Britain's Jack Draper Advanced to the quarterfinals of the US Open as he dominated Thomas machak in a straight sets Victory dra 22 sealed a 6 3616 to win in imperious fashion astonishingly so far in the US Open the British no one is yet to drop a set he had lost his three previous encounters with masak and yet recorded this crucial victory at the most opportune time at Flushing Meadows among the upsets that have lit up this Year's US Open Spanish Superstar Carlos alcaraz was eliminated from Draper's section of the draw potentially leaving the Britain a more winnable route to the late stages it was masak though who started the match initially with confidence making Draper work hard to win his first two service games and seemed like he could coldly curb the enthusiasm of British tennis fans when they were poised at three three level in the first set but if Draper took the first break against the apparent run of play he expertly pressed home his Advantage from there he kept up a Relentless quality of play as masak unraveled at times publicly arguing with his own team that was of no concern to Draper as he hit brilliant form to dispatch masak and progress to the quarterfinals Draper did have to work to close out the show in his trickiest game of the match the Britain saved three break points to put himself on the brink of victory at five one in the third set he turned the screw tighter as he inched ahead of masak in the seventh game of the final set with the check trying to hold serve just to put some gloss on the scoreboard a brilliant return of serve a forehand tapped over the net inside the line brought Draper to deu mashak was defiant slamming an ace past Draper as he managed to claim the game but that left Draper serving for victory with quick hands he scooped a gentle winner over the net the Britain then hit too long to go 15 15 an untimely double fault then gave masak a lead in the game machak stretched that to two break points Draper had to hold his nerve and defended the first break point as matchak struck just wide of the line a serve and volley from Draper then steered him through that danger he banged down a serve to reach match point and bossed the final rally to take the match in style