World ranking: 14
Last five seasons: 19-25-30-33-58
Date of birth: 12-05-77
Lives: Larkhall, Glasgow
Turned professional: 1994
Ranking tournament victories: 0
Last season’s prize money: £51,500
Career prize money: £244,965
Highest tournament break: 147

A semi-final finish in the Grand Prix and a place in the top 16 were the rewards for another solid season for the progressive Graeme Dott.

The Glaswegian will be looking to claim a place in the top ten this term and he has demonstrated in the past he has the ability to test some of the game’s leading lights.

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.