Top tennis player in sex assault inquiry

It is understood arrangements are being made for Evans, 19, to be questioned by detectives in relation to an alleged attack in Bath, Somerset, in the early hours of March 19.

Avon and Somerset Police published a photo appeal, asking for three men to come forward, who they believed could assist with their investigation.

The appeal said a woman left a nightclub with a friend and they began talking with two men before one pushed her on to a discarded mattress and sexually assaulted her.

Yesterday, a spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police said the men in the photograph had been identified and "arrangements were being made" to speak to them.

She added that Avon and Somerset Police had removed the appeal and photo from its website, as the men had now been identified.

A spokeswoman for the Lawn Tennis Association said yesterday that Evans, who is the third best tennis player in the UK behind Andy Murray and Alex Bogdanovic, would co-operate with the authorities.

She said: "This is a police matter, and we will co-operate fully with the authorities in their inquiries. It would therefore not be appropriate for us to comment further at this time."

Evans, who was beaten in the second round of a tournament in Bath during the week of March 19 by fellow Briton Josh Goodall, is one of the highest ranked teenagers on the ATP rankings list. He made his Davis Cup debut for Great Britain in September 2009.

A Birmingham native, he started playing tennis aged seven.

He was a member of the British team that won the World Junior Tennis Competition in the Czech Republic in 2004.

As a junior he captured four titles, reaching the 2008 Australian Open boys' singles quarter-finals.