{"id":5688,"date":"2026-01-12T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:25:28","slug":"australian-open-2026-qualifying-dan-evans-one-of-four-britons-to-lose-in-first-round-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5688","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 qualifying: Dan Evans one of four Britons to lose in first round in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Dan Evans missed out on the Australian Open main draw for a second successive year as he fell in the first round of qualifying in Melbourne.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old struggled with his serve in a 6-1 6-2 defeat by Japan&#8217;s Rei Sakamoto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former British number one Evans recorded four double faults and did not create a single break point in a 66-minute defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans&#8217; sole Grand Slam appearance last year was at Wimbledon, where he was given a main draw wildcard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Britons Jay Clarke and Jack Pinnington Jones also fell in straight sets in the first round of qualifying, while Oliver Crawford lost 6-3 2-6 6-3 to Spain&#8217;s Daniel Merida Aguilar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arthur Fery and George Loffhagen recorded more positive results, with Fery beating Australia&#8217;s Edward Winter 6-2 6-4 and Loffhagen overcoming Germany&#8217;s Justin Engel 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players have to progress through three qualifying rounds to reach the main draw, which begins on Sunday, 18 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Dan Evans missed out on the Australian Open main draw for a second successive year as he fell in the first round of qualifying in Melbourne. The 35-year-old struggled with his serve in a 6-1 6-2 defeat by Japan&#8217;s Rei Sakamoto. Former British number one Evans recorded four double faults and did not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}