“It was a good effort mentally to just stay in the present and keep, you know, fighting for each point, and I did a great job of that this week.” Having failed to win a match from the end of April to the end of July, he also admitted that some of the defeats had been close.
Evans said: “I mean, it was really only the grass I didn’t play well. You know, I played well in Barcelona on the clay, and then I had some rough matches which I didn’t get the best out of. I lost in three a few times or tight matches.
“Then, yeah, I was playing well and I just couldn’t get over the line. That’s where you sort of lean on your team to, you know, keep you working hard and training and practising hard. You know, it’s especially good to get the outcome I got this week, but, you know, I said to myself once I got into the semis that that was a good effort and then I sort of reset and, you know, wanted to then win the tournament.”