Jack Draper was knocked out of the lads’s singles on the Canadian Open in straight units on Wednesday however got here again to win his doubles match later that day.
British No 1 Draper was enjoying his first hard-court singles match because the Miami Masters in March on the again of final week’s second-round exit to Taylor Fritz on clay on the Paris Olympics.
The 22-year-old was crushed 7-5 6-2 in little over an hour and a half as Australian Jordan Thompson deservedly arrange a last-32 showdown in opposition to second seed Alexander Zverev.
However, Draper returned to court docket simply two hours later to succeed in the lads’s doubles quarter-finals with Italian Jannik Sinner.
Draper paid a heavy value for a string of unforced errors in his singles defeat, lacking an opportunity to construct momentum forward of the US Open, the ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months, scheduled to start at Flushing Meadows on August 26 – reside on Sky Sports activities.
World No 30 Thompson seized the initiative with a break in recreation seven and finally capitalised on his third set level after the Briton briefly introduced the match again on serve.
Draper dug in to avoid wasting two break factors in his opening service recreation of the second set and produced some eye-catching winners through the contest.
However pricey double faults in video games three and 7 helped present his 30-year-old opponent a route into spherical two.
Nevertheless, Draper and Sinner beat Alexander Bublik and Ben Shelton 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 to succeed in the final eight of the lads’s doubles, so it isn’t throughout for the Briton this week in Montreal.
Elsewhere on the Canadian Open, Britain’s Harriet Dart misplaced 3-6 6-3 6-7 (2-7) in an exhilarating match to Diana Shnaider in Toronto.
Naomi Osaka beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur 6-3 6-1 as she prepares to return to the US Open for the primary time since 2022.
Diana Shnaider beat Harriet Dart in an exhilarating three units to progress to the second spherical of the Canadian Open in Toronto
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