Madrid Open: Alexander Zverev beats Dan Evans to set up Rafael Nadal quarter-final
Alexander Zverev has lost all three of his previous meetings with Rafael Nadal on clay British number one Dan Evans missed out on the Madrid Open quarter-finals after losing to German fifth seed Alexander Zverev in the last 16. Zverev, the 2018 champion, won 6-3 7-6 (6-3) and faces top seed Rafael Nadal in the last eight. Evans, 30, paid the price for a one-sided first set, before being edged out of the second set tie-break. Nadal comfortably reached his 15th Madrid quarter-final with a 6-3 6-3 win over world number 76 Alexei Popyrin. Facing the 21-year-old Australian for the first time,...
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