{"id":17049,"date":"2021-06-29T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=117981"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:03:53","slug":"wimbledon-2020-dan-evans-overcomes-feliciano-lopez-7-6-6-2-7-5-in-the-second-day-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2020-dan-evans-overcomes-feliciano-lopez-7-6-6-2-7-5-in-the-second-day-of-the-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Dan Evans overcomes Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-2 7-5 in the second day of the tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Evans defeats Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-2 7-5 on the second day of Wimbledon to reach the next round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Straight sets. Straight into the second round \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>Dan Evans delights on No.2 Court, defeating Feliciano Lopez 7-6(4), 6-2, 7-5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gfqjon2k8L\">pic.twitter.com\/Gfqjon2k8L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1409846772269260801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The British number one is into the second round after an incredible straight-set victory over the Spaniard Lopez, who has appeared at every Grand Slam event since 2002 which is 77 Slams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great, thanks to everybody for coming out. It\u2019s amazing to be back and to play at Wimbledon. It was really great for the comeback and u did not realise it would be as busy.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">So happy to win l, I played some good tennis. I am delighted and I am contented how I came through,\u201d said Evans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed for the last two sets. In the first, I was a bit too into myself and when I let go, I got rolling. I was patient at last. I dragged the game at last and that was a good mental effort for today.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">I am working on my game to get to that place. It\u2019s been working well,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>British professional, Evans went toe-to-toe and took the first set 7-4 in the tie break. He was two sets up and he never lost a match while leading with a 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish professional confronted forcefully in the third set but was saved by Evans as he denied two break points in the seventh game and came back 6-5. After missing two, it ended upsetting the three times quarter-finalist of All England Club, Feliciano Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Evans defeats Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-2 7-5 on the second day of Wimbledon to reach the next round of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1988,464,389,202,250],"class_list":["post-17049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-all-england-club","tag-british","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}