Laura Evans (snooker player)


Laura Evans is a Welsh snooker player. She has been Welsh Ladies' snooker champion three times, and was runner-up in the 2015 Eden Ladies Masters and the 2017 World Women's 10-Red Championship.

Biography

Evans started playing snooker aged 14. She started entering women's tournaments in Wales, and won her first event at 15. The following year, with a practice routine of playing around six hours a day, she started entering world ladies snooker events. Evans won Welsh Ladies Championship in three consecutive years. She stopped playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2003, following the effect of the tobacco sponsorship ban on the game. In 2014 she started playing again, at Star Snooker Club in Skewen. In 2015 entered the Eden Masters, and defeated reigning world champion Ng On-yee on the way to reaching her first ranking event final.
Evans and her playing partner Suzie Opacic were runners-up in the Women's Pairs Championship in both 2017 and 2018.
In 2019. Evans and Wendy Jans of Belgium were the "Rest of the World" team at the 2019 Women's Snooker World Cup. They won all three of their group stage matches but then lost in the quarter final to the "England A" team of Reanne Evans and Rebecca Kenna.
Evans' main career is as a support worker for women with mental health problems.

Titles and achievements

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponentScoreRef.
Semi-finalist12003Scottish Open Candide Binon1–2
Semi-finalist22003World Ladies Snooker Championship Val Finnie0–2
Semi-finalist32006East Anglian ChampionshipJune Banks0–4
Semi-finalist42013UK Ladies Championship Hannah Jones0–2
Runner-up52014Southern Classic Hannah Jones0–2
Winner62014Connie Gough Memorial Man Yan So2–0
Runner-up72015Eden Ladies MastersReanne Evans0–5
Semi-finalist82016Eden ClassicReanne Evans1–4
Semi-finalist92016LITEtask UK Ladies ChampionshipTatjana Vasiljeva1–4
Semi-finalist102017Eden Women's MastersRebecca Kenna0–4
Semi-finalist112017Connie Gough TrophyMaria Catalano1–3
Runner-up122017LITEtask World Women's 10-Red ChampionshipNg On-yee2–4
Semi-finalist132018World Women's 10-Red ChampionshipNg On-yee1–3
Winner142019World Women's 10-Red Championship Suzie Opacic2–1
Semi-finalist152019UK Women's Snooker ChampionshipReanne Evans0–4