Britain’s Dan Evans moved into the quarter-finals of the Surbiton Trophy in Surrey with a 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win over Germany’s Mats Moraing.

Evans, 28, was 41st in the world rankings in March 2017 before being suspended for 12 months after testing positive for cocaine in April 2017.

He will play Austria’s Jurgen Melzer, 37, in the quarter-finals on Friday.

In the women’s competition, Britain’s Gabriella Taylor moved into the last eight, but Katy Dunne was eliminated.

Taylor, 20, beat former British number one Heather Watson on Tuesday and followed that with a 6-2 6-3 victory over Hungary’s Fanny Stollar to set up a tie against Switzerland’s Conny Perrin.

“I did well considering I haven’t been feeling well and I was coughing non-stop during the match,” said Taylor, the world number 184.

“It was hard to get my breath back and sustain my level but in some ways it helped because I’ve got nothing to lose.

“I know I’m not 100% so it takes any kind of pressure off me and I just focused on being aggressive and believing in myself.”

Dunne, 23, was beaten 7-5 6-0 by American second seed Alison Riske.

Veteran Melzer next for Evans

Melzer reached the French Open semi-finals back in 2010 but is now ranked 1,245th after three injury-ruined seasons which have included lengthy absences because of serious shoulder, hip and elbow problems.

Evans is 858th in the world but will jump up the rankings after his win over world number 153 Moraing.

“He served well so it was a difficult match with not a lot of rallies,” said Evans.

“I hung in and tried to keep the ball in the court as much as possible. He’s been doing well lately so it’s a good win.”

Top seed Rafael Nadal will resume his fight to stay in the French Open on Thursday after his quarter-final against Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman was held up by rain.

Nadal, aiming for an 11th French Open title, trails the 11th seed 6-3 3-5.

The Spaniard lost his first set at Roland Garros since 2015 before a one-hour rain delay halted play.

Nadal, 32, fought back when the match resumed but more rain came and it was abandoned for the day at 18:37 BST.

Nadal and Schwartzman will resume a gripping last-eight match at 11:00 BST on Thursday, with the 25-year-old Argentine seeking to become only the third player to beat Nadal in 86 singles matches at the French Open.

Nadal suffered a shock last-16 loss to Sweden’s Robin Soderling in 2009 and, less surprisingly, to then-world number one Novak Djokovic in their 2015 quarter-final.

He also pulled out of the 2016 tournament with a wrist injury before his last-32 match against fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers.

Wednesday’s other quarter-final was also postponed until 11:00 BST on Thursday because of the rain, with Croatian third seed Marin Cilic and Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro level at 5-5 in a first-set tie-break.

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Nadal is the hot favourite to win the tournament, having dominated on the red clay since making his debut in 2005.

But a seismic shock looked on the cards when Schwartzman, who has not beaten Nadal in five previous attempts, won the first set.

Despite only standing 5ft 7in, the Argentine possesses a stinging forehand and used it aggressively to rock 16-time major winner Nadal.

He hit 20 winners as Nadal’s winning streak of 37 sets at Roland Garros, going back to his 2015 quarter-final defeat by Novak Djokovic, was ended.

Nadal, who spent almost three months out of the game after the 2016 French Open with a wrist injury, needed treatment on both of his wrists at the end of the first set.

The world number one went a break down at 2-1 in the second set, only for Schwartzman to hand it straight back to love.

But the inspired Argentine broke Nadal again to claim a 3-2 lead.

Then came the hour-long rain break, which disrupted Schwartzman’s momentum and allowed Nadal to regroup.

Nadal, returning with his famed forehand finally firing on all cylinders, earned back-to-back breaks to move within a hold of the set.

He led 30-15 as he aimed to tie the match before more rain arrived and the players ran off court – this time for the night.

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Defending champion and world number one Alfie Hewett will play doubles partner Gordon Reid in the wheelchair singles first round at the French Open.

It is the first time the British pair have been drawn together in the opening round of a Grand Slam.

Hewett, 20, won their only previous encounter at a major – in the semi-finals of last year’s US Open.

And he had won five matches in a row against Reid, 26, before losing to him in the Japan Open last month.

Last year’s triumph in Paris was Hewett’s first Grand Slam singles title, and he has many happy memories of that day.

“I remember walking, when I first got here, through the aisle by the court where I played the final last year,” Hewett told BBC Sport.

“I turned to my coach, and I said: ‘That’s where history was made – that’s where my first Grand Slam singles title was.’ It was a big, big step in my career.”

Reid, who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2016, feels he is growing in confidence.

“I’ve been putting in some good work over the last two or three months,” he said.

“I feel like I’m on that upward curve. Tennis is so much about confidence and you get your confidence from winning matches and I’ve done that a lot recently.”

In the doubles competition, Reid and Hewett will play Frederic Cattaneo of France and Stefan Olsson of Sweden.

World number one Simona Halep fought back from a set down to beat Angelique Kerber 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 6-2 and move into the French Open semi-finals.

Two-time finalist Halep remained on course for her first Roland Garros title by beating the German 12th seed.

Halep, 28, will play 2016 champion Garbine Muguruza, of Spain, in the semi-finals on Thursday.

Muguruza moved into the final four with a convincing 6-2 6-1 victory over Russia’s Maria Sharapova on Wednesday.

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Garbine Muguruza moved a step closer to regaining the title by beating two-time winner Maria Sharapova in a one-sided French Open quarter-final.

The Spanish third seed, who claimed the title in 2016, dominated from the start and ended the Russian 30th seed’s hopes with a 6-2 6-1 victory in 70 minutes.

The reigning Wimbledon champion, 24, has not dropped a set at Roland Garros.

She will play Romania’s world number one Simona Halep or Germany’s Angelique Kerber in the last four.

Both Muguruza and Halep, who is searching for her first Grand Slam title, could finish the tournament as the world number one.

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No dream ending for Sharapova

Sharapova was making her comeback at Roland Garros, having been refused a wildcard last year shortly after her return from a 15-month drugs ban.

After a confidence-boosting run to the last four in Rome, she was eyeing her first Grand Slam semi-final since she went on to reach the 2015 Australian Open final.

That never looked like happening as Muguruza dominated from the start.

Sharapova had not played for four days after long-time rival Serena Williams pulled out of their last-16 match with a pectoral injury.

Muguruza, meanwhile, barely played either as Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko pulled out of their fourth-round match with a hip problem after only 20 minutes.

But the lack of court time appeared to affect Sharapova more as she made a sloppy start.

Three double faults from Sharapova in the opener gifted an early advantage to Muguruza, another in the sixth deuce of an 11-minute third game helping the Spaniard go 3-0 ahead.

With momentum behind her, Muguruza continued to dominate and served out to win the opener set in 42 minutes.

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Muguruza had not enjoyed a successful clay-court season before arriving in Paris, winning just twice on the surface in Madrid and losing her opening matches in Stuttgart and Rome.

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