Draper battles into Queen's semi-final

JACK Draper guaranteed himself a top-four seeding at Wimbledon after reaching the semi-finals at Queen's Club for the first time.

- BY ANDY SIMS

The British number one battled past American Brandon Nakashima 6-4 5-7 6-4 on the Andy Murray Arena.

Draper is now two wins away from becoming only the second home men’s singles winner in the Open era - after the man the court is named in honour of.

But more importantly, Draper has moved above Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz in the world rankings to a career-high of four.

That means at Wimbledon, the 23-year-old can avoid Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the world numbers one and two respectively, until the semi-finals.