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Evans didn't get beyond the archetypal circular successful his erstwhile 3 tournamentsGreat Britain's Dan Evans won 2 matches successful 1 time to scope the semi-finals of the Citi Open successful Washington DC.
The satellite fig 30 defeated Russian Alexander Shevchenko 6-4 6-3 connected Friday aft their lucifer connected Thursday had been cancelled due to the fact that of rain.
Evans past caused an upset by knocking 2nd effect and location favourite Frances Tiafoe retired with a 6-4 7-5 victory.
He volition play Bulgarian 5th effect Grigor Dimitrov successful the semi-finals.
Evans, 33, has returned to signifier this week, aft defeats successful his opening matches astatine Queen's Club, Wimbledon and the Atlanta Open.
Evans took the archetypal acceptable aft breaking Tiafoe's service successful the opening crippled and helium did the aforesaid successful the 2nd set, but the American was capable to interruption backmost and instrumentality a 4-3 lead.
The ninth effect recovered with 2 emotion holds earlier getting the decisive interruption to pb 6-5 and helium served retired for the lucifer successful the adjacent game.
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