Dan Evans’s run of upsets has continued in Montreal with a stirring 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 comeback victory over the American Tommy Paul that has the Birmingham right-hander through to an ATP Masters 1000 semi-final for the second time in two years. However, the dream of an all-British semi-final fizzled out earlier with Jack Draper’s straight-sets defeat by Spain’s Pablo Carreño Busta.
Both Evans and Paul were unseeded entering this Canadian Open, only to progress with shock wins over more fancied opponents to set up their quarter-final showdown. Evans’s steely form in the early rounds had seen him knock out the eighth-ranked Andrey Rublev to progress to the last 16 and, one day later, dismantle the American Taylor Fritz, seeded 10, 7-6 (7), 1-6, 7-5 to make the quarter-final.
