{"id":309917,"date":"2025-08-01T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309917\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:28:14","slug":"dan-evans-hits-out-at-tennis-rival-for-complaining-about-extremely-early-start-of-11am-telling-him-to-wake-up-and-play-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309917\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Evans hits out at tennis rival for complaining about &#8216;extremely early start&#8217; of 11am, telling him to &#8216;wake up and play&#8217; | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Evans has hit out at tennis rival Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, calling him &#8220;pathetic&#8221; after the Spaniard complained about an &#8220;extremely early start&#8221; of 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina was scheduled first on court to face Jakub Mensik at the National Bank Open in Toronto, with all other courts beginning play at 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 19 subsequently posted an open letter to the ATP via his Instagram story.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re staying one hour from the club, which means we have to wake up extremely early to arrive in good condition,&#8221; said Davidovich in the post. &#8220;Once again, it&#8217;s clear that players are not taken into consideration. The ATP always promises they&#8217;ll fix things, but nothing ever changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ATP always promises they&#8217;ll fix things, but nothing ever changes. This isn&#8217;t the first time it happens, and when you&#8217;re inside, you realise that it is not as great as it looks from the outside,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, 35, reposted the Spaniard&#8217;s letter on his own Instagram page telling him to &#8220;wake up and play&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world wakes up and works 9-5, even 8-6. Pathetic,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-dan-evans-tennis_6979715.jpg\"   alt=\"Dan Evans response to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Evans responded to Davidovich Fokina on his Instagram story<\/p>\n<p>Evans, who is currently ranked 154 in the world, is not participating at the National Bank Open, with his most recent match having been a loss to Corentin Moutet at the last-16 of the Citi Open in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Tour continues with the Cincinnati Open on August 7, with the final Grand Slam of the season coming between 24 August and 7 September as the US Open takes place in New York.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-leylah-fernandez_6975694.jpg\"   alt=\"Leylah Fernandez won the 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Leylah Fernandez won the 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Davidovich Fokina, Leylah Fernandez spoke out against the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old travelled to Montreal to play in her home tournament. This came just 48 hours after Fernandez won the Citi Open in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, Fernandez made it clear that she was not happy with the tournament&#8217;s scheduling. &#8220;Regarding the short turnaround, I received a lot of promises from scheduling about giving me maybe the night match, and I did not receive that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that kind of hurt me because I was very looking forward to be playing at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, as well as the US Open in New York, live on Sky Sports in 2025 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stream with NOW<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11677\/12572660\/download-the-sky-sports-app-premier-league-goals-f1-race-control-and-more-at-your-fingertips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13131189\/sky-sports-plus-launches-in-august-to-give-more-choice-to-fans-via-live-streams-app-and-new-channel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Evans has hit out at tennis rival Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, calling him &#8220;pathetic&#8221; after the Spaniard complained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309917","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\/114954929259934974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309917","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=309917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}