DOUBLE & QUITS FOR DAN Spanner in Roger’s works
First, the No 30 seed admitted he could not get up forYoshihito Nishioka as he said sayonara to the first Grand Slam of the season. And then Evans revealed he also lacked the drive to be big in Japan this summer and he will not represent his country.
Andy Murray has won the last two Olympic golds in the men’s singles and the top 56 players in June are eligible to compete.
But there is no prize money or ranking points on offer at the Olympics and it is held at the start of the American hardcourt season.
And world No32 Evans, who also turned down the chance to play in Rio, is set to concentrate on his build-up to the US Open.
“I love playing Davis Cup and everything and I think everyone should represent their
ROGER Federer will face “a typical Aussie bloke” in the third round – and John Millman wants to play the Swiss superstar away from centre court to “throw a spanner in the works”.
Six-time champion Federer, who beat Filip Krajinovic 6-1, 6-4, 6-1, has a great chance to reach the last eight without facing a top-40 player after Millman knocked out No31 seed Hubert Hurkacz.
But world No47 Millman melted the Swiss in the heat of the 2018 US Open and will enjoy strong
AFTER her first-round ❑
rematch with Venus Williams, Coco Gauff will face defending champion Naomi Osaka again in the second round.
The young stars met at last year’s US Open with the Japanese winning 6-3, 6-0. It is best remembered for Osaka insisting the 15-year-old share the postmatch courtside interview.
When Gauff said she would cry, the former world No1 told her: ‘I think it is better than going into the showers and crying.”
Gauff is now 7-2 in Grand Slams after beating world No74 Sorana Cirstea – the first opponent she has played in a Slam who has a lower ranking. home support. Millman said: “I love a vocal crowd. The matches I play are notorious for the crowd support you get there, the vocal Aussies.
“I’m just your typical Aussie bloke. So I’m one of the people.”
Serena Williams fought her emotions in the second set as Tamara Zidansek saved seven break points before the American won 6-2, 6-3. “I had to battle through that and my own internal problems,” said Williams.
HEATHER Watson and boyfriend Courtney Duffus are both lacking sleep even though they are on different sides of the world.
The British No 2 revealed that the Yeovil Town striker had stayed up until 3am British time to watch her first-round victory over world No64 Kristyna Pliskova despite the mickey-taking at the Conference club.
“He has been getting loads of **** from his team-mates,” she said. “He was OK.
“I apologised and he said: ‘You have got nothing to apologise for’.”Watson has also been missing her shut-eye because of building work outside her South Yarra apartment.
“Apparently you are not supposed to start building before
❑ 8am and they keep starting at 7am,” said the Channel Islander.
“The builders were having arguments with other people, other residents yesterday. I have got ear plugs so I will just put them in.”
CAROLINE Wozniacki’s ❑
farewell tour has at least one more date – and she is not going quietly.
The 2018 champion will retire at the end of the event and the end looked nigh when she was a double break down in each set to Dayana Yastremska.
The former world No1 said: “I was, like: ‘Well, this is going really quick. Let’s try to slow it down a little bit and get a little extra time out here’.”
And Denmark’s Wozniacki was not impressed by the Ukrainian taking a medical timeout at 4-5 in the second set before she won 7-5, 7-5.
She said: “Obviously she tried to break my rhythm.”