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==Early life and women's snooker== |
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===Early life=== |
===Early life=== |
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Born on 25 October 1985,<ref>{{cite web |title=Reanne Evans |url=https://wpbsa.com/player/reanne-evans/ |website=WPBSA |access-date=14 March 2024 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226000305/https://wpbsa.com/player/reanne-evans/ |url-status=live |
Born on 25 October 1985,<ref>{{cite web |title=Reanne Evans |url=https://wpbsa.com/player/reanne-evans/ |website=WPBSA |access-date=14 March 2024 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226000305/https://wpbsa.com/player/reanne-evans/ |url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Dudley]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], Reanne Evans was educated at [[Bishop Milner Catholic School]], Dudley.<ref name="BEM131204">{{cite news |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-126107440 |title=Reanne is right on cue |date=13 December 2004 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |access-date=3 May 2010 |location=England |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012093557/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-126107440/reanne-is-right-on-cue-top-title-in-the-pot |url-status=live}}</ref> Her parents and two older brothers all played snooker, and she began playing herself at age 13.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Kessel |first=Anna |date=5 March 2015 |title=Reanne Evans aims to bridge gender gap at World Snooker Championship |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/05/reanne-evans-gender-gap-world-snooker-championship |access-date=19 March 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> |
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===World Ladies Billiards and Snooker/World Women's Snooker=== |
===World Ladies Billiards and Snooker/World Women's Snooker=== |
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Evans competed in her first [[World Women's Snooker Championship]] in [[2002 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2002]], aged 16.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reanne Evans|url=https://wst.tv/players/reanne-evans/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702104612/https://wst.tv/players/reanne-evans/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2021|access-date=25 October 2021|website=World Snooker|language=en-US}}</ref> She defeated third seed [[Lynette Horsburgh]] 4–3 in the quarter-finals but lost 0–4 to eventual champion [[Kelly Fisher]] in the semi-finals.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Fisher's fourth title completes grand slam |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=31 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=June 2002 |
Evans competed in her first [[World Women's Snooker Championship]] in [[2002 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2002]], aged 16.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reanne Evans|url=https://wst.tv/players/reanne-evans/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702104612/https://wst.tv/players/reanne-evans/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2021|access-date=25 October 2021|website=World Snooker|language=en-US}}</ref> She defeated third seed [[Lynette Horsburgh]] 4–3 in the quarter-finals but lost 0–4 to eventual champion [[Kelly Fisher]] in the semi-finals.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Fisher's fourth title completes grand slam |magazine=Snooker Scene |page=31 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=June 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Harlow |first=Phil |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/2973487.stm |title=Fisher tightens grip |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |date=24 April 2003 |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012093607/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/2973487.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> She won her first ranking tournament, the Connie Gough Memorial Championship, in 2004. This was the only women's ranking event held in the 2003–04 season.<ref name=04CG /> |
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Evans won her first world championship in [[2005 World Women's Snooker Championship|2005]] with a 6–4 victory over Horsburgh in the final, which featured one frame that was replayed because of a problem with the scoring.<ref name=05SC /> She retained the title in [[2006 World Women's Snooker Championship|2006]], just six weeks before she was due to give birth, defeating [[Emma Bonney]] 5–3 in the final. She also won the 2006 [[World Women's Snooker|WLBSA]] mixed doubles title, partnering with [[Mark Allen (snooker player)|Mark Allen]] to defeat Sonia Chapman and [[Matthew Couch]] 3–0 in the final.<ref name=06SC /> |
Evans won her first world championship in [[2005 World Women's Snooker Championship|2005]] with a 6–4 victory over Horsburgh in the final, which featured one frame that was replayed because of a problem with the scoring.<ref name=05SC /> She retained the title in [[2006 World Women's Snooker Championship|2006]], just six weeks before she was due to give birth, defeating [[Emma Bonney]] 5–3 in the final. She also won the 2006 [[World Women's Snooker|WLBSA]] mixed doubles title, partnering with [[Mark Allen (snooker player)|Mark Allen]] to defeat Sonia Chapman and [[Matthew Couch]] 3–0 in the final.<ref name=06SC /> |
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In the 2007 world final, Evans was level 3–3 with [[Kate Henrick]] before winning the next two frames to claim her third successive title.<ref name="YATES07">{{cite news |last=Yates |first=Phil |title=O'Sullivan is handed clear run thanks to WPBSA delay |work=The Times |location=London |date=5 April 2007}}</ref> Evans made the highest {{cuegloss|break}} of the [[2008 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2008]] tournament, 102, and won 5–2 against [[June Banks]] in the final.<ref name="WILTS">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Jones reunited with protege in tournament |work=The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald |url=https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/2264665.jones-reunited-with-protege-in-tournament/ |date=12 May 2008 |access-date=13 March 2024 |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907005159/https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/2264665.jones-reunited-with-protege-in-tournament/ |url-status=live |
In the 2007 world final, Evans was level 3–3 with [[Kate Henrick]] before winning the next two frames to claim her third successive title.<ref name="YATES07">{{cite news |last=Yates |first=Phil |title=O'Sullivan is handed clear run thanks to WPBSA delay |work=The Times |location=London |date=5 April 2007}}</ref> Evans made the highest {{cuegloss|break}} of the [[2008 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2008]] tournament, 102, and won 5–2 against [[June Banks]] in the final.<ref name="WILTS">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Jones reunited with protege in tournament |work=The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald |url=https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/2264665.jones-reunited-with-protege-in-tournament/ |date=12 May 2008 |access-date=13 March 2024 |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907005159/https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/2264665.jones-reunited-with-protege-in-tournament/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Evans defeated [[Maria Catalano]] in four of the next five world championship finals, including a 5–2 win in [[2009 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2009]], and a 5–1 margin in [[2010 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2010]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Dunkley |first=Tim |title=Dressed to kill (and guess who's dying?) |url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8090473.dressed-to-kill-and-guess-whos-dying/ |work=The Daily Echo |location=Southampton |date=10 April 2010 |access-date=21 July 2020 |archive-date=22 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722013452/https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8090473.dressed-to-kill-and-guess-whos-dying/ |url-status=live}}</ref> A 5–1 victory against [[Emma Bonney]] in the [[2011 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2011]] final was Evans's 88th consecutive match win in women's snooker events.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Evans wins world title |work=The Times |location=London |date=14 April 2011 |page=56}}</ref> Catalano and Evans were level at 2–2 in the [[2012 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2012]] final before Evans went on to win 5–3.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Reanne Evans retains women's world title |magazine=Snooker Scene |pages=20–21 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=July 2012}}</ref> In the final against Catalano in [[2013 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2013]], Evans compiled two [[century break]]s during the match, including a 117, the highest of the tournament, and won 6–3.<ref name="PONEWS">{{cite news |last=Brawn |first=David |title=Bonney targets perfect 10 after landing another world title |url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/other-sport/brilliant-bonney-racks-up-another-world-title-1-6022756 |work=Evening News (Portsmouth) |date=19 April 2013 |access-date=6 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005235811/https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/other-sport/brilliant-bonney-racks-up-another-world-title-1-6022756 |archive-date=5 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="2013BRK">{{cite web|url=https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2013-world-ladies-snooker-championship/breaks|title=2013 World Ladies Snooker Championship – 30+ Breaks|website=snookerscores.net|publisher=World Women's Snooker|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720092559/https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2013-world-ladies-snooker-championship/breaks|url-status=live}}</ref> She won her tenth consecutive title in [[2014 Women's World Snooker Championship|2014]] with a 6–0 defeat of [[Ng On-yee]] in the final.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ladies' World snooker: Reanne Evans wins 10th title |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/27117885 |work=BBC Sport |date=22 April 2014 |access-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407135425/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/27117885 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:PHWC 2017 Finalists.jpg|thumb|alt=Two women holding snooker cues, standing at a snooker table|Evans and [[Ng On-yee]] before the final of the Paul Hunter Women's Classic 2017.]] |
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In the semi-finals of the [[2015 World Women's Snooker Championship|2015 championship]], Ng and Evans were level at 2–2, before Ng went on to win 4–2.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2015-eden-world-ladies-championship/knockout/matches|title=2015 Eden World Ladies Championship – Matches|website=snookerscores.net|publisher=World Women's Snooker|access-date=30 September 2019|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728150019/https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2015-eden-world-ladies-championship/knockout/matches|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SCENE">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ng on Yee ends Evans monopoly |magazine=Snooker Scene |pages=39 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=June 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=World Snooker: Reanne Evans criticises gender divide in sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/32506957 |publisher=BBC News |date=30 April 2015 |access-date=30 September 2019 |archive-date=28 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728150028/https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/32506957 |url-status=live |
In the semi-finals of the [[2015 World Women's Snooker Championship|2015 championship]], Ng and Evans were level at 2–2, before Ng went on to win 4–2.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2015-eden-world-ladies-championship/knockout/matches|title=2015 Eden World Ladies Championship – Matches|website=snookerscores.net|publisher=World Women's Snooker|access-date=30 September 2019|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728150019/https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2015-eden-world-ladies-championship/knockout/matches|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SCENE">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ng on Yee ends Evans monopoly |magazine=Snooker Scene |pages=39 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=June 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=World Snooker: Reanne Evans criticises gender divide in sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/32506957 |publisher=BBC News |date=30 April 2015 |access-date=30 September 2019 |archive-date=28 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728150028/https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/32506957 |url-status=live}}</ref> The pair faced each other again in the [[2016 World Ladies Snooker Championship|2016]] final, when Evans won the first frame, before Ng took the next three.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kin-wa |first=Chan |date=6 April 2016 |title=Ng On-yee loses world title to Reanne Evans |url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/1933956/ng-yee-loses-world-title-reanne-evans |work=South China Morning Post |access-date=6 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104014714/https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/1933956/ng-yee-loses-world-title-reanne-evans |archive-date=4 January 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ng led 4–3 before Evans won three frames in a row to take the match 6–4 for her eleventh world championship win.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Reanne Evans wins eleventh world title in twelve years |magazine=Snooker Scene |pages=43 |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |date=May 2006}}</ref> In [[2017 World Women's Snooker Championship|2017]], Ng eliminated Evans 5–4 in the semi-finals.<ref name="SCMP">{{cite news |last=Chan |first=Kin-wa |date=20 March 2019 |title=Hong Kong's Ng On-yee regains world title after titanic final against Vidya Pillai |url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2080351/hong-kongs-ng-yee-regains-world-title-after-titanic-final-against |work=South China Morning Post |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830085548/https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2080351/hong-kongs-ng-yee-regains-world-title-after-titanic-final-against |archive-date=30 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Evans lost again in the [[2018 World Women's Snooker Championship|2018]] semi-finals, after Catalano defeated her 5–4.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hong Kong snooker queen Ng On-yee wins third world title to set up Crucible shot |work=Hong Kong Free Press |date=20 March 2018 |access-date=1 September 2019 |url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/20/hong-kong-snooker-queen-ng-yee-wins-third-world-title-set-crucible-shot/ |archive-date=26 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826014222/https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/20/hong-kong-snooker-queen-ng-yee-wins-third-world-title-set-crucible-shot/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Evans won the 2019 Women's Tour Championship, held at the [[Crucible Theatre]], defeating [[Mink Nutcharut]] in the semi-finals and Ng in the final.<ref>[https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2019-womens-tour-championship/knockout/matches 2019 Women's Tour Championship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817123102/https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2019-womens-tour-championship/knockout/matches |date=17 August 2019}} WPBSA Tournament Manager. Retrieved 17 August 2019.</ref> She claimed her twelfth world title in [[2019 World Women's Snooker Championship|2019]], with a 6–3 win in the final against Mink.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jeremy |date=4 November 2019 |title=Reanne Evans, 12-time world snooker champion: 'It's frustrating to barely be earning a living at the top of my sport' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2019/11/04/reanne-evans-12-time-world-snooker-champion-frustrating-barely/ |work=The Daily Telegraph (London) |access-date=28 November 2019 |archive-date=7 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107032547/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2019/11/04/reanne-evans-12-time-world-snooker-champion-frustrating-barely/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She was awarded an [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in the [[2020 Birthday Honours]] for her services to women's snooker.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 October 2020 |title=Queen's Birthday Honours: Snooker great Reanne Evans made MBE |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-54477074 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525050128/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-54477074 |archive-date=25 May 2021 |access-date=10 June 2021 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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In September 2021, following an 18-month suspension of the Women's Snooker Tour due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 August 2021 |title=England's top women snooker players return to the table |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58139811 |access-date=8 April 2022 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109104303/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58139811 |url-status=live |
In September 2021, following an 18-month suspension of the Women's Snooker Tour due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 August 2021 |title=England's top women snooker players return to the table |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58139811 |access-date=8 April 2022 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109104303/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58139811 |url-status=live}}</ref> Evans won the 2021 UK Women's Championship, defeating [[Rebecca Kenna]] 4–0 in the final.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 September 2021 |title=Snooker news: Reanne Evans claims record 10th UK women's title |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/snooker/snooker-news-reanne-evans-claims-record-10th-uk-women-s-title_sto8527430/story.shtml |access-date=8 April 2022 |website=Eurosport UK |language=en}}</ref> In November 2021, she was runner-up to Ng in the Eden Women's Masters, losing the final 3–4 after having led 3–1.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 November 2021 |title=Ng Comeback Seals Masters Title |url=https://wst.tv/ng-comeback-seals-masters-title/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101154338/https://wst.tv/ng-comeback-seals-masters-title/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 January 2022 |access-date=11 April 2022 |website=World Snooker |language=en-US}}</ref> In January 2022, she lost 3–4 to Mink in the final of the British Women's Open.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 January 2022 |title=Wongharuthai Beats Evans In British Final |url=https://wst.tv/wongharuthai-beats-evans-in-british-final/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117133103/https://wst.tv/wongharuthai-beats-evans-in-british-final/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 January 2022 |access-date=11 April 2022 |website=World Snooker |language=en-US}}</ref> At the [[2022 World Women's Snooker Championship|2022 World Championship]], Evans was the defending champion, but she lost 1–4 to Belgian player [[Wendy Jans]] in the quarter-finals, the first time she had not reached at least the semi-finals of the tournament.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 February 2022 |title=Reanne Evans Out of 2022 Women's World Championship |url=https://snookerhq.com/2022/02/13/reanne-evans-out-2022-womens-world-championship/ |access-date=8 April 2022 |website=SnookerHQ |language=en-GB |archive-date=13 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213231851/https://snookerhq.com/2022/02/13/reanne-evans-out-2022-womens-world-championship/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She retained her number one place in the women's world rankings at the end of the 2021–22 season, although Ng and Mink closed the gap in ranking points.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 April 2022 |title=World Rankings – Winchester Women's Open 2022 Update |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/world-rankings-winchester-womens-open-2022-update/ |access-date=8 April 2022 |website=World Women's Snooker |language=en-GB |archive-date=5 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405134943/https://www.womenssnooker.com/world-rankings-winchester-womens-open-2022-update/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After the 2023 Asia-Pacific Women's Championship, Mink replaced Evans as world number one.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Caulfield |first=David |date=3 February 2023 |title=Mink Nutcharut becomes women's snooker number one |url=https://snookerhq.com/2023/02/03/mink-nutcharut-becomes-womens-snooker-number-one/ |access-date=18 March 2024 |website=SnookerHQ |language=en-GB}}</ref> Evans lost in the semi-finals of the [[2023 World Women's Snooker Championship|2023 World Championship]] to 19-year-old Chinese tour debutant [[Bai Yulu]], who recovered from 1–3 behind to clinch a 5–3 victory.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=3 March 2023 |title=Teenager Bai Reaches Women's Final |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/teenager-bai-reaches-womens-final/ |access-date=18 March 2024 |website=World Women's Snooker |language=en-GB}}</ref> Bai again eliminated Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals of the [[2024 World Women's Snooker Championship|2024 event]], taking five consecutive frames after Evans had established a 3–0 lead.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reanne Evans suffers agonising defeat to Bai Yulu in Women's World Snooker Championship semi-finals |website=Eurosport |date=16 March 2024 |url=https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/reanne-evans-suffers-agonising-defeat-to-bai-yulu-in-women-s-world-snooker-championship-semi-finals_sto10063891/story.shtml |access-date=16 March 2024 |archive-date=16 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316095505/https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/reanne-evans-suffers-agonising-defeat-to-bai-yulu-in-women-s-world-snooker-championship-semi-finals_sto10063891/story.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Widely recognised most successful female player in the sport's history,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Reanne Evans |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/reanne-evans/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160651/https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/reanne-evans/ |archive-date=25 October 2021 |access-date=25 October 2021 |website=World Women's Snooker |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nuns |first=Hector |title=Is this sport's greatest grudge match? Mark Allen and Reanne Evans face off after bitter split |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2021/08/15/sports-greatest-grudge-match-mark-allen-reanne-evans-face-bitter/ | |
Widely recognised most successful female player in the sport's history,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Reanne Evans |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/reanne-evans/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160651/https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/reanne-evans/ |archive-date=25 October 2021 |access-date=25 October 2021 |website=World Women's Snooker |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Nuns |first=Hector |title=Is this sport's greatest grudge match? Mark Allen and Reanne Evans face off after bitter split |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2021/08/15/sports-greatest-grudge-match-mark-allen-reanne-evans-face-bitter/ |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 August 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=http://archive.today/2021.08.15-121509/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2021/08/15/sports-greatest-grudge-match-mark-allen-reanne-evans-face-bitter/ |archive-date=2021-08-15}}</ref> with her ten consecutive Women's Snooker Championship titles from 2005 to 2014, and further titles in 2016 and 2019 for a total of 12 women's world titles, Evans surpassed [[Allison Fisher]]'s previous record of seven.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ |title=World Champions |website=womenssnooker.com |publisher=World Women's Snooker |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103004753/https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ |archive-date=3 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/history/ |title=History |website=womenssnooker.com |publisher=World Women's Snooker |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128145315/https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/history/ |archive-date=28 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Reanne Evans wins 12th Women's World Snooker Championship title |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/48739476 |work=BBC Sport |date=23 June 2019 |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623200013/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/48739476 |archive-date=23 June 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Evans has also won a record 12 UK Women's Snooker Championships,<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2023 |title=Evans Wins 12th UK Title |url=https://wst.tv/evans-wins-12th-uk-title/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927084131/https://wst.tv/evans-wins-12th-uk-title/ |archive-date=27 September 2023 |access-date=27 September 2023 |website=World Snooker |language=en-US}}</ref> and recorded the highest break on the women's tour (140 twice).<ref name=":0" /> Prior to her loss to [[Maria Catalano]] at the 2011 Northern Classic, she won a record 90 consecutive women's snooker matches.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=November 2011 |title=Catalano inflicts rare defeat on Evans |magazine=Snooker Scene |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |page=25}}</ref> |
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Born | Dudley, West Midlands, England | 25 October 1985
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Sport country | England |
Professional | 2010/2011, 2021–present |
Highest ranking | |
Current ranking | 123 (as of 7 May 2024) |
Reanne Evans MBE (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the main World Snooker Tour and the World Women's Snooker Tour; she also works as a pundit for televised snooker coverage. She is widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history. A record 12-time winner of the World Women's Snooker Championship, she is also the reigning World Mixed Doubles champion (with Luca Brecel). She received an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker.
Born in Dudley, West Midlands, Evans began playing snooker at age 13. She competed in her first World Women's Snooker Championship in 2002, aged 16, when she reached the semi-finals. She won 10 women's world titles consecutively between 2005 and 2014, and won further world titles in 2016 and 2019. Her other records on the women's tour include 12 UK Women's Snooker Championships, 58 ranking titles, and 90 consecutive victories between 2008 and 2011. She has achieved the highest break on the women's tour, having made 140 twice.
Evans received a wildcard to the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2010–11 season, becoming the first woman to compete professionally since Allison Fisher 16 years previously, but was relegated at the end of the season after 18 consecutive defeats. In 2013, she qualified for the Wuxi Classic as an amateur competitor, becoming the first woman to reach the final stages of a professional ranking snooker tournament. She received wildcards to the World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds in 2015 and from 2017 to 2021; she reached the second qualifying round in 2017 after defeating Finnish player Robin Hull 10–8.
On International Women's Day in 2021, the World Snooker Tour announced that the two top-ranked players on the women's tour—then Evans and Ng On-yee—would receive two-year professional tour cards to begin in the 2021–22 season. Evans's only victory during her first two years on the professional tour came at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out, when she defeated Stuart Bingham in the last 128, becoming the first woman to win a televised match at a ranking event. She lost her professional tour card when she ended the 2022–23 season in 126th place in the snooker world rankings. However, she ended the season at number one in the women's world rankings, which secured her a new two-year professional tour card that began in the 2023–24 season.
Early life and women's snooker
Early life
Born on 25 October 1985,[1] in Dudley, West Midlands, Reanne Evans was educated at Bishop Milner Catholic School, Dudley.[2] Her parents and two older brothers all played snooker, and she began playing herself at age 13.[3]
World Ladies Billiards and Snooker/World Women's Snooker
Evans competed in her first World Women's Snooker Championship in 2002, aged 16.[4] She defeated third seed Lynette Horsburgh 4–3 in the quarter-finals but lost 0–4 to eventual champion Kelly Fisher in the semi-finals.[5][6] She won her first ranking tournament, the Connie Gough Memorial Championship, in 2004. This was the only women's ranking event held in the 2003–04 season.[7]
Evans won her first world championship in 2005 with a 6–4 victory over Horsburgh in the final, which featured one frame that was replayed because of a problem with the scoring.[8] She retained the title in 2006, just six weeks before she was due to give birth, defeating Emma Bonney 5–3 in the final. She also won the 2006 WLBSA mixed doubles title, partnering with Mark Allen to defeat Sonia Chapman and Matthew Couch 3–0 in the final.[9]
In the 2007 world final, Evans was level 3–3 with Kate Henrick before winning the next two frames to claim her third successive title.[10] Evans made the highest break of the 2008 tournament, 102, and won 5–2 against June Banks in the final.[11] Evans defeated Maria Catalano in four of the next five world championship finals, including a 5–2 win in 2009, and a 5–1 margin in 2010.[12] A 5–1 victory against Emma Bonney in the 2011 final was Evans's 88th consecutive match win in women's snooker events.[13] Catalano and Evans were level at 2–2 in the 2012 final before Evans went on to win 5–3.[14] In the final against Catalano in 2013, Evans compiled two century breaks during the match, including a 117, the highest of the tournament, and won 6–3.[15][16] She won her tenth consecutive title in 2014 with a 6–0 defeat of Ng On-yee in the final.[17]
In the semi-finals of the 2015 championship, Ng and Evans were level at 2–2, before Ng went on to win 4–2.[18][19][20] The pair faced each other again in the 2016 final, when Evans won the first frame, before Ng took the next three.[21] Ng led 4–3 before Evans won three frames in a row to take the match 6–4 for her eleventh world championship win.[22] In 2017, Ng eliminated Evans 5–4 in the semi-finals.[23] Evans lost again in the 2018 semi-finals, after Catalano defeated her 5–4.[24] Evans won the 2019 Women's Tour Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre, defeating Mink Nutcharut in the semi-finals and Ng in the final.[25] She claimed her twelfth world title in 2019, with a 6–3 win in the final against Mink.[26] She was awarded an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker.[27]
In September 2021, following an 18-month suspension of the Women's Snooker Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[28] Evans won the 2021 UK Women's Championship, defeating Rebecca Kenna 4–0 in the final.[29] In November 2021, she was runner-up to Ng in the Eden Women's Masters, losing the final 3–4 after having led 3–1.[30] In January 2022, she lost 3–4 to Mink in the final of the British Women's Open.[31] At the 2022 World Championship, Evans was the defending champion, but she lost 1–4 to Belgian player Wendy Jans in the quarter-finals, the first time she had not reached at least the semi-finals of the tournament.[32] She retained her number one place in the women's world rankings at the end of the 2021–22 season, although Ng and Mink closed the gap in ranking points.[33] After the 2023 Asia-Pacific Women's Championship, Mink replaced Evans as world number one.[34] Evans lost in the semi-finals of the 2023 World Championship to 19-year-old Chinese tour debutant Bai Yulu, who recovered from 1–3 behind to clinch a 5–3 victory.[35] Bai again eliminated Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals of the 2024 event, taking five consecutive frames after Evans had established a 3–0 lead.[36]
Widely recognised most successful female player in the sport's history,[37][38] with her ten consecutive Women's Snooker Championship titles from 2005 to 2014, and further titles in 2016 and 2019 for a total of 12 women's world titles, Evans surpassed Allison Fisher's previous record of seven.[39][40][41] Evans has also won a record 12 UK Women's Snooker Championships,[42] and recorded the highest break on the women's tour (140 twice).[37] Prior to her loss to Maria Catalano at the 2011 Northern Classic, she won a record 90 consecutive women's snooker matches.[43]
Other international competitions
International Billiards and Snooker Federation
Evans won the IBSF Women's Snooker Championship in 2004, 2007, and 2008, with Wendy Jans the losing finalist on each occasion.[44] She did not travel to the 2009 championship in Hyderabad to defend her title as the cost of travelling would have been more than the prize money she could have earned.[45]
European Billiards and Snooker Association
Evans reached the final of the Women's EBSA European Snooker Championship in 2004, but lost 3–5 to Jans.[46] In 2007 she won the title by defeating Jans 5–2 in the final,[47] and retained it in 2008 with a 5–3 victory against Emma Bonney.[48]
World Snooker Tour
After winning 61 consecutive women's matches and defeating reigning world champion John Higgins 4–3 at the 2009 Six-red World Championship,[49] Evans was awarded a wildcard on the professional tour for the 2010–11 season, enabling her to enter all ranking events at the qualifying stage. This made her the first woman to play on the main tour since Allison Fisher in 1994–95.[50][51] Evans failed to win a match throughout her season on the tour, suffering 18 consecutive defeats.[52] She entered Q-School, but was unable to qualify for the main tour in the 2011–12 season.[53][54][55]
In the 2012–13 season, Evans won enough Q-School matches to earn a "top-up" place in the qualifying rounds for the 2013 Wuxi Classic, competing as an amateur.[56][57] In her qualifying match, she defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5–4 to become the first woman to reach the final stages of a ranking snooker tournament.[58][59] Originally scheduled to play world number two Neil Robertson in the last 64, she then became one of four players selected to play an extra wildcard round against local Chinese opponents. She lost 2–5 to Chinese teenager Zhu Yinghui in the wildcard round.[60]
In March 2015, Evans was awarded a place in the qualifying rounds of the 2015 World Snooker Championship.[61] She lost her opening match 8–10 to 1997 world champion Ken Doherty.[62]
In the qualifying rounds for the 2017 World Snooker Championship, Evans defeated Robin Hull 10–8 in the first round, calling the victory the best of her career to that point.[63] She lost 6–10 to Lee Walker in the second round of qualifying. In the next four world championships, she exited in the first qualifying round each year, losing 7–10 to Dominic Dale in 2018, 2–10 to Zhang Yong in 2019, and to Andy Hicks by 3–6 in 2020 and 2–6 in 2021.[64][65]
At the 2019 Champion of Champions, Evans became the first female player to compete in the event. She lost 3–4 to Shaun Murphy in the first round, after coming back from 0–3 down to force a deciding frame.[66]
On International Women's Day in 2021, World Snooker announced that Evans and Ng On-yee, the top-two players in the women's world rankings, would receive two-year invitational tour cards to commence in the 2021–22 snooker season.[67] In the second ranking event of the season, the British Open, Evans was drawn in the first round against Mark Allen, her former partner and father of her daughter, with whom she had a strained relationship following a dispute over child support.[68] Evans refused Allen's offer of a handshake before the match began.[69] She took a 2–1 lead and led 60–22 in the fourth frame, but Allen came back to win 3–2.[70] Evans did not win any matches during her season on the tour, which ended with a 2–6 defeat to Lee Walker in the first round of qualifying for the 2022 World Snooker Championship.[71] Following her loss to Walker, Evans posted on social media that the "last year or so has been tough on and off [the] table" but that she was "working on it".[72] She later revealed that she had experienced an intermittent lack of sensation in her arm while playing, and tremors on one side of her body, which affected her play.[73] At the end of the 2021–22 season, Evans was entered into the Snooker Hall of Fame, along with Allison Fisher, for "outstanding contributions to the growth of snooker".[74]
Evans's only victory during her two years on tour came at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out (2022–23 season),[75] when she defeated Stuart Bingham by 60 points to 8 in their one-frame encounter in the last-128 round, becoming the first woman to win a televised match at a ranking event.[76][77][78]
After losing in the first qualifying round of the 2023 World Snooker Championship, Evans ended the season ranked 126th in the snooker world rankings and was relegated from the professional tour.[79] However, she was runner-up in the 2023 British Women's Open the following month, which enabled her to end the season ranked number one in the World Women's Snooker rankings. This secured her a new two-year professional tour card to begin in the 2023–24 season.[80]
In her qualifying group at the 2023 Championship League, Evans defeated Jimmy White 3–1 and drew 2–2 with Xu Si, but having lost 0–3 to Judd Trump, she missed out on progressing to the next stage.[81] She defeated Jenson Kendrick 5–4 in the qualifying round of the 2023 European Masters, and then lost 1–5 to David Gilbert in the first round.[75] She did not win any other matches on the main tour in the 2023–24 season, although two of her other matches in qualifying rounds went to a deciding frame, as she lost 5–6 to Ryan Thomerson at the 2023 UK Championship, and 4–5 to Tian Pengfei at the 2024 German Masters.[75]
At the 2024 World Mixed Doubles, Evans and teammate Luca Brecel defeated Mark Selby and Rebecca Kenna 4–2 in the final, winning the event for the first time.[82]
Personal life
In 2005, Evans began a relationship with Northern Irish professional snooker player Mark Allen. They had a daughter, Lauren Sophie, born at Russells Hall Hospital in May 2006 when both parents were 20 years old.[83] Evans and Allen ended their relationship in 2008.[84] The end of their relationship was described as acrimonious and led to legal disputes between the two players over child maintenance payments. Allen in 2022 noted that he no longer sees his daughter Lauren, but said "I still think about her all the time".[85]
Evans has been critical of the low prize money in women's snooker, stating that she won as little as £450 for winning one of her women's world titles. In 2015, at age 29, Evans was a ten-time women's world champion, but was still living in her parents' home with her then nine-year-old daughter because she could not afford to move out.[3]
Performance and rankings timeline
World Snooker Tour
Tournament | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | |||||||||||
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Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 3] | [nb 2] | 93 | [nb 4] | |||||||||||
Ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Championship League | Non-Ranking Event | A | RR | RR | RR | ||||||||||||||||||||
European Masters | Tournament Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | 1R | ||||||||||||||||
British Open | Tournament Not Held | 1R | LQ | LQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
English Open | Tournament Not held | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||||||||||||
Wuhan Open | Tournament Not Held | LQ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Ireland Open | Tournament Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||||||||||||
International Championship | Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Not Held | LQ | ||||||||||||||
UK Championship | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | LQ | LQ | |||||||||||
Shoot Out | Non-Ranking Event | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | ||||||||||||||||
Scottish Open | Not Held | MR | Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||||||||||||
German Masters | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | |||||||||||
Welsh Open | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | |||||||||||
World Open | LQ | A | A | A | Not Held | A | A | A | A | Not Held | LQ | ||||||||||||||
World Championship | LQ | A | A | A | LQ | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | |||||||||||
Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champion of Champions | Not Held | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | |||||||||||||
Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wuxi Classic | Non-Ranking | A | WR | A | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||||||||||
Shanghai Masters | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Non-Ranking | Not Held | NR | ||||||||||||||
China Open | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||
Paul Hunter Classic | Minor-Ranking Event | LQ | 1R | A | NR | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||
Turkish Masters | Tournament Not Held | LQ | Not Held | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gibraltar Open | Tournament Not held | MR | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | Not Held | ||||||||||||||||
WST Classic | Tournament Not Held | 1R | NH | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Former non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Six-red World Championship | A | NH | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | RR | Not Held | LQ | NH |
Performance table legend | |||||
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LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
SF | lost in the semi–finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
NR / Non-Ranking event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
R / Ranking event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
MR / Minor Ranking event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |
World Women's Snooker
Tournament | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UK Championship | A | 1R | NH | F | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | A | SF | A | F | W | F | 1R | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
US Open | Tournament Not Held | A | A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | Tournament Not Held | SF | A | NH | A | A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scottish Open | A | 1R | Tournament Not Held | W | NH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Masters | Tournament Not Held | W | W | W | W | Not Held | W | W | W | W | F | W | W | F | SF | WD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Belgian Open | Tournament Not Held | W | F | NH | SF | SF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asia-Pacific Championship | Tournament Not Held | A | NH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian Women's Open | Tournament Not Held | QF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Championship | SF | SF | NH | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | SF | W | SF | SF | W | NH | QF | SF | SF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
British Open | A | LQ | NH | W | F | W | A | A | W | W | Not Held | W | Tournament Not Held | W | Not Held | F | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scottish Masters | NH | 1R | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LG Cup | A | LQ | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Welsh Open | A | 1R | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East Anglian Championship | Tournament Not Held | F | W | A | W | W | W | A | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Championship | Tournament Not Held | SF | A | Tournament Not Held | SF | A | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Championship[nb 1] | Tournament Not Held | W | SF | W | W | W | A | NH | A | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eden Classic | Tournament Not Held | W | W | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connie Gough Trophy[nb 2] | A | QF | W | A | F | SF | F | W | W | W | 1R | A | W | W | W | SF | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paul Hunter Classic | Tournament Not Held | F | W | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Masters[nb 3] | A | 1R | Tournament Not Held | W | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10-Red World Championship | Tournament Not Held | A | W | W | Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6-Red World Championship | Tournament Not Held | A | W | W | Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tour Championship | Tournament Not Held | W | Not Held | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winchester Open | Tournament Not Held | SF | Not held |
Performance Table Legend | |||||
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LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
PA / Pro-am Event | means an event is/was a pro-am event. |
Career finals
Women's finals: 89 (74 titles)
Team finals: 6 (5 titles)
References
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