Pierre "Perrie" Mans was a South African professional snooker player.
12 Facts About Perrie Mans
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Perrie Mans first won the South African Professional Championship in 1965 and lifted the title 20 times.
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Perrie Mans' father, Peter Perrie Mans, who died in 1975, was a professional snooker player, making the quarter-finals of the 1950 World Snooker Championship.
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Perrie Mans won the South African Amateur Championship in 1960, the only occasion in which he competed in the event.
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Perrie Mans then turned professional and took the South African Professional Championship from Fred Van Rensburg in 1965.
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Perrie Mans reached number two in the world rankings as a result; at that time rankings were based purely on the world championships of the three previous seasons.
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However, Perrie Mans then completed a clearance of 62 to win frame and match.
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Perrie Mans played in only two ranking events the following season, failing to win any matches he slumped to fiftieth in the world rankings.
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Perrie Mans announced his retirement from professional snooker in July 1987 at the age of 46.
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In 1997, Perrie Mans returned briefly to the UK snooker scene after a twelve-year hiatus, participating in the "Seniors" Pot Black special on BBC2 timed to coincide with the 1997 World Championship, which marked the 20th anniversary of the tournament being held at the Crucible Theatre.
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Perrie Mans returned again to play in the seniors event in the autumn of 2000, losing his first match 82 points to 13 to Canadian Jim Wych.
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Perrie Mans died on 13 September 2023, at the age of 82.