{"id":206447,"date":"2025-06-23T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206447\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:09:13","slug":"dan-evans-launches-x-rated-rant-at-injury-excuse-culture-in-tennis-as-british-star-gears-up-for-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206447\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Evans launches X-rated rant at injury excuse culture in tennis as British star gears up for Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Fatigue and tennis\u2019 packed schedule has been a hot topic in the sport this year\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Dan Evans says too many stars moan instead of admitting they were beaten\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3302\/Matthew-Lambwell.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MATTHEW LAMBWELL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  15:30 EDT, 22 June 2025   |  Updated:  16:09 EDT, 22 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dan Evans has hit out at tennis stars who moan about injury or illness to explain away defeats, saying they should: \u2018Just f***ing shake the guy\u2019s hand and say well done.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fatigue and tennis\u2019s packed schedule has been a hot topic this year, with many top players complaining of burnout and talk swirling of a revamp to the calendar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But 35-year-old Evans, never one to mince words, said: \u2018In general I am fed up with sportspeople who, when they lose, there is an issue. Just f***ing shake the guy\u2019s hand and say well done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018This day and age somebody is never better than us. It\u2019s always, we are tired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018If you\u2019re sick, you\u2019re sick. That\u2019s part of being a tennis player. Tiredness, the schedule &#8211; you can take time off. It\u2019s not an excuse. You have lost. That is it. Pull your calf in the first match you lose. It\u2019s sport, isn\u2019t it?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Evans is coming into <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/wimbledon\/index.html\" id=\"mol-5a3f2f10-4f9f-11f0-9f96-6d5a965053ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> fully fit this year &#8211; touch wood, he is playing here in Eastbourne this week &#8211; after a fall at Queen\u2019s Club in 2024 left him hobbled for the Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f1bd18a95b4b38aa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99616585-0-image-a-19_1750619411899.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Dan Evans has hit out at tennis stars who moan about injury or illness to explain away defeats\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Dan Evans has hit out at tennis stars who moan about injury or illness to explain away defeats<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d73ae48e3ef077f6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99616805-0-image-a-20_1750619968357.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The 35-year-old\u00a0is coming into Wimbledon fully fit this year after an injury scare in 2024\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The 35-year-old\u00a0is coming into Wimbledon fully fit this year after an injury scare in 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He played Wimbledon despite a knee injury but lost in the first round to Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, and then went straight into preparations for partnering Andy Murray for his last bow at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Last year was a rush, no doubt about that,\u2019 said Evans in Eastbourne. \u2018I took a little bit longer than expected to recover. I was just a bit behind in preparation &#8211; it sounds like I am making excuses after what I have just said!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018In hindsight, playing the Olympics was probably not the best thing for my body but that is what I wanted to do and, I\u2019ve said many times, that was the best thing I have ever done and it would be hard to top that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s nice this year to be fully fit. I was thinking earlier that I would be first or second on that (potentially slippery) court that no-one has played on. Brings back a bit of anxiety about it but I am sure it will be alright.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Dan Evans launches X-rated rant at injury excuse culture in tennis as British star gears up for Wimbledon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatigue and tennis\u2019 packed schedule has been a hot topic in the sport this year\u00a0 Dan Evans says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[92,93,79,1068,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-206447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114730012782646746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}