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Evans Places Team GB at the Bottom of a Mountain

Dan Evans lost his match against Olivier Rochus 36 64 76 64 in the second rubber of the Davis Cup tie between Great Britain and Belgium, the Brit started well and dominated the first set. Throughout the second set many errors crept into Evans game and his first serve deserted him, while Rochus started playing a crushing passing shot that earned him the set. During the third set the players were evenly matched, a true test of grit and determination, which Rochus won after a controversial line call. Dan Evans showed the mental strength we saw at Great Britain’s last tie, to break in the fourth set and take the lead but his inexperience at this level showed and his game crumbled under the pressure placed by the Belgian. Rochus broke back and held to leave Evans serving to stay in the match, two unforced errors and an atrocious drop shot left the Brit scrambling to stay in the match, his efforts weren’t enough and Belgium broke to go two rubbers too love up in the tie.

With Josh Goodall losing his earlier rubber, Great Britain have got to win the next three rubbers in a row to keep their chance of returning to the world groups alive! It seems to all be going Belgium’s way at the moment, Team GB have got a mountain to climb.

Dan Evans Gets Punished by LTA for Partying. But Im Sure He Isnt Too Worried!

This is a story has been blown totally out of proportion. I was reading on the Mail website today about one of Britains top junior tennis players and how he has been hit by a ban from the LTA. Dan Evans was the player in question has has been stripped of all funding and support from the LTA for four months because he went out on the piss during Wimbledon. Evans was seen with his doubles partner Smethurst leaving a Wimbledon town nightclub at 3am. I think this is just a little over the top!

Most tennis players on tour especially juniors really enjoy to go out and party. I know he picked the wrong time to do it, while playing at Wimbledon and of course he should be punished for this. However, you have to expect these to players to unwind somehow and with him still being in juniors most of the top players will see their funding stop when they move into Adults anyways. I do think that British tennis is getting it wrong with funding anyways, but that’s another article. Evans only has another year or two of funding left before they will just remove him from the system, so he might was well enjoy his time at the top of juniors while he has it, because the next few years will be the hardest of his life, if he wants to make a career out of tennis.