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Evans 'happy with decision' to retire after Wimbledon

Great Britain's Dan Evans says he is "happy" with his decision to retire after Wimbledon after his singles career came to an end as he suffered a defeat to Tristan Schoolkate in the second round of Wimbledon qualifying. Dan Evans, however, will still play at Wimbledon after being given a wildcard into the men's doubles with Henry Searle.

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I grew up watching Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova – this tale of their friendship wrecked me | Emma Brockes

Chris was my first tennis love, but it was Martina who broke my heart. What a joy to watch these legends still fighting onYou can look at house prices and hemlines, or prime ministers and presidents, but for my money, the quickest shortcut to evoking an era is its tennis players. I grew up in the age of Graf v Seles and Agassi v Sampras, but my earliest memories – those that yank me back to a primordial time – come from the period immediately before that. I haven’t even reached the end of the trailer for Chris & Martina: The Final Set, the new Netflix documentary following the lifelong rivalry and friendship of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, and I am already an absolute wreck.Wimbledon starts next week and, in The Final Set, we are taken back to that pivotal moment in the late 1970s when Evert and Navratilova – “the most cold-hearted pursuers of greatness that you’ve ever met in your entire life”, as the documentary puts it – changed the women’s game. It was Rocky v Apollo Creed; Maverick v Iceman. There was Evert, blond, tiny, from Florida, versus Navratilova, who, in 1975, when she defected from what was then communist Czechoslovakia, was out of shape and unsure of herself. Over the next decade she transformed herself into a winning machine and while Evert, my first love, gave way to Monica Seles, my second love, and Steffi Graf, the tennis love of my life, it was Navratilova who would break all our hearts. Continue reading...

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