About Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2004 British Open and the semi-finals of the 2005 Welsh Open. He has spent twenty successive seasons ranked inside the top 32. Hawkins reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open. Hawkins has played in 13 ranking finals and won five ranking titles. Hawkins played in the televised stages of every World Championship between his Crucible Theatre debut in 2006 and his failure to qualify in 2023. He lost in the first round on his first five appearances but reached the second round in 2011 and 2012. Rated an 80–1 outsider for the 2013 World Snooker Championship, he reached the final. Hawkins has since reached the semi-finals of the World Championship in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. He was runner-up in the Masters in 2016 and 2022 and in the UK Championship of 2024. At the World Championship in Sheffield, however, Hawkins faced former champion Ken Doherty in the first round but lost 1–10.
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