fernandez, Michael Judge and Marco Fu saw him through to the final stages at the Hilton Conference Centre in Portomaso. He then 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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