Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Cope ya fara kakar 2011-12 tare da rashin nasara a zagaye na farko a gasar Australian Goldfields Open
da rashin nasara a zagaye na biyu a Masters na Shanghai, wanda ya sa ya rasa matsayinsa a cikin manyan 16 bayan yankewa na farko a cikin Oktoba, kamar yadda aka sanya shi lamba 18. &lt;ref name="2011/12"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; Saboda haka, yanzu ana buƙatar Cope ya ci wasan neman cancanta don isa babban zane na abubuwan da suka faru. Ya kasa yin wannan a cikin gasa uku masu zuwa, ya yi rashin nasara ga Joe Jogia, Yu Delu da Ken Doherty, a ƙoƙarin cancanta ga Gasar Burtaniya, Masters na Jamus da Welsh Open bi da bi. Cope ya dakatar da cin hanci da rashawa ta hanyar doke Jamie Burnett don samun wuri a cikin Open Open, wanda aka gudanar a Haikou, China. Ya buga Martin Gould a zagaye na farko kuma, bayan ya sami kansa 2 zuwa 4 a baya, ya samar da dawowa don cin nasarar firam uku na ƙarshe don kafa rikici na karshe na 16 tare da John Higgins. Cope ba zai iya ci gaba da gudana a gasar ba, duk da haka, wanda ya yi nasara a gasar zakarun duniya. Cope kuma ya cancanci zuwa China Open, amma a wannan lokacin ya kasance a ƙarshen ƙarshen 4 × 5, kamar yadda Neil Robertson ya fitar da shi a zagaye na farko. Lokacin Cope ya ƙare ba da daɗewa ba bayan wannan, kamar yadda ya yi hasara a cikin cancantar zuwa Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya ga Liu Chuang. Ya kasance mai lamba 27 a duniya, ma'ana ya sauka wurare 12 a cikin shekara, mafi yawan kowane ɗan wasan da ya gama kakar a cikin manyan 32.