Opportunity knocks for man on a mission Scott Evans

Scott Evans does not demur when you suggest he has sometimes been his own worst enemy. In fact, he agrees wholeheartedly.

A complex individual, Evans is wonderful company, friendly and generous with his time. But there is a darker, brooding side to the Dundrum native that induces a sometimes self-destructive, or at least self-hindering, degree of introspection.

He is Ireland’s greatest ever badminton player, the first male from these shores to play in the Olympics when qualifying for Beijing eight years ago.