Dan Evans out but Aljaz Bedene and Kyle Edmund progress at Winston-Salem Open

ByPA Sport

Updated 23/08/2016 at 08:17 GMT

British number two Dan Evans suffered a second-round exit at the Winston-Salem Open, but Aljaz Bedene and Kyle Edmund made it through in their first-round clashes in North Carolina.

Great Britain's Dan Evans in action against Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov

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Evans, who is ranked at 66 in the world, made it past Gastao Elias in the first round on Sunday but his reward was a tough clash with top seed Richard Gasquet and went out after a 6-4 4-6 6-3 defeat.

He pushed Gasquet hard, though, winning the second set but was crucially broken in the sixth game of the third and there was no way back as the Frenchman served it out.

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Bedene, now at 77 in the rankings, needed three sets to get past Irishman James McGhee in his first outing.

After losing the first set he battled back to take a 3-6 7-6 (7/5) 6-2 victory and book a second-round meeting with second seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

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Edmund, who came into the match without an ATP main draw win since June, put that right with a 7-5 7-6 (7/5) win.

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