Australia's Tomic edges Britain's Evans to level semi


  • Tennis
  • Saturday, 19 Sep 2015

Tennis - Great Britain v Australia - Davis Cup Semi Final - Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland - 18/9/15 Great Britain's Andy Murray celebrates winning his match Action Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff Livepic

GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - An exhausted Bernard Tomic fought off a tenacious fightback by Britain's lowly-ranked Dan Evans to draw Australia level at 1-1 after the first day of their Davis Cup semi-final on Friday.

Australian number one Tomic won the day's second singles 6-3 7-6(2) 6-7(4) 6-4 but he looked out on his feet towards the end after being rocked on his heels by the dogged Evans.

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