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<\/p>\nReflecting on what it took to get through the final stages, Evans commented: \u201cI said to myself, enjoy it, this is what it\u2019s about and I played much better tennis. I played good tennis again and thanks again to the crowd, you got me through.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019ve done the work, once I got some confidence, I knew the work was in the bank.<\/p>\n
\u201cA good friend said, if you\u2019re ready and the doors open, you\u2019ll walk through it and if you\u2019re not you won\u2019t. There\u2019s been no truer word the past few weeks and hopefully there\u2019s more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris has now made the quarter-finals at an ATP event three times, all coming on the grass \u2013 Eastbourne twice in 2024 and 2025, as well as Queen\u2019s last year.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s only the third British man to reach multiple quarter-finals here in Eastbourne, joining Kyle Edmund (2018 & 2019) and Cam Norrie (2018 & 2022).<\/p>\n
It was a straightforward win for the British No.4, needing just a single break in either set to book a place in the last eight.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m definitely happy with how I played. I managed to get that first break, which against someone like Bellucci is important as he plays well when he\u2019s got the rhythm. Played a good solid match throughout and I\u2019m very happy. To go from lucky loser to winning a few matches, everything is a bonus.<\/p>\n
With wins over Bellucci and Norrie so far, the road only gets tougher for Harris as he gets set to take on fourth seed Ugo Humbert in the next round.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother left hander, that\u2019s three in a row. It\u2019s good that I\u2019m used to that now. I haven\u2019t played or practiced with him so I\u2019ll have to get home now and do the homework.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris will play Humbert in the first match on Court 1 tomorrow, followed by Evans against Brooksby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on what it took to get through the final stages, Evans commented: \u201cI said to myself, enjoy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747526671510932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834","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=214834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}