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Peter Lines

D.O.B. 11 Dec 1969

Lives Leeds

Last 5 Seasons64-UR-UR-UR-95

Turned Pro 1991

Best Ranking Performance Quarter-finals - China Open 1999, UK Championship 2009

Last season World Snooker Tour prize money
£26,750

Highest Tournament Break 141 - World Championship 1998

Lines enjoyed a phenomenal run at the 2009 Pukka Pies UK Championship, matching the best performance of his career by reaching the quarter-finals.

He had to win three matches just to get to the venue, beating Xiao Guodong, Ian McCulloch and Nigel Bond. Lines then hammered Marco Fu 9-3 in Telford before scoring the best win of his career with a 9-8 victory over twice World Champion Mark Williams.

"I'm delighted, over the moon," said Lines, who was watched by his son Oliver, the English under-14 champion. "I've been playing here like I do in the qualifiers. I was nervous at the start today but once I had a frame on the board I settled down.

"Even at 5-3 down I was enjoying it, because it's no disgrace to lose to Mark Williams. I've struggled over the years against the lower ranked players, but when you play the top boys you have nothing to lose."

That was the end of his run, however, as he lost 9-5 to Stephen Maguire.

The Yorkshireman's form deserted him in the remainder of the season as he failed to win a match in the last three ranking events, but he still finished the campaign with a leap of 14 places in the world rankings to No 50.

Lines' career was turned around by coach Steve Prest, who rescued him from the secondary circuit and helped him
finish second in the 2007/08 Pontin’s International Open Series rankings. Sadly, Prest died in 2009.

"It’s devastating," said Lines. "We turned pro at the same time and we’d been mates for 23 years. I can’t put into words how much of a loss it is. He started coaching me when I was on the PIOS a couple of years ago. I was contemplating giving up snooker but he turned my game around and I got back on to the pro Tour."

Lines reached his first ranking quarter-final at the 1999 China Open in Shanghai. He beat John Higgins 5-1 in the first round proper and Peter Ebdon 5-4 in round two before going out to Brian Morgan.

Lines reached the Crucible stage of the World Championship for the first time in 1998, losing 10-3 to John Parrott in the first round.

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