Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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L16:  (25) Jack Draper WR 25 defeated Tomás Machac (CZE) WR 39 by 3, 1 & 2 

Much, much easier than I expected - except when he almost lost the eighth game of the third set!  The decaf coffee only rule must be working!  

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The young bucks lock horns:

QF:  (25) Jack Draper WR 25 vs (10) Alex de Miñaur (AUS) WR 10

Beeb report on Jack's match against Machac & his picking up the baton passed on by Andy.

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 Like Machac, Draper is 3-0 down in the head-to-head against De Minaur. A good omen?

Fritz beats Zverev in 4 sets to reach his first Slam SF

He will play Dimitrov or Tiafoe in the SF ( neither of them has got past the SF stage before so we will have a maiden Slam finalist ).

JonH comes home wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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Fritz beats Zverev in 4 sets to reach his first Slam SF

He will play Dimitrov or Tiafoe in the SF.

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 Bottom half is wide open. I fancy Dimitrov to get through to the final and win the whole event - I think hes been building for 12 months to this. 

Just watch, hell lose tonight now! 

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And he did lose! At least by retirement. So, an American finalist guaranteed.

Jack is second match on today, depends how long the first takes but somewhere around 6-30/7?  

There's talk in the Beeb's live text commentary the AdM may be suffering a bit physically...

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Yet Jack is the first to get treatment - right thigh bandaged.

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At *2-1 to Jack in the second set:

Jack Draper is getting a lot of tape applied to his upper right leg.

They have just shown Alex de Minaur wincing on the big screen while Draper gets his treatment. The Briton will certainly know about it.

At 3-1*:

Jack Draper has had plenty of injury problems in his career. He must be pleading for his body to hold up now. He's a set and a break to the good as he bids for a first Grand Slam semi-final.

The good news is Draper looks absolutely fine in this service game - a hold to love.