Dan Evans had a funny one-liner after winning the longest US Open tennis match in history

History was made at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday when British tennis player Dan Evans and Russian Karen Khachanov played the longest tennis match in US Open history together on Court 6 in Queens, New York.

Evans, who ended a 10-match losing streak with this win, fought his way to a 6-7 (8-6), 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4 victory in a match that lasted five hours and 35 minutes. And the 34-year-old had only one thing on his mind after this grueling match.

Sleep.

When Sky Sports asked him for his reaction to the historic five-set epic, Evans responded with a witty one-liner.

“I just want to go to bed,” Evans said, smiling.

Evans, ranked 184th in the world, was in trouble in the final set, trailing 0-4 with Khachanov firmly in control. What happened next was nothing short of astonishing.

Evans, visibly exhausted and physically battered, forced himself to win six games in a row and the match, buoyed by the support of the US Open crowd.

“I haven’t played much tennis this year,” Evans said. “I just tried to keep fighting. Yeah, 4-0, I thought I was out. I felt a little bit sorry for myself and then tried to get back into the swing of things. I didn’t want to be knocked out of this Grand Slam tournament. [Grand Slam] without much of a fight.”

“I could see he was struggling a little bit and I just tried to win one game at a time. My serve was obviously really, really, really bad because of my body. Now I just have a bad headache and I just need to get rid of it.”

The marathon match between Evans and Khachanov broke the previous US Open record for the longest match, a semifinal between Stefan Edberg and Michael Chang in 1992.

Evans will face Argentine Mariano Navone in the second round on Thursday.