Player Profile - Robert Milkins
DOB: 06 Mar 1976
Lives: Gloucester
Provisional Ranking: 59th (Main Tour) Ranking Points this Season
Last 5 Seasons: 32-26-28-21-33
Turned Pro: 1995
Best Ranking Performance: Semi-finals – Failte Ireland Irish Masters 2005
Last Seasons Prize Money: £17,475
Career Prize Money: (up to start of 2008/09 season): £306,750
Highest Tournament Break: 147 - 888.com World Snooker Championship 2006

Another disappointing season for Milkins sees him drop further down the rankings. Two qualifying victories all season in the Maplin UK Championship and the Honghe Industrial China Open are not the form to see him return to the top 32having spent four successive years there. He is down to 51 in the rankings.
In 2006/07 his best effort came at the Royal London Watches Grand Prix where he progressed from the group stage before losing to Jamie Cope in the last 16.
Milkins, an aggressive break-builder who has been compared to Tony Drago for his speed around the table, has figured in one ranking semi-final – and came agonisingly close to going even further. He beat Marco Fu, Paul Hunter and Dave Harold to reach the last four of the 2005 Irish Masters at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin and played superbly to lead Matthew Stevens 8-5.
His best chance to wrap up victory came in the 15th frame but he ran out of position on 54. Stevens made an amazing clearance to claw back to 8-7 then won the last two frames to complete the comeback.
"I’d done all the hard work and I thought I deserved to win. I played well and my safety was brilliant. At least I proved that I can play well on a big stage and it’s a good tournament for me to reach the semi-finals," said Milkins, who has also been a quarter-finalist at the UK Championship.
Milkins certainly has no shortage of self-confidence. "If I could play to my potential I would be winning tournaments," he once said.
He set a piece of snooker history in 2006 when he became the first player to make a maximum 147 in the qualifying rounds of the World Championship. But he lost that match against Mark Selby in the 888.com event.

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