• Evans’ victory over Australia’s Alex de Minaur proves in vain• But ‘he could be knocking on the door of top 20’ says HenmanDan Evans, Cameron Norrie, Jamie Murray and Joe
Salisbury left
Sydney with heroics to cherish and bruises to heal. But Tim Henman, their part-time muse, was quick to remind them in the immediate aftermath of losing 2-1 to Australia in the knockout stage of the first ATP Cup that their privilege and obligations as elite athletes should be guided by the scoreboard more than the heart – or, in Evans’s case, his stomach.
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