{"id":8511,"date":"2025-06-16T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/wild-card-dan-evans-downs-francistier-folk-queens-club\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:12:17","slug":"wild-card-dan-evans-downs-francistier-folk-queens-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/wild-card-dan-evans-downs-francistier-folk-queens-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Card Dan Evans Downs Francistier Folk Queens Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8211; British wildcard Dan Evans disrupt the world&#8217;s 13th Francistier for 7-5, 6-2 on Monday for his first victory at the Queens Club since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Backhand slices and quick pure reflection supported Evans&#8217; second victory in the top 20 grass of 199 No. 199. The first was held at Wimbledon in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still believe I have that tennis inside me, so I believe I can do good in the top 100. &#8220;I know how you think. Today I have shown that I still have a little bit left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other first-round winners included fourth seed Holgar Rune and eighth seed Jakubumensik in Queen&#8217;s debut. The 19-year-old Czech hit 20 aces by beating former finalist Cameron Norry 7-6 (6), 1-6 and 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Mensic is next faced with Spain&#8217;s Roberto Bautista Agutt. Spain&#8217;s Nuno Borge&#8217;s comeback winner in a three-set, Rune lined up with Mackenzie MacDonald of the US, who expelled French Fallet Monfils.<\/p>\n<p>The top two species are Wimbledon and French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz, who won Stuttgart in his fourth title in Grass on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; British wildcard Dan Evans disrupt the world&#8217;s 13th Francistier for 7-5, 6-2 on Monday for his first victory at the Queens Club since 2021. Backhand slices and quick pure reflection supported Evans&#8217; second victory in the top 20 grass of 199 No. 199. The first was held at Wimbledon in 2019. &#8220;I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[245,795,2646,2648,2647,2649,2606,2523,24,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-8511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-card","9":"tag-club","10":"tag-dan","11":"tag-downs","12":"tag-evans","13":"tag-folk","14":"tag-francistier","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-wild"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}