Britain's Heather Watson showed tremendous fight to reach the Australian Open second round before Dan Evans missed out on the chance of a potential meeting with Novak Djokovic. British number one Evans, seeded 30th, lost 6-4 6-3 6-4 to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in his second-round match. Watson will meet Belgian 16th seed Elise Mertens for the second time in a week after winning their Hobart International quarter-final last Thursday. "I've not had the ranking to skip weeks, but maybe in hindsight I could not have played last week," Evans said. Jonny O'Mara progressed to the second round alongside partner Marcelo Arevalo, from El Salvador, with a 6-3 6-2 win over Bolivian Hugo Dellien and Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero.

Source: BBC January 22, 2020 02:24 UTC