When Chris Eubanks took a job in TV last year he figured it was his best chance of getting close to tennis’ biggest occasions. Ranked outside the top 150 and pushing 27 years old he was tiring of scratching a living on the challenger tours.
He signed up as a commentator on the Tennis Channel, started calling matches and an astonishing thing happened - his own game transformed.
At Wimbledon on Monday he toppled No.5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in five sets to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final. It came a week after he won his first grass court tournament in Mallorca on a surface he said he hated. Pinch himself? You bet he did.
