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Dan Evans and Billy Harris were both eliminated from the Eastbourne Open while British interest ended, but n ° 719 Oliver Tarvet sealed its place in the main draw of Wimbledon after being qualified.
Evans, who recorded an exceptional victory in the second round on the number 13 of Tommy Paul on Wednesday, dropped 6-2 6-3 to the American loser Jenson Brooksby.
Harris, ranked 142 in the world, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 by the French world n ° 20 Ugo Humbert.
“It was really difficult conditions; Jenson played a good match, he was probably better than me today,” said Evans, who arrived at Devonshire Park, having celebrated the best victory in Grass-Court last week with the victory against Frances Tiafoe in the first round at the Queen’s Club.
“It was a very fast turnaround. It was not easy but it was tennis, you have to recover and come back there.
“I don’t know what time he finished yesterday, but I think it was much earlier than me and it was just very fast today.”
Tarvet is currently studying at the University of San Diego in the United States, where he obtained impressive results on the university tennis circuit. He became the first British male qualification for Wimbledon since Alexander Ward in 2017.
He followed his victory over the 14th seeded Terence Atmane in the first round with a 6-3 6-2 victory against the Canadian Alexis Galarneau before defeating the 29th head of Alexander Blockx of Belgium 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-1 to progress towards the main draw.
St Albans’ 21-year-old said in his post-match interview: “There is a lot of emotions, but the main one is just happiness.
“There is a lot of work to get to where I am today. Many people have worked very hard to help me, not only to go through this qualification, but over the past two years.
“Many emotions, but I really appreciate the moment. It is a dream come true and I am just happy to be part of it.”
Hamish Stewart’s offer to join Tarvet in the evening draw ended with a 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-4 defeat against Leandro Riedi in Switzerland.
N ° of 550 World Stewart, of Strathblane, had won four games after having traveled the qualifying qualifiers for Wild Card for British players in a lower row to win a place in Roehampton.
Barbora Krejcikova is a doubt of injury before defense of the Wimbledon title after having removed the Eastbourne Open due to a thigh problem.
The world n ° 17, which beat Jasmine Paolini in the final of women’s singles at the All England Club last year, was to face Varvara Gracheva from France in the quarter -final.
The Czech player Krejcikikova first felt the problem on Wednesday during her victory in the second round over Jodie Burrage of Great Britain.
The injury worsened overnight and, with her opening match in Wimbledon scheduled for Tuesday, the 29 -year -old woman awaits the result of a scan.
“I’m really sorry to have to withdraw from my quarter -final today in Eastbourne while I have pain in my right thigh,” said Krejcikova.
“Obviously, it has not improved; it got worse. I think it’s better with Wimbledon in the coming days just to rest and see what’s going on and to solve this problem.”
Krejcikova has played two games by simple exhausting and three sets on the southern coast.
After saving two matches on the way to defeat the British No 4 Harriet Dart in two hours and 40 minutes in the first round, the second seeded saved three more in its triumph of equality on Burrage, which lasted two hours and 24 minutes.
Australian 19 years old Mayan joint supported his victory in the second round on British n ° 1 Emma Raducanu by reaching the semi-finals with a success of 6-4 7-5 on the Russian Anna Blinka.
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