Dan Evans produces sweary response as all seven Brits win US Open openers

Jodie Burrage accomplished a powerful seventh British singles victory on the US Open – with each participant remarkably successful in straight units. Qualifier Lily Miyazaki acquired the primary victory on the board along with her first Grand Slam success on Monday.

And the British No 7 was adopted by wins for Katie Boulter, Cam Norrie, Andy Murray, Jack Draper and Dan Evans. British No 2 Burrage accomplished the clear sweep of 18 profitable units by beating Russian Anna Blinkova 6-3, 6-4 below the lights on Court 9 final evening.

“I felt a little pressure going on the court after obviously all the Brits winning today,” she smiled. “Wish I hadn’t known that going on, but who knows, maybe it helped me. I’m very much following all the results. I sat in the changing room.

“They have a little room with about six TVs. I had Andy and Jack on there. I  followed the other girls this morning. It’s been a really good day for all of us. I did feel the pressure, but it’s also a really good day and it puts you in a better mood when other people are winning.

“It makes you believe that you can do it a little bit more I think, as well. I guess it helped. A good day for the Brits.” It is the primary time there are greater than two British feminine gamers have received a fundamental draw match in New York since 1987.

And it’s the most to achieve the second spherical since seven gamers additionally achieved the feat again in 1977. Evans mentioned: “It is an amazing feat. I have never heard of anything like that. Without even dropping a set? ******* hell!”

Draper mentioned: “Definitely having other Brits do well in the draw’s amazing for British tennis. You always say it, but we can all push each other to be better. Seeing other players do well that I’m training with on a daily basis makes me really happy because I see what they’re going through, their journey.

“I wish them all the best and hopefully we can all support each other moving forward in big tournaments like this.” Japanese-born Miyazaki is again in motion within the first match on Court 5 on  Wednesday (4pm UK time) in opposition to Olympic champion Belinda Bencic.

Evans mentioned: “Lily is 27 – there is no age to stop playing tennis. She wasn’t given a wildcard at Wimbledon this year and pitches up to play qualies here and it is an amazing achievement. I think that is more of a historic thing than seven Brits winning. It is pretty impressive. She got the ball rolling.”

Burrage will subsequent face world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka. “It’s a massive match, probably one of the biggest ones I would have played in my career,” she mentioned. “But go out there, enjoy it like I always do.”