Dan Evans shows true colours with foul-mouthed response to US Open exit

Dan Evans is out of the US Open after losing 636 to7 60 60 to Alex De Manor on Saturday do Dan Evans refused to retire at the US Open despite illness and a hip injury and insisted I don't give a if the score says 6060 60 the British No.5 set a record for the longest match in US Open history in the first round when he came through against Karen kachanov in 5 hours and 35 minutes and the effort caught up with him in the third round against world n.1 elix to minor Evans took a pill on court before the start the match and needed treatment on and off the court during the third set and after winning the second set tie break to draw the match level Evans lost the next 12 games to go down 63 6 to 7 60 60 in 2 hours and 48 painful minutes he won only three points in the final set and only won the last 19 and he was even booed by sections of the Saturday night crowd in the lwis Armstrong Stadium Evans 34 has only retired six times in 894 matches in his long career and he insisted I wasn't tempted to stop I think it is about respect was relatively okay in the third set it was pretty bemusing that they started to boo me when the irony was I was staying out there for them and of course I respect Alex I don't think you should be pulling out in a grand slant

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