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 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh from Thailand 5–4 to become the first woman to reach the final stages of a ranking snooker tournament. Originally scheduled to play world No. 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.