{"id":773597,"date":"2026-07-01T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:57:16","slug":"dan-evans-wimbledon-wild-card-snub-was-shambles-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773597\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Evans: Wimbledon Wild Card Snub was \u201cShambles\u201d \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Evans\u2019 tennis career ended on Wednesday at Wimbledon, the 36-year-old Brit losing a doubles match with Henry Searle, 6-2, 6-4 to Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Afterwards he talked with reporters about how he felt about not getting a singles wild card at Wimbledon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t understand the reasoning, and nobody has given me a decent reason,\u201d the ATP\u2019s 385th-ranked singles player said. \u201cNobody\u2019s had the minerals or however you want to phrase it to come over from the governing body, who I think I have done plenty for, and given me an explanation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evans has done admirable service for British tennis, reaching a career-high of No.21 and famously forgoing a Citi Open title defense to partner Andy Murray at the Paris Olympics in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andy Murray on Dan Evans’s retirement: \u201cUnbelievably talented guy. Very competitive, loves to compete. He\u2019s got a good heart, Evo, and he absolutely loves British tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been a huge part of the Davis Cup teams over the years. He\u2019s done extremely well.”<\/p>\n

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During his career he was known as a fiery player, but also a talented technician that played a crafty style of old-school tennis, replete with a single-handed backhand and a wicked backhand slice that was perfectly suited for grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Typically singles wild cards go to the home nation, but this year\u2019s championship was crowded with the likes of Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov also receiving wild cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It left Evans, who won seven of 17 matches in the main draw at Wimbledon, on the outside looking in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evans says he wasn\u2019t as miffed about the wild card snub as he was about the lack of communication from the club about the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have loved to play singles,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t have a conversation and be honest\u2026 Listen, if they turned around and say, Listen, you\u2019ve hardly played.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, communication is a big thing in tennis\u2026 No one spoke to me this week. No one has congratulated me on my career this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evans represented British tennis with pride over the years, playing 28 ties and winning 18 matches, including 14 in singles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoyed playing Davis Cup for my country more than I can tell you. It\u2019s the best, the best thing ever,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the last month has been nothing short of a shambles from them. That\u2019s the bottom line. You speak to people; you talk to people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Evans\u2019 tennis career ended on Wednesday at Wimbledon, the 36-year-old Brit losing a doubles match with Henry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-773597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}