{"id":698019,"date":"2026-06-11T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698019\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:13:11","slug":"dan-evans-former-british-number-one-to-retire-from-tennis-after-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698019\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Evans: Former British number one to retire from tennis after Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, Evans sacrificed the 500 ranking points he had won at the Washington Open the previous year to partner fellow Briton Andy Murray for his final tournament at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

The pair lost in the quarter-finals in what was the last match of Murray’s illustrious career.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Representing Great Britain in both Davis Cup and the Olympics remains the greatest honour of my career and something I will cherish for the rest of my life,” added Evans, who played 28 Davis Cup ties for Great Britain.<\/p>\n

Evans, who was suspended for a year after testing positive for cocaine in 2017,<\/a> thanked his family for their “unwavering support through every high and low”.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking forward to finishing on a high… and giving everything I have one last time,” he said.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon starts on 29 June, although Evans would have to go through qualifying or receive a wildcard to play in the main draw.<\/p>\n

He has failed to advance through qualifying at the past three Grand Slams, while he received a wildcard for last year’s Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The tournament’s wildcard committee will meet on Tuesday to decide which players they would like to invite into the main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, Evans sacrificed the 500 ranking points he had won at the Washington Open the previous year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-698019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}