Hansel Palmer, coach at a tennis centre where Evans trained as a boy, hails his win with Andy Murray.
Andy Murray and Dan Evans booked their place in the quarter final of the Olympic men's doubles against Belgium's Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen, on TuesdayJudy Murray, Murray’s mother, retweeted a tweet by tennis reporter Mario Boccardi explaining how Evans will drop more than 110 ranking spots and will now be ranked outside of the top 170.
She said most people watching the pair, who last night moved into the last eight after another epic match went into a tie break, would not have known this about Evans. Hansel Palmer, a coach at the club, told BBC WM the pair's second Paris win had been a great result with a good celebration after. “ is 34 years old, he’s been working hard ever since he was a little boy as a tennis player, a professional player," he said.
“And this is the Olympics - he’s not going to be at the next Olympics, at age 38. It’ll be up-and-coming British stars we’ve got coming through.”Hansel Palmer is a long-standing friend of Dan Evans who coaches at Billesley Indoor Tennis Centre, where Evans still regularly visits“It’s one of those competitions where if their bodies can hold out they can do it - they’ve got to come against Nadal and Alcaraz - the hot favourites... we’ll just see how it goes.
"Sometimes he comes into my mini tennis lessons and hits with the kids, he’s great, he’s a lovely bloke, he’s signed shirts... so we can raffle them off to local charity.”For three days the West Midlands enjoyed the summer - take a look at the best photos from the last week.Crimestoppers offers £20k to find bedroom killer
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