World ranking: 25
Last five seasons: 32-26-45-104-237
Date of birth: 04-06-77
Lives: Melbourne
Turned professional: 1995
Best ranking event performance: Quarter-finals Thailand Open 1997, Grand Prix 1998, Liverpool Victoria UK Championship 2000
Last season's prize money: £49,000
Career prize money (up to start of 2001-2002 season): £164,975
Highest tournament break: 142 - Embassy World Championship 1997

Quinten Hann's disappointment at failing to make it past the first round of the 2001 Embassy World Championship was plain for all to see.

Beaten 10-5 by Dave Harold, the extrovert Australian said: "I don't think I've ever beaten a player inside the top 50 in the big arenas so I pretty much expected to lose. I tried my best but my game never seems to be there - I always lose on the TV tables."

Hann, who missed six of the nine world ranking tournaments staged during the 1999-2000 season due to a broken collar bone sustained in a motorcycle "superbike" racing accident, made up some of the lost ground last season.

But although he reached the quarter-finals of the UK Championship and Thailand Masters, he left the impression that there is still much more to come.

Hann had the misfortune to come up against Ronnie O'Sullivan in the first three rankings events while John Parrott denied him his first semi-final appearance in Bangkok.

The man from Melbourne, who lives close to the set of Aussie soap 'Neighbours', won the Lindrum Masters multi-cue event in New South Wales in both 1998 and 1999 and became the first overseas player to win the Embassy World 8-Ball Pool Championship in 1999.