World ranking: 19
Last five seasons: 25-30-33-58-190
Date of birth: 12-05-77
Lives: Larkhall, Glasgow
Turned professional: 1994
Ranking tournament victories: 0
Last season’s prize money: £48,760
Career prize money: £193,465
Highest tournament break: 147

Graeme Dott came of age as a snooker professional during the 1998-99 season when he reached his first major final and then compiled his first maximum break in front of the television cameras.

Victories over Jimmy Michie (5-4), Quinten Hann (5-2), John Parrott (5-4), Paul Hunter (5-4) and Ken Doherty (6-5) took him all the way to the final of the Regal Scottish in Aberdeen.

But he had nothing left to give against Stephen Hendry as he went down 9-1.

“Having to survive so many close games definitely took a toll.

"Now I realise, if I didn’t before, what a high degree of consistency is needed to win the world championship when there are so many more frames played over a 17-day haul,” he said after collecting a cheque for £32,000 - the biggest pay-day of his career.

Dott’s 147 came during his first round match against David Roe in the 1999 British Open at Plymouth and earned him a Vauxhall Vectra car worth £20,000.

The Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre has proved a lucky venue for the Scot.

He again reached the semi-finals of the 2000 Regal Scottish before going out 6-5 to Ronnie O’Sullivan after leading 4-0.

But his hopes of a top-16 place were dashed by Steve Davis at Sheffield as he lost their first-round contest in the Embassy World Championship 10-6.