Jack Draper ousts Fabio Fognini to set round of 16 clash with Thiem at Winston-Salem
Jack Draper defeated Fabio Fognini 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 on Tuesday night. He’ll face Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem in the next round
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The eye-opening season of 20-year-old British hopeful Jack Draper continues to improve.
The No 13 seed won against Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 on Tuesday evening to move into the last 16 of the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest Tennis Complex on Tuesday night.
Draper, ranked No 55 and tabbed by many as a future top-50 talent, will play Austrian wildcard Dominic Thiem next.
Now 12-7 on the season, Draper entered 2022 with a 2-3 record at the ATP level. He has been particularly strong this summer, reaching a semi-final at Eastbourne and, more recently, his first Masters 1000 quarter-final at the National Bank Open in Montreal.
In the previous round of the Winston-Salem, Fognini, ranked No 61, defeated Serb Dusan Lajovic (7-5, 7-5). The 36-year-old Italian, ranked 61, drops to 16-18 on the season.
Winston-Salem ATP 250, other second-round matches results (Wake Forest Tennis Complex, hard, USD 823.420, most recent results first):
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Alejandro Tabilo
- Jaume Munar vs. Chun-Hsin Tseng: wednesday
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Botic Van De Zandschulp: wednesday
- Marc-Andrea Huesler (Q) beat Mikael Ymer (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Dominic Thiem beat Grigor Dimitrov (1): 0-6, 4-2 ret.
- Benjamin Bonzi (10) beat Kyle Edmund: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Steve Johnson beat Pedro Martinez (12): 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Adrian Mannarino beat Emil Ruusuvuori (9): 6-4, 6-1
- Maxime Cressy (4) beat James Duckworth: 6-3, 6-3
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas (8) beat John Millman: 6-4, 6-4
- Jason Kubler (Q) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 7-5, 6-2
- Laslo Djere beat João Sousa (16): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Ilya Ivashka (11) beat Peter Gojowczyk: 6-4, 6-2
- Richard Gasquet beat Lorenzo Musetti (5): 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
- Thiago Monteiro beat Nikoloz Basilashvili (6): 6-4, 6-1
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