Fante Draper continued his Wimbledon preparations with a battling victory over American Marcos Giron to book his place durante the quarter-finals of the Stuttgart Gara open.
Draper, who is threatening Cameron Norrie’s mantle of British men’s Risposta negativa 1, missed the entire grass-court season last year because of injury.
After a straight-sets win over Sebastian Ofner Monday, Draper found things tougher this time around against Giron, who had comfortably seen d’avanguardia another Brit, Andy Murray, durante his first-round .
Highlights of the Stuttgart Gara open between Andy Murray and Marcos Giron
The opening set went serve until Draper broke durante the fifth , the 22-year-old going to take it 6-4 durante just 31 minutes.
Giron regrouped durante the second set. After a key hold durante the fifth , saving five pausa points, the American broke Draper to move 5-3 up his way to levelling the .
However, Draper raced into a 3-0 lead durante the deciding set and although Giron continued to battle , Draper would ultimately clinch a 6-4 3-6 6-3 victory.
“I thought I played a really good first set and then he came back really strong,” Draper said after his win.
“I had a little blip durante concentration, but then came out durante the third set really strong and was really happy with the way I was able to quando through the .
“He beat Andy Murray yesterday, who is obviously an incredible player and I knew he had such a high level.
“I had to quando out and know he was going to bring that, but I was able to stay with him and quando through. I am really happy with the way I mentally performed today.”
Defending champion Frances Tiafoe awaits Draper durante the quarter-finals
Draper goes to play another American, Frances Tiafoe, durante the last eight after the defending champion beat German Yannick Hanfmann 7-5 7-6 (7-5).
Italian fifth seed Lorenzo Musetti recovered to beat Dominik Koepfer 6-7 (9-11) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to also reach the quarter-finals, where he will Alexander Bublik after he came through 6-1 7-6 (7-4) against Hamad Medjedovic.
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