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Beverley, the Yorkshire market town, can boast an impressive Gothic minster, a renowned race track and some rather cosy pubs. What it can’t offer is the low-tax regime of the Bahamas.

And so Kyle Edmund, the British No 3 male tennis player, has moved to sunnier climes 4,000 miles away. He will find he gets to keep significantly more of his prize money in his own pocket.

The 22-year-old player from Yorkshire, who is ranked No 50 in the world, has changed his official residence from Beverley, near Hull, to Nassau, the capital city of the Caribbean tax haven.

While a Nassau base offers excellent practice opportunities for Edmund — he is training in the Bahamas before the 2018 season — and a convenient

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Brit Kyle Edmund started his 2018 season with a come-from-behind victory at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp on Tuesday. The 22-year-old Edmund came from a set down against #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov to advance 6-7(5), 7-6(4), 6-4.

Edmund had trailed Shapovalov in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series 1-2 but the Brit saved five of six break points to prevail in two hours and 30 minutes. Edmund struggled serving in the opener, landing fewer than 50 per cent of his first serves. But he upped his level in the second and third sets, and served out the first-round match with his fifth ace.

"[In the] first match of the year, you don't really know what to expect, so it's good to come through like that. To come through a tough match as well… you have to play good tennis in pressure situations. To beat Denis [Shapovalov] in this match is good. I’m pleased with it," said Edmund.

"Everything wasn't quite flowing together but I kept going. I served a lot better in the second and third and generally... I felt a little bit more comfortable."

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He will next meet reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung, who upset fifth seed Gilles Muller 6-3, 7-6(1). Muller blasted 19 aces but Chung took his chances on Muller's second serve, winning 64 per cent of those points (18/28).

Muller was playing in his first match since the Moselle Open in Metz in mid-September. The 34-year-old ended his 2017 season early because of tendonitis in his serving elbow (left).

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In other action, #NextGenATP American Michael Mmoh celebrated his first ATP World Tour victory, beating Argentina's Federico Delbonis 6-3, 6-4. The 19-year-old Mmoh had been 0-7 in tour-level matches, but he showed no signs of nerve as he served for the match.

Mmoh held to love for the milestone victory. He will next face eighth seed Mischa Zverev of Germany in the second round.

In singles action, Denis Istomin produced a come-from-behind win to kick-start his 2018 season as he upset seventh seed Damir Dzumhur 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-2. Istomin managed to break serve on six occasions in the two hour, 25 minute first round which set up a meeting with American Jared Donaldson.

After a week of injury woe at the Queensland Tennis Centre, the sight of Grigor Dimitrov hurdling the net and rushing to the side of a prostrate Kyle Edmund was not what British tennis fans wanted to see.

Over the previous 36 hours, Andy Murray had flown home with a chronic hip injury, and Johanna Konta had then been forced to withdraw from her quarter-final here with a muscle twinge in her own right hip.

So when Edmund was wrong-footed by a Dimitrov forehand on Friday, and crashed to the ground with a shout of pain, it was natural to fear the worst. Dimitrov was certainly worried, as he dashed across the court with as slippery a turn of speed as he had shown all match.

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Thankfully, though, Edmund’s involvement in the quarter-final did not end there. Once Dimitrov had helped him to his chair, and once his right ankle had been bound up with stiff tape, he was able to play out the final three games of his 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 defeat.

Yes, the interruption might have robbed him of any real chance of victory. But he still sounded confident afterwards that he would be able to fulfil his commitments at the Auckland Open, where he will probably play his first match on Tuesday.

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Grigor Dimitrov helped Edmund back to his feet after the tumble CREDIT: AFP
“It made a crack when I went down because the ankle got extended a bit too much,” Edmund said. “I’ve done it twice before. So from the past, the next morning it's a bit tender but then, after a day or two, it settles down. It's just a rolled ankle.”

The injury occurred at 4-3 in the third set, and unbalanced what had previously been a taut struggle.

Dimitrov is coming off a triumphant sequence at November’s ATP Finals, where he claimed the biggest title of his career. So for Edmund to stretch the world No. 3 as he did, particularly in a thunderous second-set tie-break, gave a sense of his unlocked potential.

His bone-crushing forehand has rarely been more lethal, and he way he backed it up - serving six aces and covering the court superbly until that unfortunate trip - suggested a man playing at a significantly higher level than his world ranking of No. 50.

As Dimitrov's speedy and sporting reaction to his injury, Edmund said “He's always been like that, Grigor - a good guy on and off the court.

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Edmund confirmed he expects there to be no lasting damage CREDIT: REUTERS
“It’s good to see that someone is concerned about you, but as tennis players you generally are. I think somebody's got to be a right …” – he couldn’t think of an appropriate term here, so settled for raising an eyebrow meaningfully – “… to not show any concern when someone's just gone over.”

In other news, Serena Williams announced that she will not be defending her Australian Open title, which she won while eight weeks pregnant. “Although I am super close, I'm not where I want to be,” said Williams in a statement. “My coach and team always said 'only go to tournaments when you are prepared to go all the way.'”

And the annual report of the Tennis Integrity Unit showed that the number of alerts prompted by suspicious betting patterns fell in 2017. The total was 241 last year, after reaching 292 in 2016 and 246 the previous season.

It did not take long for a classic to unfold at the 2018 Australian Open. And if the rest of the fortnight lives up to how it has begun, fans around the world are in for a treat.

World No. 49 Kyle Edmund recovered from a 0-2 deficit in the fifth set to spring an early upset against the No. 11 seed Kevin Anderson, withstanding 35 aces in his 6-7(4), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory that lasted three hours, 59 minutes.

It was no surprise that this was a match of the highest quality after Edmund showed his good form by pushing 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov to 4-4 in the third set before succumbing to the Bulgarian in the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp. The 23-year-old defeated Next Gen ATP Finals champion Hyeon Chung in the previous round and #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov in his opener in Brisbane.

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But what stood out on Show Court 3 against Anderson was his fighting spirit. Many players would put their heads down when broken by the massive-serving South African hours into a tough battle. Yet Edmund came right back with tremendous returning to break in the very next game.

And while Anderson did well to save two break points from 15/40 at 3-3 in the final set, Edmund seized his third opportunity two points later to gain a lead he would not relinquish, earning two more holds without dropping a point on serve to clinch the triumph.

Edmund will next confront Denis Istomin, who battled through a tough fourth set to defeat Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 7-6(3).

The Edmund-Anderson classic was not the only thriller early on opening day.

Ryan Harrison, who proved his form early on in 2018 with a run to his third ATP World Tour final at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp (l. to Kyrgios), was down and nearly out at Melbourne Park. But after breaking when Dudi Sela served for the match at 5-4 in the fourth set, Harrison stormed back to oust the Israeli 6-3, 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.

The 25-year-old broke at nine of 19 opportunities and hit 62 winners to advance to the second round, where he will face the No. 31 seed Pablo Cuevas. The Uruguayan took out Russian veteran Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(6), 6-3, 7-5.

And while it looked for a moment that No. 10 seed Pablo Carreno Busta, who played two matches at last year's Nitto ATP Finals as an alternate, would perhaps suffer the same fate as Anderson, the Spaniard navigated his way past Australian wild card Jason Kubler 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Carreno Busta fell behind 1-4 in the third set before winning the next nine games to take a commanding lead. The right-hander broke serve nine times in the match, including six times in the final two sets alone.

Kyle Edmund is doing his bit to fly the flag for the Brits in Andy Murray’s absence, through to the second round of Australian Open 2018 with a comeback five-set triumph over US Open finalist Kevin Anderson.

In the battle of the two Johannesburg-born players, it was the more consistent Edmund who withstood the 11th seed’s 35 aces to prevail 6-7(4) 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 on Monday.

For the second time in as many meetings between the pair – after Anderson’s victory in the third round at Roland Garros last season – the match would go the distance.

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But this moment belonged to the Brit – this, the highest-ranked player he had beaten.

“Yeah, really good result for me. It was great to win at the end like that… Just getting through a tough match like that. Also a quality player [who] had a good year last year, started this year really well,” Edmund said.

“Those type of results make it just really feel good, worth it basically. So really happy.”

Three times Anderson had ventured to the fourth round at Melbourne Park but his deepest run at a major came as a bolt from the blue at Flushing Meadows last season where, as the No.32 seed, he became the first South African to reach a Grand Slam final since Kevin Curren at Australian Open 1984, before he went down to Rafael Nadal.

Keen to prove his surprise run to last year’s US Open final was no flash in the pan, he got off to the perfect start when he ripped back-to-back forehand winners to close out the opening-set tiebreak.
Both players arrived with a solid lead-up campaign.

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Anderson had ended a three-match losing streak to reach the final in Pune, India, while Edmund arrived on the back of an impressive run in Brisbane where he reached the quarterfinals with three-set triumphs over Next Gen players Denis Shapovalov and Hyeon Chung, before he fell to Grigor Dimitrov.

“I lost a lot of close ones last year. I wanted to do better this year, especially against those more top guys, I guess,” Edmund said. “Like Brisbane, I had two good wins against two young guys, but quality opponents.

“Yeah, quite a good measure actually. When I lost last April, May to Kevin in five, it's a good measure. Like what is it, nine, eight months on [from] that I'm beating him in five now? Of course, close margins. Maybe I would have lost, but I didn't. I won. It's good to see that.”

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After a 20-minute rain delay, with scores locked at a set apiece on Showcourt 3, a concentration lapse cost 23-year-old Edmund the break for 3-5 as Anderson served his way to a two-sets-to-one advantage.

Edmund had five in mind, however, and set about sending it the distance when he survived triple break point to hold for 3-0 in the fourth, bringing a fist pump of approval from his coach, Fredrik Rosengren.

It was Edmund who stood steadier as he levelled at two sets all and he capitalised on the 11th seed’s soaring error count to break for 4-3, before closing it out to book a second-round meeting with Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, an earlier four-set winner of Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

He may be doing it alone at this year’s Australian Open, but carrying the flag for the British men doesn't feel so daunting right now for Edmund.

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Kyle Edmund is a win away from celebrating the best Grand Slam tournament of his life. The 23-year-old matched his best Grand Slam showing on Friday, winning 13 of the final 18 games of his third-round match to beat Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-6(0), 3-6, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5.

“It was really good to win a match like that in tough conditions - mentally, physically,” said Edmund. “[There are] just lots of positives. Physically and mentally it takes a lot out of you, that type of match - just to keep fighting and chipping away. The heat [also] zaps the energy out of you.”

Edmund advances to the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the second time. He also made the Round of 16 at the 2016 US Open before falling to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

But he won't have to face another member of the “Big Four” when he plays to reach the quarter-finals in Melbourne. Edmund, No. 49 in the ATP Rankings, will next face Italy's Andreas Seppi.

“He’s a very tough opponent,” said Seppi. “He can play some very fast tennis, especially with the forehand. Yes, of course, he is very dangerous. But I think it's another good match for me. Hopefully, I can play some other good tennis in the next round.

“He's one of the best upcoming players. He has a very powerful game. I think for sure he can do well in the next years.