Dan Evans tears into British tennis stars as Raducanu struggles stay

Dan Evans has slammed British tennis gamers for not coming into sufficient tournaments, suggesting the nation’s stars favour relaxation over matchplay. The 32-year-old’s feedback come as Emma Raducanu’s on-court struggles proceed with the previous US Open champion set to fall out of the highest 100 for the primary time since her 2021 triumph in Flushing Meadow.

Evans has made gradual progress on the courtroom in recent times and is at the moment world No 24. And within the Madrid Open, he fell to a disappointing 6-3, 6-2 defeat to Bernabe Zapata Miralles within the first spherical.

After the match, he ripped into his fellow British tennis stars for underperforming – suggesting that they don’t compete in sufficient tournaments. He referred to as out lots of the ladies’s gamers particularly after nobody competed within the week after the Billie Jean Cup.

“[As a nation], we’re picking and choosing what tournaments we play and we’re ranked 200 in the world,” Evans mentioned. “I’m not going to bag the girls here but no one played after [the Billie Jean King Cup in Coventry a fortnight ago]. There’s some cultural thing about resting and all that. It’s not new. Maybe they’ve got too much money or something.”

“I think players need to compete more week in week out. The players need to get out on the road and just get after it. It’s not like there’s great science behind it. I mean, it can be hard on the tour but you need to be at it.

“I’m never going to say I’m a blueprint but James Ward – when he made it to 80 in the world – was playing in Challengers and Futures events week in week out. Cam [Norrie] learned his trade by playing his matches and being in competitive situations. He’s not got good on the practice court. He plays his tournaments, he sticks to his schedule, he’s never injured – touch wood – and how that’s not a blueprint is beyond me, basically.”

Britain’s males are statistically performing higher than they’ve up to now with 4, together with Evans, within the high 100 on this planet. However, the identical can’t be mentioned for the ladies’s recreation with Raducanu nonetheless Britain’s No 1 regardless of the very fact she’s going to fall out of the highest 100 after pulling out of the Madrid Open with an harm.

It stays to be seen whether or not or not Evans’ fellow stars will heed his recommendation as they give the impression of being to enhance within the sport.