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Ian Chadband

Hot stuff: Aussie ends Brit star's career at Wimbledon

Tristan Schoolkate has ended the career of a British tennis favourite at Wimbledon qualifying. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

Tristan Schoolkate has become Australia's Wimbledon party pooper, bringing down the curtain on the singles career of British favourite Dan Evans on one of the Championships' most sweltering days.

Amid a rare extreme heat alert in the UK on the hottest June day on record, the Aussie men came out to play at qualifying in sun-baked Roehampton, with Chris O'Connell and Dane Sweeny also progressing to the final round.

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