Lol well my comment above aged amazingly there :lol:

If you look at the Wimbledon final I mean the writing was on the wall there. I the end is coming it would have been nice to see him win here but I’m sure that Olympic win took a lot out of him mentally, physically and emotionally. He might even lack hunger now. Good to see a new winner though

And Draper cruises into the fourth round with another straight sets win.

That was a ruthless performance by Jack Draper to reach the quarter-finals.

Insane that he hasn’t dropped a set yet - and beating someone he’s lost against every time prior

Great performance from Draper. Thought it was going to be a close match from the first two or three games, but then he just ran away with it.

 

On the women's side, really pleased for Muchová to have another good run after missing so much of this year, and Bjork must be happy about Badosa.

And Draper is into the semi finals. I was not expecting him to win in straight sets. Boy is on fire!

The first man since Daniil Medvedev in 2020, to reach this stage without dropping a set. Very good going, and will see him break into the top 20 next week.

 

I hope he can put up a decent fight against either Sinner or Medvedev, take a set out of whichever one he ends up facing, even if the expectation is that he'd lose to either.

Draper is on fire my king x

 

Here's hoping whatever determination he's obviously turned up to this with can take him all the way to the final, but he's certainly got a task on his hands whoever he's facing in the semi final.

Home favourite Jessica Pegula staged a stunning comeback to set up an enticing US Open final against world number two Aryna Sabalenka.

 

American Pegula came back from a set, break and break point down to see off Karolina Muchova 1-6 6-4 6-2 and reach a first major singles final.

 

She will now face Sabalenka, who powered into the final for the second year in a row with a 6-3 7-6 (7-2) victory over American Emma Navarro 6-3 7-2.

 

The Belarusian is the first women's player since the great Serena Williams in 2019 to reach back-to-back singles finals at Flushing Meadows.

 

Sabalenka will be greeted by a wall of noisy support for New York-born Pegula on Saturday - but she already has experience in that area, having jokingly admonished the crowd for cheering for Navarro.

Draper, it will be a tough match for him against Sinner, going for Sinner in 4 sets although I hope do be proved wrong, if Draper did reach the final, would Sky show it on a free-to-air channel?, I know Amazon Prime did in 2021 when Emma won it, which I saw on Channel 4. Can't see it being on Channel 4 with them currently showing the Paralympics.

 

 

I was kind of hoping they’d show tonight’s match on free tv….

 

Hoping Jack puts up a fight and wins at least one set

Sinner looks in way better share physically so far, probably just shows the level Draper needs to go up to be at this level on a consistent basis, loads of double faults and it tells at this level.

Draper is constantly on his toes though, it’s not like it’s been a runaway game for Sinner so far.

Not to be for Draper. He'll be back.

An unseeded 15 year old British player, Mika Stojsavljevic, has won the girls' junior singles tournament. Well done her.

Sabalenka wins a very good final. I thought Pegula was going to win the second set, having come back from 0-3 down to 5-3 up, but she then lost four games in a row.

Jannik Sinner wins the mens' final. Taylor Fritz didn't play that badly, Sinner was just too good for him. He did the same that Sabalenka did yesterday in coming from 3-5 down to win the decisive set 7-5.

Sinner was miles miles miles better and when he needed it, he put the extra gear

 

I thought the Sabalenka-Pegula game was horrible to watch, error error error

ATP Ranking Movements:

 

2. Alexander Zverev (Germany)

4. Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

7. Taylor Fritz (USA)

8. Hubert Hurkacz (Poland)

9. Casper Ruud (Norway)

10. Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria)

11. Alex de Minaur (Australia)

12. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)

13. Tommy Paul (USA)

14. Holger Rune (Denmark)

15. Sebastian Korda (USA)

16. Frances Tiafoe (USA)

17. Ben Shelton (USA)

18. Ugo Humbert (France)

19. Lorenzo Musetti (Italy)

20. Jack Draper (Great Britain)