World ranking: 32
Last five seasons: 26-45-104-237-UR
Date of birth: 04-06-77
Lives: Melbourne
Turned professional: 1995
Ranking tournament victories: 0
Last season’s prize money: £28,375
Career prize money: £115,975
Highest tournament break: 142

Versatile Australian Quinten Hann just managed to hang on to his top-32 place after missing six of the nine world ranking tournaments due to a broken collar bone sustained in a motorbike scrambling accident.

He returned to action in the Embassy World Championship qualifiers at Newport in March but missed out on a place at the Crucible, losing 10-9 to Stuart Bingham after leading 9-7.

Hann looked poised to cause a major upset in the fourth round of the Regal Scottish the following month when he battled back from 4-0 down to draw level at 4-4 with Ronnie O’Sullivan - despite a maximum break by his opponent - but he then lost the deciding frame.

The man from Melbourne, who lives close to the set of Aussie soap ‘Neighbours’, admits commuting from Down Under is a major problem.

But he has already reached two quarter-finals in the 1997 Thailand Open and 1998 Grand Prix and undoubtedly has the talent to go further.