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The Guardian - UK
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Tumaini Carayol at Roland Garros

Dan Evans says British tennis ‘papering over cracks’ since Raducanu glory

Dan Evans practises before the French Open gets under way
Dan Evans practises before the French Open gets under way on Sunday. Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

Dan Evans has suggested that the success of Emma Raducanu has papered over the cracks in British tennis as an alarmingly low number of players are present in the French Open main draw this year.

Only three British men will compete in singles at Roland Garros and the absence of Raducanu, who is recovering from surgical procedures to her hands and an ankle, means there are no British women in the main draw of a grand slam singles tournament for the first time since 2009.

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