Article 6QHR2 Jannik Sinner brings Jack Draper’s New York adventure to a brutal end

Jannik Sinner brings Jack Draper’s New York adventure to a brutal end

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Tumaini Carayol at Flushing Meadows
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After navigating the most important two weeks of his blossoming career with formidable ruthlessness and self-belief, Jack Draper walked on to Arthur Ashe Stadium for the biggest match of his career fully aware that the challenge required him to elevate both his game and physicality to new levels in order to contend with the No 1 men's player, Jannik Sinner.

Despite fighting with everything he had though, Draper was unable to show his best qualities as he struggled physically in humid conditions, vomiting multiple times. In one of the most turbulent matches of the tournament, Sinner, who himself suffered a wrist injury, edged Draper out 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-2 in a three-hour, three-minute psychodrama to reach the US Open final for the first time in his career. He will play USA's Taylor Fritz, who beat his compatriot Frances Tiafoe over five sets in Friday's other semi-final.

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