After a one-year ban Britain’s Dan Evans returns to tennis cheeky, chastened and having discovered the drudgery of daytime TVDan Evans has taken a quiet look at the Barcelona Open on television this week, scene of his first Tour victory on clay nearly a year ago – after which his otherwise charmed life fell apart like an over-ripe orange.He was ranked 43 in the world and in the form of his life when drug testers found traces of cocaine in his washbag in the Spanish city, evidence that resulted in his banishment until this weekend, when he resumes his career on Saturday against Ed Corrie, in a Challenger held at a suburban leisure centre in Glasgow. The Birmingham player is as cheeky as ever, which is a good sign, and chastened, vowing never to take cocaine again, a drug he describes as “a life-ruiner”. Continue reading…
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