Australian Open 2025 qualifiers: Harriet Dart and Heather Watson win, Dan Evans out

Nice Britain’s Harriet Dart and Heather Watson are each by way of to the second spherical of Australian Open qualifying, however Dan Evans is out.

Third-seeded Dart, who lately dropped out of the world’s high 100, defeated Australia’s Lizette Cabrera 6-2 7-6 (7-5) in Melbourne.

Watson had a hard-fought 7-5 6-7 (14-16) 6-2 win over Lola Radivojevic of Serbia.

There was disappointment, nonetheless, for British males’s fifth seed Evans, who misplaced 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Japan’s James Trotter.

Billy Harris, who has by no means reached an Australian Open most important draw, will face Japan’s Yuta Shimizu within the first spherical of qualifying in a while Monday.

Dart will face one other Australian in Taylah Preston within the subsequent spherical on Tuesday, whereas Watson will play American veteran Varvara Lepchenko.

Britain’s Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu, Sonay Kartal, Jodie Burrage, Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley all went straight into the primary main draw for 2025.