Dan Evans attacks Wimbledon officials and accuses the opposing team of making comments about him during the interrupted first-round match against Alejandro Tabilo

• Evans has just returned from a knee injury sustained after slipping on the turf at Queen’s.

Dan Evans got into a heated argument with Wimbledon officials and members of his opponent Alejandro Tabilo’s coaching team during their interrupted first-round match.

Evans accused groundskeeper Remy Azemar of “not caring about the players” because he repeatedly complained that the surface of court 12 was too wet to play on.

The British number 3 has just returned from a knee injury sustained when he slipped on the grass at Queen’s.

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

Only after several inspections was the game finally interrupted on Tuesday shortly before 9 p.m. with the score at 3:3 in the second set and Evans one set behind “due to the condition of the court.”

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

Evans then celebrated with a fist salute to the crowd.

Officials later claimed that the decision to suspend play was due to the condition of the pitch and poor lighting conditions.

It wasn’t just the referees who felt Evans’ wrath when the Brit got into a verbal argument with members of Tabilo’s box.

Evans apparently accused her of making comments in his direction, and Tabilo even went over to mediate with his team.

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

“I’m just glad to have made it here because I injured my knee a few weeks ago and the initial prognosis was not good,” Evans wrote in his Mail Sport Column before the tournament.

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