Ricky Evans | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Full name | Ricky Ian Evans | ||||||
Nickname | Rapid | ||||||
Born |
England |
29 July 1990 ||||||
Home town |
Kettering England |
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Darts information | |||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||
Walk-on music | Nobody to Love by Sigma | ||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||
BDO | 2007–2013 | ||||||
PDC | 2013– | ||||||
Current world ranking | 48 | ||||||
BDO majors - best performances | |||||||
World Masters | Last 32: 2012 | ||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 32: 2014, 2016 | ||||||
Grand Slam | Group Stage: 2013 | ||||||
UK Open | Last 32: 2016 | ||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Last 64: 2016 | ||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||
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Ricky Evans (born 29 July 1990) is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.
From 2007 to 2012 Evans attempted to qualify for each BDO World Championship but was unsuccessful on each occasion. In 2011, Evans won a PDC Youth Tour event by beating David Coyne 4–1 in the final. He has played in the World Masters five times with his best finish coming in 2012 where he lost in the last 48 to James Wilson.
In 2013, Evans played in the Qualifying School to earn a tour card for the Professional Darts Corporation events and succeeded on the first day. Less than two months later he reached the quarter-finals of a PDC Pro Tour event for the first time by beating Gary Anderson 6–5 in the last 16 of the second UK Open Qualifier, before he lost 6–3 to Peter Wright. This saw him enter the UK Open in the second round stage where he was defeated 5–2 by Joe Cullen. Evans won through to the final of the World Under-21 World Championship which was played on the finals night of the Premier League Darts at the O2 Arena in London, with Evans losing 6–1 to Michael Smith. However, the result was enough to see him reach the Grand Slam of Darts for the first time, but he lost each of his Group E games to Raymond van Barneveld, Mervyn King and Tony O'Shea to finish bottom of the table.