Tennis star questioned over sexual assault claim

BRITISH tennis player Dan Evans will "co-operate fully" with a police investigation into a sexual assault.

It is understood arrangements are being made for Evans, 19, to be questioned by detectives in relation to an alleged attack in Bath, Somerset, in the early hours of 19 March.

Avon and Somerset Police published a photo appeal, asking for three men to come forward who they believed could assist with their investigation.

The appeal said a woman left a nightclub with a friend and they began talking with two men before one pushed her on to a discarded mattress and sexually assaulted her.

Yesterday, a spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police said the men in the photograph had been identified and arrangements were being made to speak to them.

She added that the force had removed the appeal and photo from its website, as the men had been identified.

A spokeswoman for the Lawn Tennis Association said today that Evans, who is the third highest-ranked tennis player in the UK behind Andy Murray and Alex Bogdanovic, will co-operate with the authorities.

She said: "This is a police matter, and we will co-operate fully. It would therefore not be appropriate for us to comment further at this time."

Evans was beaten in the second round of a tournament in Bath during the week of 19 March by fellow Briton Josh Goodall.