 He advanced to the main draw of the tournament for the first time in his career where he lost comfortably to 18th seed Feliciano López, winning only five games in three sets.At the RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas in February, Evans was beaten by Kyle Edmund in the first all-British Challenger final since 2005, when Alex Bogdanovic beat Mark Hilton.Six weeks later, there was a second all-British final, at the Challenger Banque Nationale de Drummondville in Canada, where World No 157 & British No 4, Evans defeated World no 531 & British No 17, Edward Corrie, 6–3, 6–4 to claim his third ATP Challenger title.