World ranking: 24
Last five seasons: 21-18-25-25-30
Date of birth: 26-09-73
Lives: Leith, Edinburgh
Turned professional: 1991
Best ranking event performance: Semi-finals Regal Welsh 1995, Grand Prix 1998
Last season's prize money: £53,600
Career prize money (up to start of 2001-2002 season): £308,610
Highest tournament break: 141 - European Open 1997, 2001 Embassy world championship (QRd)

Former bank clerk Chris Small opened his Crucible account in 1992 - his first season as a professional - but then had to wait seven years to get back to Sheffield.

He beat Anthony Hamilton 10-9 in the first round of the 1999 Embassy World Championship and then gave John Parrott a major scare in the second round before going down 13-12. "Chris just won't let go," said Parrott of his opponent.

Small reached the last 16 again in 2001 after outstaying Hong Kong's Marco Fu 10-8 in a gruelling battle but was beaten 13-8 by fellow Scot John Higgins for a place in the quarter-finals.

Winner of the Benson and Hedges Championship in 1992, Small has yet to reach the final of a world ranking tournament. He was beaten at the semi-final stage of the 1995 Regal Welsh and the 1998 Grand Prix.