Dan Evans’ epic loss to Vasek Pospisil leaves Britain’s Davis Cup hopes lying with Kyle Edmund

BRITAIN’S DAVIS CUP hopes depend on Kyle Edmund after Dan Evans lost an epic fourth rubber.

Evans came from two sets and break down against Vasek Pospisil but could not outlast the Canadian, who was playing his third match in three days.

Now Edmund will have to bounce back from his own drubbing by Pospisil on the first day and beat teenager Denis Shapovalov in the deciding rubber to seal a place in the quarter finals.

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Evans lost the first set on a tiebreak after being a break up and then fell two behind.

When the big-serving Canadian moved ahead in the third, it looked like curtains for the Brummie.

But Evans fought back to take the third 6-3 and when he moved a break ahead in the fourth it seemed the match was going all the way.

Pospisil, though, fed off the energy of the Ottawa crowd, saved a break point in the ninth game of the fourth set and then won the tiebreak to clinch a 7-6 6-4 3-6 7-6 win.