Draper is in the US Open semi-finals!
It's safe to say that hardly anyone saw this coming.
Jack Draper, 22 and number 25 in the world, has just booked his place in the US Open semi-finals. Amazing!
Buoyed by his top-quality tennis, the Brit did not steal his place.
Although he benefited from a clearly favorable draw, he will enter Friday's semi-finals without having lost a single set.
Winning all his matches with great authority, he was not much challenged by De Minaur, with the exception of the 2nd set, which he almost lost against the run of play.
Highly effective on serve, impactful on return and appropriately aggressive in the exchange, Draper left nothing to the world number 10, who was never really able to exist, despite a burst of pride in the second set (6-3, 7-5, 6-2).
For an unthinkable place in the final, he will face the winner of what seems more than ever to be the final before its time, the match between Sinner and Medvedev.
US Open 
When tennis stars change courts: from Noah the singer to Safin the deputy, another match – the battle of reinvention 
As a laboratory for tomorrow’s tennis, does the Next Gen Masters have a future? 
Tennis: the little-known truths about the offseason, between rest, stress and physical survival 
What if tennis lost its soul? The case of robotized officiating, between tradition and a dehumanized modernity 
