Sometimes Novak Djokovic doesn’t need a miracle to win at Wimbledon. There’s enough inspiration, divine or otherwise, from his racket to easily swat away those who have the misfortune to cross his path.
That was the situation Dan Evans found himself in on Centre Court as he watched the winners, all 46 of them, fly past him. Fresh off a confidence-boosting straight-sets win over fellow Brit Jay Clarke in round one, Evans simply couldn’t compete in a 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 defeat that took just one hour and 47 minutes.
