Dan Evans attacks Wimbledon referees and accuses opposing team of comments made against him during interrupted first-round match with Alejandro Tabilo

• Evans has just returned from a knee injury he sustained after slipping on the grass at Queen’s Stadium

Dan Evans was involved in a heated exchange with Wimbledon officials and members of his opponent Alejandro Tabilo’s coaching staff during their abandoned first-round match.

Evans accused court superintendent Remy Azemar of “not caring about the players” after he repeatedly complained that the No. 12 court surface was too wet to play on.

The British No.3 has only just returned from a knee injury suffered when he slipped on the grass at Queen’s Stadium.

“I’ve already been injured in a wet pitch this season, I don’t want to do that again,” he told Azemar. “Remy, you don’t care about the players.”

The match was finally abandoned only after numerous checks were carried out “due to the condition of the court” just before 9pm on Tuesday with the score at 3-3 in the second set and Evans trailing by one set.

“You have to understand what I mean when I slipped at Queen’s and nearly broke my knee,” Evans told Azemar as he left the field.

Evans celebrated by pumping his fist into the crowd.

Authorities later claimed the decision to suspend play was due to a combination of the condition of the court and poor lighting.

It wasn’t just the judges who felt Evans’ wrath as the Briton engaged in a verbal war with members of the Tabilo lodge.

Evans apparently accused them of making comments about him, and Tabilo even went to mediation with his team.

Evans squandered three break points at 3-1 and then two more at 4-2 before Tabilo broke Evans’ serve to clinch the first set 6-2 in 40 minutes.

“I’m just happy to get here because I injured my knee a few weeks ago and the initial prognosis wasn’t good,” Evans wrote in his Mail Sport column ahead of the tournament.

“I’ve been pretty much sidelined, so I haven’t had much training and my expectations are pretty low. But it’s a good opportunity to get out on the court before I hope to play doubles with Andy Murray at the Olympics in Paris.”