Dan Evans stuns seventh seed Marin Cilic for biggest shock in men's draw
Updated 18/01/2017 at 12:54 GMT
Dan Evans enjoyed one of the biggest wins of his career as he beat seventh seed Marin Cilic in four sets in the second round of the Australian Open.
Evans lost the opening set to the Croat but turned on the style to take the next three and win the match 3-6 7-5 6-3 6-3.
Evans, who reached the final in Sydney last week, had never even made it as far as the second round in Melbourne and has now matched his best ever Grand Slam performance.
The British number three reached the third round at Wimbledon and the US Open last year.
Ranked in the high 700s only a couple of years ago, Evans was grinning from ear to ear after recording the biggest win of his career in a shade under three hours on Court Three.
Croatian Cilic, who won his sole grand slam crown at Flushing Meadow in 2014, mixed 55 winners with 69 unforced errors and was able to convert just three of 19 break points during the match.
Evans scored his first ever win over a top-10 player as recently as last week, beating Austria's Dominic Thiem en route to the Sydney final.
He takes on either number 27 seed Bernard Tomic or Victor Estrella Burgos in the next round.
"I didn’t finish the job the last time on big occasions and had been thinking about that quite a bit," he told Eurosport after his victory.
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