Dan Evans bundled out of opening round of the French Open

Dan Evans' Roland Garros campaign was ended abruptly by Thanasi Kokkinakis on Sunday.

Evans finally won his first match at the French Open last year but could not achieve the same result here, going down 6-4 6-4 6-4 to the powerful Australian in hot and lively conditions.

The British number two appeared to have turned the match around in the second set when he led 4-1 but, at 30-0 in the next game, he was faulted for his foot crossing the centre line.

Evans promptly lost four points in a row, slamming his water bottle to the ground in annoyance and earning a code violation, and he did not win another game in the set as the match slipped away.

He gave himself a chance by breaking Kokkinakis, the player beaten by Andy Murray from two sets down in the early hours of the morning at the Australian Open, to pull himself back to 4-4 in the third set.

But Evans promptly dropped serve again and Kokkinakis did not allow him a second chance.

"Disruptive, wrong, a few other things you could say about it," said Evans about the foot foul.

"It's the game. But, once again, the players are held responsible, but the umpires and line judges are not held responsible. I'll be getting fined, obviously, for breaking the water bottle.

"I obviously knew it was a rule but I tend to know where my feet are. It just totally threw me where I was then serving from. It was difficult from then on. I lost all trust in where my feet were. It's a very minor thing, but it became a pretty big thing in my head.

"If they're going to call that foot fault, it shouldn't be from 35 metres away, from fence to fence through a net. That's not the reason I lost, but I was right in the match at that point."

The 33-year-old's defeat means Cameron Norrie and Jack Draper are the only British players left in the singles main draws.