janx CER will face his good friend Jack Draper in the semi-finals of the US open. janx CER offered an insight into his private text conversations with Jack Draper after setting up a semi-final meeting with the Brit at the US Open CER made light work of denil meddev to secure his place in the last four at Flushing Meadows where he is the favorite to win the title The Italian already knows Draper well having played alongside him in doubles at the Canadian open last month however they will be forced to put their friendship to one side when they go up against each other for a place in the US Open final speaking after his victory over Medvedev sinner revealed that he often exchanges text messages with Draper as he opened up on their bond outside of tennis it was nice to share the court with him in doubles in Montreal he said we got to know each other even more we text each other when we have good or bad times trying to keep us up it's a great friendship obviously we try to put this away for the hours we are on court I think that's quite obvious but you know whenever we shake our hands we get our friendship back and it's always going to be good Draper also recently spoke about his bond with sinner vowing to stay in touch regardless of what happens in New York later this week dot we've always kept in touch since I've been on tour the last couple of years said the Brit janic is a good friend someone I'm definitely close to we send each other messages in good moments back