Dan Evans crashes out of French Open as Mikael Ymer progresses to third round

Mikael Ymer progressed to the third round of the French Open with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Dan Evans. Evans conceded a couple of early errors in the opening game of the match — which took nearly an hour — and allowed Ymer to kick things off with a comfortable hold. Ad/> The Briton responded with an ace and another fine serve to make it game point, using his serve to good effect once again to win his first game and level the scores.

/> Roland-GarrosGilles Simon — Steve Johnson — Roland-Garros HighlightsAN HOUR AGO Ymer took the third game despite conceding a double fault and handing the first break point of the game to Evans, who failed to capitalise. The Swede then broke Evans’ serve after forcing him to deuce, and stretched his lead to 3-1 to find some breathing space. Evans continued to make errors as he did early on and lost the fifth game, before his ace in the sixth prompted a potential comeback, but Ymer unleashed a deadly backhand on his way to drawing things level and break once more.

/> Serving for the set, Ymer let slip by giving away one of his two breaks as Evans managed to get his second game on the board to make it 5-2. Evans moved to 30-0 with a drop shot as Ymer began to struggle, but a near-perfect backhand got him back in the game, before Evans managed to close the gap to 5-3. Three set points were missed by Ymer as Evans took the Swede to deuce, and after a crazy string of errors, the 14-minute game was finally settled as Ymer claimed the set with an ace, his sixth set point of the game.