Dan Evans - The party's (almost) over
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Dan Evans has decided to call time on his career, with one more Wimbledon to play first. After making his decision just before the French Open, Evans sat down with David Law to talk about the many ups and downs of his 15-year career.
00.00 - Intro
02.00 - Why Dan is retiring now and how the decision was made
08.00 - The early years
37.00 - Breakthrough at the US Open 2013
40.00 - Ups and downs
43.00 - Match points against Wawrinka in New York
49.00 - The failed doping test
63.00 - The comeback
69.00 - Playing the greats
75.00 - The Olympics with Andy Murray
85.00 - Views on doubles, run-in with Jamie Murray
92.00 - Coaching views and plans for the future
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, folks. Today we have a big interview for you, one of Britain's most well-known tennis players. |
| 0:06.5 | Dan Evans recently announced that he'll hang up his racket just after Wimbledon. |
| 0:11.0 | And this is a conversation that he and I had shortly before the French Open, actually, when he first told me that he was going to retire. |
| 0:17.8 | And I couldn't resist asking him if he wouldn't mind covering the many |
| 0:21.7 | highs and lows of his career in a conversation here on the tennis podcast. He was happy to do that. |
| 0:28.3 | We talked about his rise at the rankings. He got to just outside the world's top 20, playing |
| 0:34.3 | Davis Cup for Great Britain and of course that incredible moment |
| 0:37.5 | when he stood alongside Andy Murray |
| 0:39.3 | during his final match as a tennis pro |
| 0:42.0 | at the Olympics a couple of years ago in Paris |
| 0:45.2 | but it also covers the spectacular drops |
| 0:49.1 | in ranking that Evans had |
| 0:50.5 | having his funding withdrawn |
| 0:52.5 | getting banned for a year for taking cocaine. |
| 0:56.5 | As I said, there were a lot of downs as well as ups, and this is a very open interview. |
| 1:01.5 | He doesn't duck anything, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:05.6 | I should also say that this interview was done before we got news that he wouldn't be getting |
| 1:10.3 | a wild card at the |
| 1:11.4 | Queen's Club. He was disappointed, as you can probably imagine. You may have read that he said that |
| 1:16.6 | it would have been a classy gesture had he been given a wild card, but wasn't to be. At the moment, |
| 1:24.5 | he hasn't got a wild card for Wimbledon either, not for the main draw. |
| 1:27.8 | He's got one for the doubles, but he wasn't on the initial list of wild cards for Wimbledon. |
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