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Jamie Burnett

Burnett’s success in reaching four venue stages during the 2008/09 season saw him rise five places in the rankings to no.40, his highest ranking for eight years.
He reached the last 32 at the Grand Prix, UK Championship, Welsh Open and the Betfred.com World Championship.
Burnett made the venue stage of one event the previous season, the Northern Ireland Trophy. Victory over David Morris put him into the first round but he was narrowly squeezed out 5-4 by Barry Hawkins.
Burnett enjoyed an excellent 2006/07 season which put him on the fringes of the top 32 of the provisional rankings.
His best run took him to the last 16 of the Welsh Open. Victories against Liu Song, Dominic Dale and Robert Milkins were followed by an impressive 5-4 defeat of two-times World Champion Mark Williams.
Burnett was thrilled by the result. "I was in a bit of a rut last season and wasn’t practising enough. I changed club to the Q Club in Glasgow and now I’m playing matches every day against Stephen Maguire, Alan McManus and Marcus Campbell which has really sharpened me up," said the Glaswegian. He just missed out on the quarter-final stage when he lost to the Malta Cup champion Shaun Murphy by the same scoreline.
In the 2004 UK Championship qualifiers, Burnett created a piece of snooker history as he made the highest break ever scored in professional competition.
Up against Leo Fernandez at Prestatyn, Burnett took the brown as an extra red after being awarded a free ball, then added the brown again and went on to pot all 15 reds with one blue, two pinks and 12 blacks. He cleared the colours to complete an amazing 148.
"I didn’t even realise I was on it until I’d got over 100 and saw that a 148 was on," said Burnett, who went on to win the match 9-8. "I didn’t really know how to react afterwards. At first I thought it was no big deal, but then I realised I’d made history."
The Scot reached the quarter-finals of the German Open in 1997 and the same stage of the Grand Prix the following year. He twice beat Stephen Hendry when he was world No 1 during the 1997-98 season.

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