Jack Draper beat Brandon Nakashima to qualify for the semi-finals of the Queen’s Club championship and guarantee that he will be fourth seeded in Wimbledon.
This is an important step for draper, which means that it would avoid potential matches with Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner to the semi-final of his major at home later this month.
Friday, in Queen’s, he beat the Brandon Nakashima in three tight sets, 6-4 5-7 6-4.
Nakashima opened the match with a solid service match, but soon Draper had it under pressure. He took an early break in the first set and consolidated it with a catch in the next match.
This put it in a dominant position. Nakashima obtained two breaking points in the sixth game, but Draper finally pushed the threat. He exploded an ace to take the first set.
In the second set, Nakashima began to serve better, tightening the competition. He remained composed when he obtained two section points against the draper service. The British No. 1 defended the first but struck the second for too long while Nakashima took the match to a decision maker.
Draper seized a break in the seventh game and built on it to take a clear advance in the final set.
Serving for the set, Draper dropped 0-30 behind Nakashima before a heavy Ace brought her to the match. The American has always exerted pressure on draper by obtaining two break points to draw the level overall decisive. But the right -to -tip forehand on the draper line defended the first and he yelled at satisfaction while Nakashima struck a return of service for too long to take them to Deuce.
Draper went to Match Point and ran to the net to send Nakashima rushing to the field before ending the match.
Fearnley’s race was interrupted in the quarterfinals
Jiri Lehecka ended Jacob Fearnley’s race in Queen’s
The 23 -year -old will play Jiri Lehecka in the semi-finals after the Czech brought Jacob Fearnley The Queen’s Club ends at its end in the quarterfinals.
British No. 2 had heavy legs in a 7-5 6-2 defeat for error against n ° 30 in the Czech world.
Fearnley had to play the opening match on Andy Murray Arena despite a three exhausting set against Corentin Moutet the day before, followed by a victory in the doubles – alongside Cameron Norrie – against Lehecka and Taylor Fritz.
Lehecka came for this defeat by preventing Fearnley from becoming the first British man to reach the semi-finals during the beginnings of the Queen’s club in 48 years.
Fearnley has coughed eight double faults in the first set, three of which in the two games in which Lehecka broke his service.
Lehecka hit 3-2 again in the second after a fearnley’s right blow won a millimeter, then fled with the match, filling the victory in an hour and 17 minutes.
Medvedev until lasting the four in Halle
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Daniil Medvedev was forced to retain the game due to the suffering with nose bleeding, then he struck a superb winner on the point of return against Alex Michelsen at the Halle Open
Daniil Medvedev overcome nose bleeding to reach the semi-finals of the terra Wortmann open in Germany.
Medvedev took a medical time for a medical time to cope with the unwanted interruption of the second set against Alex Michelsen, but the world n ° 11 plowed to beat his American opponent 6-4 6-3.
“The shadows on the field made the conditions quite difficult,” said former No. 3 World Medvedev after an 85 -minute match in which Michelsen pushed four match points.
“It took a while to get used to it. It was then better in the second set.”
Medvedev did not give up a set in the Halle tournament and will meet Alexander Zverev For a place in the final.
The German favorite reserved his last place with a hard victory played 6-4 7-6 (8-6) on the Italian Flavio Cobolli.
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