Jack Draper into US Open semi-finals as Brit blows Alex De Minaur away after injury scare【News】

[Music] British number one Jack Draper is into the semifinals of a grand slam for the very first time his career at the US Open Jack Draper is two wins away from emulating Emma Rican new at the US Open after another stunning performance took him to his first Grand Slam final the British number one saw off world number 10 Alex De Manor 6375 62 to reach the last four here without dropping a set despite having never even got to a slam quarterfinal before this the Aussie was struggling with his hip injury but Draper also needed treatment on a thigh injury before winning this survival of the fittest ashes contest in style serving for the match he hit an ace two forehand winners and a backhand winner for the biggest win of his life he also fired down 11 Aces Katie balter's boyfriend de Manor battled he saved 4 out of 20 break points but he could not stay with the youth pace and power of Draper who is now on his road to sporting superstardom the big left-hander looked at home in his first appearance in the Arthur Ash Stadium the biggest Court in the world and has now won 15 consecutive sets in New York British teenage qualifier radak canu won the title here in 2021 in the biggest shock in major history without dropping a set she never faced a top 10 player as the highest ranked player she beat was world number 12 Belinda bensik in the quarterfinals Draper beat four unseated players in the first four rounds with Chinese number one Jang xen pulling out injured after only 65 minutes with a knee problem he has now seen off the injured world number 10 but will now face the winner of the Blockbuster quarterfinal between Grand Slam champions Janik sner and denil medvive on Friday day the Siri based star 22 has already made his own history in the first Grand Slam since Andy Murray retired he is the first British man to reach the semi-finals here since the Scot on his way to the title in 2012 de Manor had pulled out on the eve of his Wimbledon quarterfinal with Novak jokovic after tearing a hip cartilage during his fourth round win he claimed he was only 80 to 85% before beating Dan Evans in the third round and Tim Henman told Sky Sports that the Aussie had been struggling to serve during his pre-match warm-up [Applause] [Music] e [Music] foree foreign [Music] take [Music] that e e