Player Profile - Barry Pinches
DOB: 13 Jul 1970
Lives: Norwich, Norfolk
Provisional Ranking: 36th (Main Tour) Ranking Points this Season
Last 5 Seasons: 56-33-18-21-36
Turned Pro: 1989
Best Ranking Performance: Quarter-finals – UK Championship 2003, Grand Prix 2005
Last Seasons Prize Money: £22,600
Career Prize Money: (up to start of 2008/09 season): £316,060
Highest Tournament Break: 147 – Welsh Open 2000

After several lean seasons, Pinches moved back up the snooker ladder last term with a much-improved set of results.
He won his opening match in six of the seven ranking events – in contrast to 2006/07 when he won only one match during the campaign. His best run took him to the last 16 of the Honghe Industrial China Open. After winning three qualifying matches to get to Beijing, he beat Zhang Anda 5-1 and world No 2 Graeme Dott 5-1 before losing by the same scoreline to Nigel Bond.
Pinches also got to the final qualifying round of the 888.com World Snooker Championship, but Bond denied him a place at the Crucible.
Norfolk’s leading player finished the season up six places in the rankings to No 50, and up to No 36 on the provisional list.
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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