Reanne Evans
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Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player and regular pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she has won the World Women's Snooker Championship a record 12 times and is 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, where she reached the semi-finals. She won the women's world title a record 10 consecutive times between 2005 and 2014 and added further women's 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. Granted a wildcard to the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2010–11 season, she became 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. Granted wildcards to the World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds in 2015 and from 2017 to 2021, she reached the second qualifying round in 2017 by 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 when she defeated Stuart Bingham in the last 128 of the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out, becoming the first woman to win a televised match at a ranking event. Despite being relegated from the professional tour at the end of the 2022–23 season, she ended the season as the women's world number one, which secured her a new two-year professional tour card for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 seasons. At the 2024 English Open, Evans faced Mink Nutcharut, the first time two women had played each other in a professional match. Following her defeat in the 2025 World Snooker Championship qualifiers, Evans lost her professional tour card, but she was subsequently awarded a new tour card for the following two seasons as one of the two eligible players from the women's tour.