Jack Draper has progressed to the semifinals of a grand slam for the first time with his impressively dominant run at the 2024 US Open the 22-year-old delivered a strong display to down world no 10 Alex De Minar 6 to3 7 to5 6-2 in the quarterfinals in Arthur rash Stadium at Flushing Meadows to te s amazing honestly to be out here for my first match on the biggest Court in the world it's a dream come true for me the Brit said in his on court interview after beating deor I think I played a solid match I feel the best fitness wise I've been in a long time that's where Alex has gotten me in the past I also think he was struggling a bit with something which may have helped me a bit but credit to Alex he's an amazing player and fighter we were going to have many more battles to come do Draper has dropped only 36 games in his five victories on route to the last four and he is yet to be pushed to a tie break having lost more than four games in a set only once in the last 40 years only tennis Legends Novak jokovic and Ivan lendel have lost fewer games than Draper in a run to the usopen semifinals. jokovic dropped 27 games on route to the last four in 2016 32 in 2012 and 33 in 2013 while lendel lost 3 4 on his way to the 1,986 semifinals Draper is the fourth British man to reach the semifinals of the US Open in the open era following Greg rusetsky Tim Henman and Andy Murray do rusetsky is the only other British man to make the last four at the New York Major without losing a set having achieved this during his run to the final in 1997 do Murray became the only British player to win the US Open men s singles event in the open era when he secured his Maiden Grand Slam Crown at Flushing Meadows in 2012 Henman who made the US Open semifinals in 2004 hailed Draper s performance against Dior I think he can be so proud of so many different aspects he played great tennis the former world no for set on Sky Sports