World ranking: 18
Last five seasons: 29-45-43-40-40
Date of birth: 24-11-68
Lives: Rutherglen.
Turned professional: 1991
Best ranking event performance: Semi-final China Open 2000, Semi-final Regal Scottish 2001
Last season's prize money: £66,050
Career prize money (up to start of 2001-2002 season): £264,460
Highest tournament break: 142 - British Open 1992

Drew Henry had to wait ten years to reach his first major semi-final - then two came along in the space of three months.

Henry began his rich vein of form in the UK Championship at Bournemouth, beating Alan McManus and Dominic Dale on his way through to the quarter-finals, where he went out 9-6 to fellow Scot John Higgins.

He went one step further in the China Open at Mission Hills. He whitewashed Matthew Stevens 5-0 in the quarter-finals and then led world No 1 Mark Williams 5-4 in the semis only to lose 6-5.

Henry took his revenge on Higgins in the last 16 of the Regal Scottish in Aberdeen, then beat Stevens again in the last eight before going down 6-4 to Peter Ebdon.

But for a 10-5 defeat by Marcus Campbell in the final qualifying round of the Embassy World Championship, Henry would have broken into the elite top 16.

"My aim at the start of the season was to consolidate my position in the top 32. It would have been great to break into the top 16 but maybe that was too big a step to take," he said.

"It has been a funny season. I've reached two semi-finals and a quarter-final yet I couldn't win a match for three months."

Henry clinched a top-32 place at the end of the 1999-2000 season by reaching the second round of the World Championship.

Victories over Leigh Griffin (10-6), Matthew Couch (10-9) and Jamie Burnett (10-3) booked his third visit to the Crucible, where he beat Mark King 10-8 and then gave eventual winner Williams a run for his money before going down 13-9.

Henry made his Crucible debut in 1994 and almost pulled off a shock victory against John Parrott. The 1991 world champion looked to be on his way out until Henry suffered an horrendous 'kick' in the deciding frame, which allowed his opponent to get back to the table and sneak a 10-9 win. He returned to Sheffield two years later only to lose to Darren Morgan.