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While we’re waiting for the action to start:Two months ago, amid Andy Murray’s tearful farewell to Wimbledon and Jack Draper’s first grand slam tournament as the British No 1, Draper was anointed by the scriptwriters as Murray’s ready-made successor, someone who could grasp the baton immediately and carry home hopes that fortnight.
But here Draper is, just one grand slam later, playing in his first major quarter-final, eight years after Murray’s last appearance at this stage of US Open. And he’s not dropped a set to get this far. And he’s in the quarter of the draw that lost Alcaraz early on. Make no mistake, this is a superb chance to get to the semis for Draper, the lefty player who’s really right-handed ., who’s also having the best season of his life.
As for the head-to-head, De Minaur leads it 3-0, including the past two matches on hard courts, but Draper is a different player now, both physically and mentally, and De Minaur knows it. It’s going to be a lot of fun watching how this one plays out.Before that we’ve got the not-so-small-matter of: Karolina Muchova v Beatriz Haddad Maia in the women’s quarter-finals. Muchova, the 2023 French Open runner-up, reached the New York semis last year but has had a torrid time since, missing 10 months with a wrist injury, so the Czech is unseeded this time around. Haddad Maia is the first Brazilian woman to be playing in the US Open quarter-finals since Maria Bueno back in 1968. They’ll be stepping on to Arthur Ashe in about five minutes’ time.
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