Welshman David Evans joined the PSA in September 1993 – the same month in which fellow countryman Alex Gough turned professional. Like Gough, the tall Pontypool-based player broke into the top hundred in May the following year, and in July 1995 he joined the top fifty at 47. It was not until February 1998 that he made his debut in the world top thirty at 29 (a month after Gough had made his top ten debut) – but by November he was in the top twenty, at 17. For more than a year, his ranking hardly changed at all – until April 2000 when he crashed into the top ten, from 16, to his career-high No7 position.

David's first success on the PSA Tour was in Spain in October 1993, when he reached the semi-finals of the Santiago Open after beating fellow Welshman Gareth Davies, the No3 seed, in the opening round after qualifying. A month later, again travelling with Alex Gough, he defeated 7th seed Steve Polli in the first round of the Adelaide Club Classic in Canada – before losing to Gough, the eventual champion, in the last eight.

At the end of 1994, Evans became Welsh national champion for the first time – and went on to keep the title for a further five years, beating rival Alex Gough in the 1999 final.

He reached his first PSA Tour final in March 1995, in the Toulouse Open in France, and claimed his first professional title success in Pakistan a year later when he beat 2nd seed Mir Zaman Gul in five games in the final of the Servis International in Lahore.

Evans scored his second PSA trophy in October 1997 when he cruised through the USA's Florida State Open as top seed to reach the final, where he dropped the only game of the tournament beating 2nd seed Angus Kirkland 3-1.

1998 was the breakthrough year for Evans – which began when he exceeded his seeding to reach the semi-finals of the Hartford Cup in the USA, beating Australians Paul Price and John White before losing to a further Australian, top seed Dan Jenson. In April, he fought through the qualifiers, then beat England's Del Harris in the opening round of the British Open in Birmingham. After losing the first two games in his next match against No3 seed Jonathon Power, he unexpectedly gained a passage through to the quarter-finals when the fast-rising Canadian broke down after a recurrence of an ankle injury. Evans' first appearance in the last eight of a Super Series event ended after four games in his second defeat in three months to Dan Jenson.

In September, Evans upset England's world No5 Simon Parke in five games to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles event in squash's much-heralded debut in the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. 

This time he lost in straight games to the now fully-recovered Jonathon Power. Two weeks later he repeated his victory over Parke – in the first round of the Al-Ahram International in Egypt, then lost in the second to Scotland's Martin Heath.

One of the highpoints of David's career came in November 1998, when he reached the semi-finals of the Pakistan Open, after gaining revenge over second seed Dan Jenson in a four-game quarter-final.

An indifferent start to 1999 led to success in May when Evans beat 4th seed Paul Price to reach the semi-finals of the Clermont-Ferrand Open in France. In September he beat Belgium's Stefan Casteleyn to reach the third round of the World Open in Cairo, but registered his most rewarding success in Cairo the following week in the World Team Championships – when he led Wales to a historic maiden appearance in the final after trouncing defending champions England in the semi-finals. It was Wales' first ever squash victory over England, and his straight games defeat of Simon Parke clinched the semis success – avenging England's 3-0 win over Wales in the Pool rounds.

In December, Evans became the only unseeded player to reach the last eight of the British Open in Scotland - after twice coming from behind to beat England's former world No2 Peter Marshall 6-15 15-11 7-15 15-11 15-12 in the last sixteen, before bowing out to Egypt's Ahmed Barada in the quarters.

Evans began the new millennium in great style – overcoming Ireland's 5th seed Derek Ryan then Mark Cairns to reach the semi-finals of January's Marsh & McLennan Apawamis Open in New York unseeded. 

In February, he fought through to the British National Championships' final for the first time, where he lost to England's Peter Marshall.

By the end of March, he had notched up a further two quarter-final berths in PSA Super Series events – beating world No5 Martin Heath in Belgium's Flanders Open and gaining revenge over Marshall in the PSA Masters in Egypt, then in both cases losing out to Scotland's world champion Peter Nicol.

David has represented Wales in seven European Team Championships, two World Team Championships and two World Cups. He also played rugby for Wales at U-15. Hs main interests outside squash are music, golf and rugby – and his ambition is "to be world No1".