 Consequently, Baker suffered from bouts of depression that his illness had struck just as his career was progressing, and it took two years before he accepted his situation.Baker began the 2009 season playing on the futures tour, but won just twice in his first six tournaments of the year.In July he reached the semi-final of the Gyeongsan event in Korea and in August reached the same stage of two tournaments in Thailand, before winning the event in Nonthaburi, Thailand at the end of the month.