CINCH CHAMPIONSHIPS

June 15, 2021

Daniel Evans

Queens Club

Press Conference

D. EVANS/A. Popyrin

6-4, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. How does it feel to win a match at Queen's, nice summer's day?

DANIEL EVANS: Yeah, definitely. I think what I said in my first presser, it's pretty iconic feeling, the first day at Queen's. Yeah, it was a nice -- although I didn't play yesterday, it was nice to see and to watch. Some of the guys said it was great.

Yeah, to win today was important for me. I thought I did a good job out there. Yeah, I'm delighted.

Q. What were you pleased with particularly? The level, intensity, the fact that it was a quick match?

DANIEL EVANS: Yeah, I think the intensity and focus was great. Mentality was really good.

Yeah, I mean, intensity, as you just said, was high. I feel that won me a lot of points. He was a little sloppy on some things, but I thought that was definitely from my intensity and level of focus. It was good. That's just what I needed today, yeah.

Q. If you could talk about your next opponent. You could potentially meet Andy in the quarterfinals, looking at the draw. How has the England/Scotland banter been this week, given that the teams play on Friday?

DANIEL EVANS: Yeah, no, it's been all good, I think. We actually watched the Scotland match yesterday all together, so it was, you know, it was good. It was nice to -- it's been nice.

It's actually saving us in the bubble a bit, the Euros, and I think you sort of forget you're in the bubble on the evening and the day. It's been good and everybody has been getting involved, you know, other nationalities. It's been pretty unique and pretty cool, yeah.

Q. You have been watching it all together as a group on a big screen, or watching in a hotel room separately?

DANIEL EVANS: No, no. We have the running of the hotel, so there's a nice big screen in the eating area, bar bits. We've been all there together watching it, yeah.

Q. I just wondered what your assessment is of your sort of level at the moment? How do you feel overall? Not just this match but your level of tennis at the moment.

DANIEL EVANS: It's been good. Just still got to try and improve each day. Especially on the grass, you know, it's very difficult sometimes to play perfect tennis. Yeah, hang in points. It's a bit more aggressive and it's difficult.

But, yeah, I'm delighted with today and especially the level this year has been very good, yeah.