BBC Sport · Sep 2, 2024
Dazzling Draper reaches US Open quarter-finals
Image caption, Jack Draper's previous best at a Grand Slam was a fourth-round exit at the 2023 US OpenJack Draper says it means "the absolute world" to have reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final after an emphatic victory over Tomas Machac at the US Open.
The 22-year-old produced a brilliant display to beat the Czech 6-3 6-1 6-2.
Draper is the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles at Flushing Meadows since Andy Murray in 2016.
"I thought I did the basics really well," Draper told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"I increased my level when I needed to and I was pretty clinical in some moments and that was it really.
"I felt like I competed really well and did what I needed to do."