Dan Evans: British curiosity at Eastbourne comes to finish however world No 719 Oliver Tarvet qualifies for Wimbledon | Tennis Information

British world No 719 Oliver Tarvet sealed his spot within the Wimbledon foremost draw after coming by qualifying however won’t be able to assert the vast majority of his prize cash for reaching the primary spherical.

Tarvet is at present finding out on the College of San Diego in the USA, the place he has achieved spectacular outcomes on the school tennis circuit. He grew to become the primary male British qualifier for Wimbledon since Alexander Ward in 2017.

He adopted up his victory over 14th seed Terence Atmane in spherical one with a 6-3 6-2 win towards Canada’s Alexis Galarneau earlier than defeating twenty ninth seed Alexander Blockx of Belgium 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-1 to progress to the primary draw.

Nevertheless, resulting from most school sports activities in America having newbie standing, Tarvet won’t be able to take residence the vast majority of the £66,000 he has earned by reaching Wimbledon’s first spherical.

The 21-year-old from St Albans stated in his post-match interview: “There’s a variety of feelings however the primary one is simply happiness.

“There’s a variety of work gone into getting the place I’m in the present day. Lots of people have labored actually onerous to assist me, not solely to get by this qualification however the final two years.

“A whole lot of feelings however I am simply actually having fun with the second. It is a dream come true and I am simply completely satisfied to be part of it.”

British curiosity at Eastbourne comes to finish

Dan Evans and Billy Harris have been knocked out of the Eastbourne Open as British curiosity got here to an finish.

Evans, who registered a standout second-round win over world No 13 Tommy Paul on Wednesday, went down 6-2 6-3 to American fortunate loser Jenson Brooksby.

Harris, ranked 142 on the planet, was crushed 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 by French world No 20 Ugo Humbert.

“It was actually troublesome situations. Jenson performed a very good match, he was most likely higher than me in the present day,” stated Evans, who arrived at Devonshire Park having final week celebrated the perfect grass-court win of his profession with victory over Frances Tiafoe within the first spherical at Queen’s Membership.

“It was a really fast turnaround. It was not simple however that is tennis, you need to get better and get again on the market.

“I am unsure what time he completed yesterday however I feel it was loads sooner than me, and it simply felt all very fast in the present day.”

Stewart and Appleton knocked out of Wimbledon

Hamish Stewart’s bid to affix Tarvet within the singles draw at Wimbledon led to a 6-3 4-6 6-3 6-4 defeat to Switzerland’s Leandro Riedi.

World No 550 Stewart, from Strathblane, had gained 4 matches having come by the wild card qualifying play-off for lower-ranked British gamers to earn a spot at Roehampton.

Emily Appleton misplaced within the ultimate spherical of qualifying as Slovakian world No 171 Veronika Erjavec sealed a 6-2 2-6 6-0 win.

Karen Cross (2001), Katie Swan (2021) and Sonay Kartal (2024) are the one Brits to have progressed by qualifying to achieve the Wimbledon girls’s singles draw since 1999.

Krejcikova’s harm scare forward of title defence

Barbora Krejcikova is an harm doubt forward of her Wimbledon title defence after withdrawing from the Eastbourne Open resulting from a thigh drawback.

The world No 17, who defeated Jasmine Paolini within the girls’s singles ultimate on the All England Membership final yr, was resulting from face France’s Varvara Gracheva within the quarter-finals.

Czech participant Krejcikova initially felt the difficulty on Wednesday throughout her second-round victory over Britain’s Jodie Burrage.

The harm worsened in a single day and, along with her opening match at Wimbledon scheduled for Tuesday, the 29-year-old is awaiting the end result of a scan.

“I am very sorry to need to withdraw from my quarter-final in the present day in Eastbourne as I am having some soreness in my proper thigh,” stated Krejcikova.

“In a single day it simply did not get any higher; it really received worse. I feel it is higher with Wimbledon within the subsequent couple of days simply to relaxation it, see what is going on on and to resolve that.”

Krejcikova performed two gruelling three-set singles matches on the south coast.

Having saved two match factors en path to defeating British No 4 Harriet Dart in two hours and 40 minutes in spherical one, the second seed saved three extra in her tie-break overcome Burrage, which lasted two hours and 24 minutes.

Australian 19-year-old Maya Joint backed up her second-round victory over British No 1 Emma Raducanu by reaching the semi-finals with a 6-4 7-5 success over Russia’s Anna Blinkova.

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