VIDEO: Dan Evans with shot of the year during Australian Open qualifying?
Dan Evans may already have the 2019 shot of the year wrapped up after coming up with a beauty during qualifying for the Australian Open.
The 28-year-old took on Austria’s Jurij Rodionov in his second qualifier and came up with this out of this world winner.
Ten days into 2019, Dan Evans has already hit Shot of the Year in #AusOpen qualifying 🤯🔥 pic.twitter.com/g6W9lNsomJ
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 10, 2019
Shot of the year in the bag?
British No 4 Evans went on to win 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 and he will take on Italian Paolo Lorenzi for a place in the main draw of the Australian Open.
Fellow Brit Harriet Dart also reached the final qualifying round as she beat China’s Shilin Xu 7-6 (7-4), 6-1. Up next is Serbia’s Ivana Jorovic.
James Ward is out though after going down 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to Argentina’s Marco Trungelliti.
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