Reanne Evans ‘gutted but proud’ after battle
Dudley’s Reanne Evans said she was ‘gutted’ but ‘proud’ to have gone within a frame of becoming the first woman to beat a man in the top 16 of world snooker.
Evans lost the deciding frame against world number eight Shaun Evans in the Champion of Champions event on Monday.
“I had him on the ropes a little bit at the end,” she said. “At the start I played so poorly I won a frame and got into the match a bit. I went from being nervous, embarrassed to really proud, gutted.”
Evans, 34, recorded a highest break of 51 in the biggest payday of her career, with first-round losers at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena receiving £12,500.
Evans beat Robin Hull in a World Championship qualifier in 2017, but Monday was the closest a woman has come to beating an elite male player in a televised event.
