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Barry Hawkins

Hawkins reached the last 16 of just one ranking event during the 2009/10 season, and ended up dropping four places to No 21 in the world.
After winning his qualifying match to reach the venue stage of the Roewe Shanghai Masters, he was lucky enough to get a bye to the last 16 after Stephen Maguire pulled out with a shoulder injury. Hawkins then pushed Ken Doherty all the way before losing 5-4.
The Dartford cueman finished the season at the Crucible after beating Ian McCulloch 10-7 in the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship qualifiers. But his fifth appearance at Sheffield’s most famous snooker venue ended in a fifth first round defeat as he went down 10-6 to John Higgins.
He did win an event in the short-lived Pro Challenge Series, beating Michael Holt 5-1 in the final of event five.
Hawkins won the qualifying tournament for the 2008 Masters at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. He beat the likes of Nigel Bond and Jamie Cope to reach the final then saw off Kurt Maflin 6-4.
He has reached the semi-finals of four ranking events, most recently at the 2007 China Open in Beijing. He beat home favourite Ding Junhui, Joe Swail and Ken Doherty to set up a semi-final with Jamie Cope, but lost 6-5 on the final black after Hawkins had agonisingly rattled his attempted pot in the jaws of a baulk corner.
The player nicknamed the Hawk reached two ranking semi-finals during the 2005/06 season. The first was at the Grand Prix at the Guild Hall in Preston, losing narrowly 6-5 to Ronnie O’Sullivan, despite recording a career high 145 break in that game.
At the Welsh Open in Newport, Hawkins accounted for Stephen Hendry on his way to the last four but could not cope with Shaun Murphy, losing 6-1.
The Dartford player’s first semi-final came at the 2005 Welsh Open when he saw off Ebdon and Paul Hunter but was denied a final spot by O’Sullivan, losing 6-4.
The former office clerk first made a name for himself at the 2002 Scottish Open when he knocked out O’Sullivan.
Throughout his teenage years, Hawkins played the cello drums in a local band which played regular concerts in a shopping centre in Wapping and even one in Hyde Park.
"We did the Blue Danube, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Pomp and Circumstance, those sort of tunes," he said. "We were pretty good, I reckon I could pick it up again pretty easily if I tried."
In January 2009, Hawkins’ wife Tara gave birth to their first child, a son called Harrison. 

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