Dan Evans stumbles out of European Open at hands of Ugo Humbert

ByAlexander Netherton

Updated 24/10/2020 at 17:54 GMT

Dan Evans - the British men's tennis number one - came agonisingly close to a European Open final and what could have been his first ATP tour win. Instead he wasted four match point chances against France's Ugo Humbert, and crashed out at the semi-final stages.

British tennis number one Dan Evans passed up four match points as he was defeated 6-4 6-4 (7-9) 6-4 to Frenchman Ugo Humbert in the European Open semi-finals.

The world number 35 was just one match away from reaching a final to potentially win what would have been his first ATP Tour title.

Instead it was Humbert, just 22 and ranked three places below him, who went through.

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Humbert will face Grigor Dimitrov or Alex de Minaur in the final on Sunday.

He already has an ATP title, winning his first in January in Auckland before the coronavirus pandemic hit outside China.

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