Dan Evans beforehand reached the fourth spherical of the Australian Open in 2017
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Britain’s Dan Evans was overpowered by Andrey Rublev within the third spherical of the Australian Open on Saturday.
Evans misplaced 6-4 6-2 6-3 to fifth seed Rublev, who hit 60 winners to 22 unforced errors in a powerful show.
Russia’s Rublev will face both Holger Rune or Ugo Humbert as he bids to succeed in the Melbourne quarter-finals for the primary time.
Evans’ defeat leaves Andy Murray as the one British participant left in both singles draw.
Murray faces Spanish twenty fourth seed Roberto Bautista Agut from 08:00 GMT on Saturday.
Evans, who reached the fourth spherical in Melbourne in 2017, began nicely towards Rublev, making a break alternative for a 4-3 lead within the first set.
Nonetheless, Rublev saved it and broke to shut out the set, earlier than upping his aggression to win the subsequent two units in stable model.
Rublev thanked Evans after the match for giving him a banana throughout a changeover.
“I requested the ball boy, however Danny requested for bananas earlier and he had two so he simply mentioned ‘take it’, and I caught it,” Rublev mentioned.
“He helped me with some vitality, for certain. I had further as a result of I ate the banana.”