Rublev will play Alex De Minaur or Daniil Medvedev in the quarter-finals. Rublev has made eight grand slam quarter-finals in his career … and lost all of them. Join us later this week to see if he can break the curse. For now, we’ll sign off for the day but will have reports from this evening’s matches later.
Rublev beats Draper 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. I thought Draper would take this one at the start of the day. But the heat – and lingering fitness issues – proved too much. When he’s fully fit he should go deep in the majors on a regular basis – and he’s still only 21. As for Rublev, he played really well today and deserves his place in the quarter-finals, his fourth appearance in the last eight at the US Open.
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