Peter Lines
Peter Lines ( born December 11, 1969 in Leeds ) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
The professional career of Peter Lines began 1991 by qualifying for the Snooker Main Tour. Twice he was able to defend its position among the best snooker players, then he lost his professional status. Mid-90s, he played with the amateur tournaments and in 1996 was the final of the English Amateur Championships.
Then he succeeded again to return to the professional tour and he could better this time claiming. 1998 Lines managed to qualify for the main round of the World Snooker Championship and the following year he reached at the China International with the quarter-finals his best finish at a Main Tour tournament. He defeated in the first round even the leaders in the world rankings John Higgins. At the end of the season he had achieved his highest position in the world ranking with number 42.
This power he could not confirm, however, in the sequence. He could indeed hold in the next five years on the tour, but dropped out for the second time from among the professionals.
Although Lines already approached the 40, he sought again after his return, and worked together with the famous coach Steve Prest. In 2008, he then succeeded again to return to the tour and after a year he was able to qualify again for the top 64. His ascent is made in the following year continued when he failed to qualify for the main round of the second most important tournament of the tour, the UK Championship. In the first round, where he managed a win against last year's finalists and number eight in the world rankings Marco Fu and then he could also still just enforce against ranked Fifteenth Mark Williams, which he penetrated for the second time in his career to the quarter- finals of a ranking tournament had.
Private
Peter Lines is married and has two children. His son Oliver won the 2009 U14 Snooker Championships of England.