After winning 61 consecutive women's matches and defeating reigning world champion John Higgins 4–3 at the 2009 Six-red World Championship, Evans was awarded a wild card on the professional main 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 snooker tour since Allison Fisher in 1994–95.
Evans failed to win a match throughout her season on the tour, suffering 18 consecutive defeats.
 She entered Q-School, but was unable to qualify for the main tour in the 2011–12 season.

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.
In her qualifying match, she defeated Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5–4 to become the first woman to reach the final stages of a professional ranking snooker tournament.
Originally scheduled to play world number 2 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 traveled to Wuxi and played Chinese teenager Zhu Yinghui in the wildcard round, but lost 2–5.

In March 2015, Evans was awarded a place in the qualifying rounds of the 2015 World Snooker Championship.
She lost her opening match 8–10 to 1997 world champion Ken Doherty.

In the qualifying rounds for the 2017 World Snooker Championship, Evans defeated Robin Hull 10–8 in the first round.
Evans stated that the victory was the best of her career, against an opponent she called "amazing".
She lost 6–10 to Lee Walker in the second round of qualifying.

In the qualifying rounds for the 2018 World Snooker Championship, she lost 7–10 to Dominic Dale in the first round.
In the 2019 qualifiers, she lost 2–10 to Zhang Yong in the first round.
In the 2020 qualifiers, she lost 3–6 to Andy Hicks in the first round.
After winning 61 consecutive women's matches and defeating reigning world champion John Higgins 4–3 at the 2009 Six-red World Championship, Evans was awarded a wild card on the professional main 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 snooker tour since Allison Fisher in 1994–95. Evans failed to win a match throughout her season on the tour, suffering 18 consecutive defeats.  She entered Q-School, but was unable to qualify for the main tour in the 2011–12 season.
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. In her qualifying match, she defeated Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5–4 to become the first woman to reach the final stages of a professional ranking snooker tournament. Originally scheduled to play world number 2 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 traveled to Wuxi and played Chinese teenager Zhu Yinghui in the wildcard round, but lost 2–5.
In March 2015, Evans was awarded a place in the qualifying rounds of the 2015 World Snooker Championship. She lost her opening match 8–10 to 1997 world champion Ken Doherty.
In the qualifying rounds for the 2017 World Snooker Championship, Evans defeated Robin Hull 10–8 in the first round. Evans stated that the victory was the best of her career, against an opponent she called "amazing". She lost 6–10 to Lee Walker in the second round of qualifying.
In the qualifying rounds for the 2018 World Snooker Championship, she lost 7–10 to Dominic Dale in the first round. In the 2019 qualifiers, she lost 2–10 to Zhang Yong in the first round. In the 2020 qualifiers, she lost 3–6 to Andy Hicks in the first round.
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