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Barry Pinches

Pinches had a mixed campaign in 2008/09. He qualified for the final stages of two events but was unable to get through his first round match in four others. He finished two places down the rankings at  No 52
He did make it through to the last 16 of the Bahrain Snooker Championsip. Pinches qualified by beating Stefan Mazrocis and Fergal O’Brien. In the Kingdom of Bahrain, he saw off wildcard Ahmed Goulam and Graeme Dott before losing to another Scot, Stephen Hendry.
He also had the distinction of being the first player during the season to beat Bristol’s Judd Trump in a qualifying match, this time in the Welsh Open. That victory was followed up by another over Jamie Cope before Shaun Murphy halted his progress in the last 32.
Pinches came off second best in an epic contest with legend Stephen Hendry at the Crucible in 2004. He recovered from 7-4 down to lead 11-9, only for the Scot to pull back to 12-12 then edge the deciding frame. Hendry admitted: "I’ve had some battles here over the years but that can go pretty near the top of the list."
At the 2003 UK Championship, Pinches thrashed Marco Fu 9-1 then beat Graeme Dott 9-6 and Stephen Lee 9-6 to reach the quarter-finals of a ranking event for the first time in his career. But he was no match for Hendry and went down 9-3.
The Norwich City fan, who sports a distinctive green and yellow waistcoat, was English Amateur champion in 1988 and runner-up to James Wattana in the World Amateur Championship the same year.
His coach Stephen Feeney invented the SightRight device to help with alignment.

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