Britain’s Jack Draper continued his wonderful type by upsetting No 2 seed Hubert Hurkacz to achieve the Japan Open quarter-finals.
Draper, enjoying his first particular person event since reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final on the US Open earlier this month, beat his Polish opponent 6-4 6-4 in Tokyo.
The 22-year-old misplaced each of his matches for Nice Britain on the Davis Cup however has picked up the place he left off in event play with two straight-sets victories in Japan.
Draper claimed the one two breaks of serve within the match to take 3-2 leads in each units, and was in a position to deny Hurkacz on every of the three alternatives the world No 8 needed to break.
The victory maintains Draper’s late cost for a spot within the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin subsequent month, with the Briton effectively positioned to make additional progress this week from his present rating of twentieth.
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