Dan Evans facilitates past Benjamin Becker in Citi Open first round

Dan Evans has continued his good form from Wimbledon with a win in Washington

The begin of the match was postponed in light of the risk of rainstorms around the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, yet British No 4 Evans, who achieved the third round at Wimbledon before losing to Roger Federer, rapidly took summon when the match got going.

Evans, 26, required only 49 minutes to wrap up the win as he broke his 35-year-old adversary's serve four times.

World No 82 Evans will now confront the twelfth seeded Grigor Dimitrov in the second round after the Bulgarian was given a first-round bye.

In the interim, John Millman reeled off the last seven diversions of the match to beat neighborhood trust Denis Kudla 7-5 6-0 in the first round.

Kindred Australians James Duckworth and Jordan Thompson additionally progressed, with Duckworth beating America's Tim Smyczek 7-5 6-1 and Thompson showing signs of improvement of Victor Estrella Burgos 6-3 6-2.

Bjorn Fratangelo won an all-American fight against Alex Kuznetsov 4 6-2 6-4 and 18-year-old American Taylor Fritz posted a 6-4 6-3 triumph over Israel's Dudi Sela, terminating down 11 experts and sparing each of the seven break focuses

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Arsenal offer for top striker rejected

French club Lyon said Tuesday they had rejected a 35-million-euro (£29 million, $39 million) offer from Arsenal for star striker Alexandre Lacazette. Lyon called the 25-year-old, who has for quite some time been connected with a move to the Premier League having scored 48 objectives throughout the last two seasons, "irreplacable" and said he would not be sold. In May, Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas said the club had released a 40-million-euro offer from West Ham United for the productive French universal.

Ferdinand: I offered myself to Wenger for free!

Previous Manchester United stalwart Rio Ferdinand has uncovered that he reached Arsene Wenger about possibly signing for Arsenal on a free move in 2014. Ferdinand, now a TV intellectual, at last joined QPR upon the expiry of his United contract before resigning toward the end of the 2014-15 season having shown up amid his time in the capital. Be that as it may, the 37-year-old has now revealed that he likewise connected with Arsenal supervisor Wenger, however a move to the club that spoke to United's greatest adversaries for a lot of Ferdinand's opportunity at Old Trafford did not appear. Because of a publication asserting Ferdinand ought to have moved to Arsenal on online networking website Twitter, the previous West Ham and Leeds protector posted: "I reached out to Mr Wenger!!"

Man Utd document reveals Mkhitaryan missed Stoke with thigh problem

Henrikh Mkhitaryan missed Manchester United's 1-1 draw against Stoke City because of a thigh damage and the club is asking for his withdrawal from Armenia's squad. The 27-year-old has just begun one match since signing from Borussia Dortmund in July and has not played since the derby annihilation to Manchester City on September 10. There had been trusts he would return in Sunday's 1-1 draw against Stoke on Sunday after he had tweeted that he was back in preparing and near full fitness, however was again truant from the matchday squad. Armenia, however, have discharged a letter sent by United's club specialist Steve McNally that clarifies Mkhitaryan's issue, with the archive likewise requesting his withdrawal from their next two World Cup qualifiers. "Henrikh is as yet experiencing late stage restoration from the left thigh muscle damage that he managed not long ago while playing for Manchester United," read McNally's comments.

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