Last season at the Crucible it was announced that there would be a format change for the 2015 World Championship, with the field extended to 144 players to encompass former world champions and a selection of other invited players at the discretion of the WPBSA.
Today it has been announced that one of those players will be ten times ladies champion Reanne Evans, who like all of the other names in the draw ranked outside of the world’s top 16 will now have to win three qualifying matches at Ponds Forge, Sheffield in April, if she is to make it through to play at the Crucible Theatre for the first time.