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Dazzling Draper reaches US Open quarter-finals

Jack Draper says it means "the absolute world" to have reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final after an emphatic victory over Tomas Machac at the US Open.

The 22-year-old produced a brilliant display to beat the Czech 6-3 6-1 6-2.

Draper is the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles at Flushing Meadows since Andy Murray in 2016.

"I thought I did the basics really well," Draper told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I increased my level when I needed to and I was pretty clinical in some moments and that was it really.