It was a slightly strange match. As DavidC has said Bloomfield was a break up for most of both sets and served for them but watching the match the result never really seemed in doubt once Evo had broke back in the first set.

In the first set Evo started extremely poorly and struggled in his opening 4 service games. He was broken at *1-1 and faced a couple of break points at *2-4. He was in trouble in both but saved himself with a superb forehand cross court pass and a sublime backhand lob. From there the momentum changed. In the next game he quickly brought up two break points but some big serving got Bloomers out of trouble. Evo then held to love (his first decent service game of the match) and with Bloomers serving for the set raced to 0-40. Bloomers won a tentative next point and followed it up with 3 big serves to bring up set point. This time he missed his first serve and Evo took full advantage and hit a cracking return to Bloomers toes. At duece Bloomers missed an easy volley to gift Evo another break back point and this time he took it. Both players held comfortably enough and the tie break was close until Evo played a couple of cracking points at 5-4* to secure the set.

The second set started like the first. A ridiculously bad service game from Evo gifted Bloomers an early break and he quickly moved into a 4-1* lead. He had a point for 5-1 (courtesy of 3 Evo double faults) but the chance was quickly snuffed out. At 2-4* Evo played his first good game of the set and broke back only to play a terrible game and again go down a break. Bloomers again had the chance to serve for a set but his first serve (which he was heavily reliant on) had now largely disappeared. A combination of good returning and some poor errors resulted in another break. The next three games were all comfortable service holds and so into a tie break it went. Bloomers double faulted on the first and never recovered as Evo finished things off ruthlessly. Bloomers only accomplishment in the tie break was to make a ball boy cry by hitting him with a rocket of a serve.

All in all Bloomers was steady throughout while Evo was a mixture of some superb play and some dire play. Bloomers stuck to his natural game of serve volleying and trying to get to net as soon as possible in every point and while he had some success (and really has to play to his own strengths) on modern tennis courts he is always going to struggle with that game against someone as good as Evo.

After the match Evo did a short video interview, which I presume will go on the LTA website at some point. I didn't catch it all but he did say that he wants to get his ranking high enough to get him into the Aussie Open Qualies. This strikes me as a very realistic goal. As of Monday week he will be on 171 points and ranked about 270-275. He has further 29 points to defend this year so probably needs about 50 points to make the top 250 (which should easily be enough). As a bare minimum I would expect him to play the 15K futures at Glasgow and Cardiff as well as the Loughborough challenger. He could easily add a couple more European challengers, most likely Rennes where he won 3 qualifying and 1 main draw match last year.

I think it shows that dan plays well only under pressure, whether the pressure is Davis cup style, ie he is the massive underdog, or the pressure of losing a crucial match to someone who is ranked lower than he is.  So he plays rubbish till the business end of the set, then he realises he's got to turn on the big guns to win, so he does. 

But if he continues to play futures he'll never be sufficiently challenged, he needs to get to challenger level at least, and is capable of hitting well amongst the rank 100 players (as the Davis cup proved) when he can be bothered to play well enough to get himself up there.