Evans ‘put name back out there’ as Eastbourne run ends

After losing in the quarter-finals at Eastbourne, British number five Dan Evans now believes he has “put his name back out there.”

On Wednesday, Evans defeated world number 13 Tommy Paul, but the following day, he lost to American Jenson Brooksby, who was 6-2, 6-3.

The 35-year-old has won two of his top-20 matches in as many weeks, defeating Paul in Eastbourne and world no. 14 Tiafoe at Queen’s at the start of the grasscourt season.

In the first round of Eastbourne, he also defeated Serbia’s No. 49 Miomir Kecmanovic.

Evans, who was in the top 30 two years ago, told BBC Sport, “I’ll look back and think about this week for an hour or so. It’s been great.”

“I’ve a little bit more prominently displayed.” I’m having a fantastic event coming up.

There are no positives to leaving Eastbourne.

In windy conditions, Evans was ably defeated by Brooksby, who lost serve four times and failed to establish a break point of his own.

“It was really challenging,” Evans remarked.

You have to recover and go back to tennis, they say, “but it’s not easy.” Today, everything felt very quickly.

Ugo Humbert will face Brooksby in Friday’s semi-final after beating Billy Harris, the country’s top ranked player, 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 on Thursday.

Harris, who will also play in the Wimbledon main draw next week, was eliminated for the second time in a row at Eastbourne.

Similar to Evans, Harris’ match took place on court one rather than the center court of the tournament, which Evans described as “depressing.”

Evans responded, “I do have questions as to why no British players were playing center court today.

Taylor Fritz, the reigning champion, defeated “crazy” winds at Eastbourne to win two matches in a single day.

After Fritz and Brazilian Joao Fonseca, 18, were suspended on Wednesday for bad light, the pair resumed on Thursday afternoon and won 7-5.

Four hours and 23 minutes later, Fritz and Marcos Giron faced off in the quarter-finals at 12:47 BST.

Fritz defeated his American compatriot 7-5, 6 , 7-5, to reach the final four.

“I adore this competition. Fritz, a three-time champion in Eastbourne, said, “I’ve been very lucky not to play in very windy conditions.”

“It’s difficult for me because I can’t play the tennis I love here.” When the weather is windy, I have to scrap and play crazy tennis.

I’m obviously very relieved to get through it.

One of the favorites for the Wimbledon title is Fritz, who defeated world number three Alexander Zverev in the final of the Stuttgart Open 11 days ago.