Draper Beats Paul To Reach Madrid Open Last Eight

An charismatic Jack Draper booked his spot successful nan quarter-finals of nan Madrid Open pinch a convincing 6-2 6-2 triumph against Tommy Paul.

The British number 1 collapsed nan American successful nan 3rd and seventh games and served retired to emotion to return nan first group successful 32 minutes.

Paul's service was being put nether nan greater unit and, while he saved 2 break points successful nan 3rd crippled of nan 2nd set, Draper collapsed him to emotion successful nan 5th crippled to spell 3-2 up.

A stunning forehand down nan statement put Draper 5-2 and a double break up and he comfortably won nan adjacent crippled connected his service to triumph nan lucifer successful 1 hr and 7 minutes.

"I felt really bully retired there," Draper told Sky Sports. "I cognize Tommy is simply a awesome subordinate and I had to beryllium connected him from nan off. I felt good.

"I deliberation astir apt for nan players who are from nan UK aliases who don't play connected this aboveground often, they spell into it pinch nan mindset they are not going to beryllium that awesome connected it and, therefore, that tin forestall them going further.

"I cognize I tin play good connected this aboveground and this twelvemonth it's been a large extremity of excavation to beryllium that I tin play really well. I cognize that if I want to beryllium a apical subordinate that I person to."

The powerful forehand of Draper, who did not look a break constituent successful nan match, was successful bully moving bid passim arsenic he deed 13 of his 20 winners pinch it.

Paul only managed 7 winners successful nan match, while he made 31 unforced errors compared to 11 from his opponent.

Draper, who is astatine a career-high sixth successful nan world rankings, is nan 5th seed astatine nan Madrid Open and nan highest classed subordinate remaining.

He will play Matteo Arnaldi successful nan past 8 aft nan Italian, who knocked retired Novak Djokovic, hit Frances Tiafoe 6-3 7-5.